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Professional development for teachers

Here you’ll find a wide range of free, self-access training and resources designed to help you build the skills and knowledge you need as an English teacher.

All TeachingEnglish professional development resources are aligned with the British Council Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teachers, to help you plan your learning and develop the areas most relevant to your professional growth.

You can explore resources in a way that suits your goals:
- by professional practices – to focus on specific areas of teaching where you want to deepen your skills and expertise
- by professional development levels – to find resources matched to your training and experience and see how they can help you progress within each area.

Each resource includes a timer icon to show how much time you’ll need, helping you plan your learning effectively.

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Intensive reading

Intensive reading involves learners reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks.

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Interaction patterns

In ELT interaction patterns are the different ways learners and the teacher can interact in the class.

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Interactional

Interactional language is the language we use to build and maintain relationships.

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Interactive Whiteboard - IWB

The Interactive White Blackboard, or IWB, is a large interactive display attached to a computer and a projector.

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Intercultural communicative competence

Intercultural communicative competence, or ICC, refers to the ability to understand cultures, including your own, and use this understanding to communicate with people from other cultures successfully.

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Interlanguage

Interlanguage is the learner’s current version of the language they are learning.

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Interlocutor

The interlocutor is a person who is actively involved in a conversation.

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Internalisation

Internalisation is the process of learning something so that it can be used as the basis for production.

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Intonation

Intonation is the way the pitch of a speaker’s voice goes up or down as they speak.

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Intransitive

Intransitive verbs do not have a direct object.