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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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Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Contributing to the profession

Making the transition from teacher to teacher educator

Watch a recording of this discussion forum with Desislava Zareva, Nelson Arditto, Cristiana Osan, Teodora Naiba and Ellen Darling at the World Teachers’ Day web conference 2019.

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Assessing learning

Teacher cognition and assessment

This free training module provides an overview of language teacher cognition and its relationship to assessment. We discuss how assessment can be used to support the learning process.