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.
Intrapersonal intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence is one of the many types of intelligence described in multiple intelligence theory.
Intrinsic motivation
Intrinsic motivation is a motivation to learn that comes from an internal force such as interest in language learning or the desire for further personal development in general.
Intrusion
Intrusion is a feature of connected speech.
Jigsaw
A jigsaw listening or reading activity is an information gap exercise.
Jumble activity
In a jumble activity learners need to put sentences or paragraphs from a text, or pictures illustrating a text, into the correct order.
Key points
The key points of a spoken or written text are the most important points.
Kinesics
Kinesics is the study of non-verbal communication achieved by movement of the body.
L1
L1 is a speaker’s first language. L2 is the second, L3 the third etc.
Labial
A labial consonant is produced by using your lips.
Language Acquisition Device
The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is part of Chomsky’s acquisition hypothesis.