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.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
How to encourage and manage active involvement in group work
Learn tips for encouraging active involvement in group work in low-resource context classrooms with mixed-level learners.
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
How to help learners who need more support
Explore ideas for providing more support to learners who need it, to give them a sense of achievement and increase their confidence levels.
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
How to value and include learners' diverse backgrounds
Explore ideas for valuing and including learners’ diverse backgrounds in multicultural settings, shared by teachers working in low resource contexts.
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
Using multilingual practices
Understanding my context
How should learners' own languages be used in the classroom?
Explore ideas for balancing use of learners’ own language(s) and English in low-resource contexts with low-level learners.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Secondary success stories: Using rhymes to help leaners learn English
Explore ideas for using rhymes to motivate and engage learners, shared by a secondary teacher working in a low-resource school for girls in rural India.
Planning lessons and courses
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Secondary success stories: Helping learners to read and write about poetry
Explore ideas for getting learners to read and write about poetry, shared by a secondary school teacher working in a low resource context.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Getting primary learners interested in learning English
Explore ideas for generating interest in English with a large group of primary pupils, shared by a primary school teacher from India.
Planning lessons and courses
Managing the lesson
Primary success stories: Using role play and free writing to introduce creativity
Explore ideas for using role play and free writing to introduce creativity, shared by a primary school teacher in Pakistan.
Managing the lesson
Managing resources
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Creating a 'garage' school
Find out how a primary teacher in Pakistan created a school for street children in her garage, using only minimal resources.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Involving the whole group in the lesson
Explore ideas for encouraging the involvement of all her learners regardless of their level, shared by a primary school teacher working in a low-resource classroom in India.