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.

Exploiting digital video for language development

Get some new ideas on how to exploit digital video with your students in this webinar recording presented by ELTons award winning author, Nik Peachey.

Mooveez: Teaching with feature films made easy

In this webinar recording, Martina Limburg Loučková presents the Mooveez app and explores various ways of learning and teaching English through films. The Mooveez app was winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Digital Innovation.

Building sustainability into an EAP course

In this webinar, we discuss Develop EAP: A Sustainable Academic English Skills Course, winner of the 2017 British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Learner Resources.

Teaching for all: how teacher educators can work with teachers to unlock learning potential in all our learners

In this webinar recording Phil Dexter presents some different models of inclusion and identifies the skills, knowledge and understanding that can equip teacher educators in working with teachers in creating more inclusive classrooms and schools.

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David Crabtree: Developing a whole school approach to Special Educational Needs, from policy to practice

Given the breadth of learning needs in any classroom, how can schools best develop policies and practice to respond to this diversity? This webinar demonstrates how to develop a whole school approach to SEN, from policy to practice.

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Loraine Kennedy: Coaching and mentoring skills for ELT

Whether you are a teacher, a teacher trainer or an ELT manager, this highly relevant session provides a summary of both coaching and mentoring skills, which can be used to help people achieve their language learning goals, professional development objectives, and/or career ambitions.

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