Professional development
Professional development is vital for all. TeachingEnglish supports your growth in English language teaching, whether you are a teacher, teacher educator, academic manager, researcher or materials writer.
Here you will find free, self-access, online training and resources designed to develop the skills and knowledge you need as an English language professional.
Our professional development resources are organised by audience (teachers or teacher educators), professional practices and professional development level. The professional practices and professional development levels align with the British Council’s Continuing Professional Development Frameworks for teachers and teacher educators. These two unique frameworks, and the professional practices within them, address the skills and knowledge English language professionals need in their day-to-day working lives and throughout their careers.
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Understanding my professional identity
Using inclusive practices
Adopting inclusive practices
Phil Dexter - Implementing good teaching and learning inclusive practices
Phil Dexter talks about equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and how it can be incorporated into continuing professional development.
Planning lessons and courses
Engaging ears, eyes, brains and minds: Authentic listening at every level
Lewis Lansford, co-author of Keynote, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Excellence in Course Innovation, looks at how teachers can help students at every level to engage with authentic input. Using TED Talks, he’ll look at brain science related to listening and offer practical tips for creating success-oriented lessons at any level.
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Planning lessons and courses
Knowing the subject
Assessing learning
Assessment for learning
This article looks at the origin of assessment for learning or formative assessment, its principles and benefits and how it compares to assessment of learning.
Webinar
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding the educational context
Understanding teacher learning
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Alison Barrett - CPD: What’s the Starting Point for Change?
How can we become champions for change in challenging teaching contexts?
Webinar
Understanding teacher learning
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Andy Keedwell and Ruchi Jain - Supporting and developing teacher reflection
Andy Keedwell and Ruchi Jain detail ways that they have encouraged teacher educators to reflect on their teaching and training through face to face training and other CPD activities.
Understanding my context
Sadie Maddocks - An Education System that Works
In this talk, Sadie looks at different successful education systems and discusses what makes them work.
Megha Ahuja: Ensuring teacher training effectiveness through mentoring
Megha Ahuja presents a model implemented in two K-12 schools for supporting and mentoring teachers in order to achieve educational goals.
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding teacher learning
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Briony Beaven - Teacher stories
Briony Beaven explores the practice of telling stories of professional experience as a powerful form of development.
Understanding my professional identity
Understanding my context
Understanding the educational context
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Colin Bangay - Keeping it real. The starting point is where you are!
Colin Bangay looks at teacher education in resource constrained countries.