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.
Congruency
Congruency refers to all the parts of something working together; in ELT this means how different elements work together to produce successful communication.
Conjunction
A conjunction is a word used to connect other words and phrases together.
Connected speech
In connected speech, the pronunciation of a word will change depending on the words around it.
Connotation
The connotation of a word is its suggested or emotional meaning, as compared to its literal meaning.
Consciousness-raising
Consciousness-raising, also known as awareness-raising, is part of the process a learner can go through with new language.
Consolidation
Consolidation is a lesson stage where new material is reviewed, and hopefully learning is reinforced. It normally occurs at the end of the lesson.
Consonant cluster
A consonant cluster in a word is a group of consonants with no vowels between them.
Content validity
If a test has content validity then it has been shown to test what it sets out to test.
Content words
Content words are words that have meaning. They can be compared to grammatical words, which are structural.
Contextualisation
Contextualisation is putting language items into a meaningful and real context rather than being treated as isolated items of language for language manipulation practice only.