Continuing Professional Development for Teachers

Continuing Professional Development
Routes to excellence
Paul Woods, British Council
Regional English Manager,
Argentina

Continuing Professional Development Framework
What has been your pathway of development as a teacher of
English?
What kinds of development opportunity have been significant to you
at different stages of your career?
How do you keep making progress?
The framework helps teachers to articulate answers to these
questions by providing a common way of talking about the stages of
their careers and by mapping relevant training, resources, networks
and other development opportunities to these stages

What has been your pathway?
Reflections
INITIAL
TRAINING
FIRST
TEACHING
JOB
Development
activity
Reflections
Development
activity
SECOND
TEACHING
JOB
Development
activity
Reflections

Using the CPD framework

What activities have been useful?
• In the early stages of your career?
• At later stages in your career?

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Recording your CPD
My Continual Professional Development Log
Professional development courses I have attended
Conferences / workshops I have attended
Journal articles I have read
Books I have read
Internet resources I have found useful
Thoughts and ideas from colleagues and peers
Reflection – my thoughts and ideas on my own teaching
Action research projects
Talks / workshops I have given
Papers / books I intend to write

Professional development courses I have attended
Dates Course title Description /
impressions
Most important
things I learnt
Action I intend
to take
Done
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Useful
contacts list
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Journal articles I have read
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reference details
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reading
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Books I have read
Full reference
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impressions
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Internet resources I have found useful
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accessed
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Description /
impressions
Why is this
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Action I
intend to
take
Done
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Handbook Contents
• Why Continuing Professional Development?
• What is Continuing Professional Development?
• Types of Continuing Professional Development activity
• The British Council’s Continuing Professional Development
framework
• Managing your staff at the different stages of their development:
• Managing your own Continuing Professional Development as a
manager
• The British Council’s Continuing Professional Development portal
for UK ELT
• Developing a Continuing Professional Development policy for your
learning centre

Conferences
Groups
Magazines
Materials
Membership
Mentoring
Observation
Publishers
Reflection
Research
Specialisation
Training
Workshops

1 Starting A trainee teacher of English taking initial
training (or an unqualified but practising
teacher of English)
At this stage:
You are studying for an initial teaching
qualification
You are intending to become a teacher
of English, at primary, general
secondary, vocational, higher school or
in the private language school sector
So far you have limited practical
teaching experience
Find articles on www.teachingenglish.org.uk
to help write assignments
Try the Language Assistants website for
inexperienced teachers of English
Observe and talk to experienced teachers of
English

Starting
Starting

2 Newly-qualified A qualified teacher of English in the first two
years of practice
At this stage:
You have an initial qualification
You work in a primary, general
secondary, vocational or higher
school, or in the private language
school sector
You have no more than two years’
full-time experience
You may be working towards full
accreditation as a teacher of English
Use the lesson plans on
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
Join your local English teachers’ association
and participate in their community

Newly qualified

“Your lesson plans
and ideas are
wonderful. I love
this website. I have
recommended it to
many of my
friends!”
(Korea)
“The activities
look awesome
for my EAL
class…”
(Malaysia)

3 Developing A practising qualified teacher of English with
more than two years of experience, and
needs to develop essential skills
At this stage:
You have an initial teaching
qualification and have completed at
least two years’ full-time teaching
You want further training and
development in essential teaching skills
You may not have done much CPD
activity previously
Sign up for webinars at
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/webinars
Look at our LearnEnglish website for your
own language improvement or for activities
for your learners
Join your local English teachers’ association
and participate in their conferences

4 Proficient An experienced qualified teacher of English with
strong all-round knowledge and skills
You demonstrate confidence
and good practice in your
English teaching.
You are active in your own CPD
You have an initial English
teaching qualification and may
be working towards a further
qualification as a teacher of
English
Read articles at
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles
Subscribe to online newsletters eg, Humanising
Language Teaching, http://www.hltmag.co.uk/
Help run an event for other teachers

5 Advanced A highly experienced qualified teacher, who
may also be starting to take on specialist roles
You are recognised by other teachers as
a good practitioner
You may be mentoring or advising other
teachers
You may be preparing through study or
training for a more specialist role, such
as teacher trainer, materials
development or management
Carry out classroom research,
Read books and articles in specialist areas
Lead workshops for other teachers

6 Specialist In leading and advising roles, as teacher trainer,
manager, materials writer, researcher or ELT adviser
You may be working in one of
these roles:
Teacher trainer
Materials writer
Syllabus and curriculum
developer
Head of department/director
Testing expert
Adviser on ELT issues (primary,
secondary, vocational etc.)
Researcher
Use the e-books on TeachingEnglish
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications
for higher level study
Use the ELT research directory to identify relevant
research
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/elt-research
Join a professional association.

The Framework and British Council courses
Stages Primary Secondary General
1 Starting TKT Essentials
2 Newly-qualified
3 Developing Primary
Essentials
Certificate in
Secondary
English
Language
Teaching
CLIL Essentials
Learning Technologies
Teaching Speaking
In-service TD workshops
4 Proficient CiSELT 2 Learning Technologies 2
5 Advanced Trainer Development
Course

English Language Improvement for Teachers
Stages
1 Starting
English for Teaching 1
Classroom Language
2 Newly-qualified
3 Developing
4 Proficient

TeachingEnglish CiSELT
 Inset for Secondary
teachers B1 level
 48 hours of materials
 Flexible delivery –
F2F or online
 Intensive or extensive

TeachingEnglish Classroom Language
 Stages 2 and 3 (A2)
 10 3-hour workshops
 For F2F delivery
 Also includes materials for
trainers/mentors

TeachingEnglish CLIL Essentials
 For primary and
secondary teachers at
Stages 3-4 who teach
other subjects in English
 20 workshops
 F2F or online
 Topics based on
Cambridge TKT CLIL

TeachingEnglish English for Teaching 1 and 2
 Part 1 takes teachers
fromA2 to B1
 18 modules
 Each 7 hours content
 F2F or online
 Develops communicative,
reflective, learner-centred
teaching skills
 Part 2 takes participants
from B1 to B2 on the CEF
 120 hours content

TeachingEnglish Steps to Success
 For teachers at stage
2
 100% self access
 Focus on
methodology, lesson
planning and
assessment
 Focus on
communicative
learner centred
teaching

TeachingEnglish Mentoring Skills Course
 For teachers at Stage 4
 Prepares for taking on a
mentoring role
 5 x 3 hour workshops

TeachingEnglish Primary Essentials
 A development course for
teachers of children aged 7
– 11, at Stage 2
 Online course with a
moderator
 Modules include readings,
videos, audio, interactive
exercises, forums
 Each module takes 6 hours
and the course lasts for 12
weeks

TeachingEnglish TKT Essentials
 For trainee and newly
qualified teachers (Stages 1
& 2)
 Basic theory of CLT
 Online or F2F
 3 modules, divided into 34
units, each 90 minutes
 Suitable as preparation for
the Cambridge TKT exam

TeachingEnglish Trainer Development Course
 Stages 4 -6 for teachers
wanting to become
trainers, or to update their
skills
 6 workshops of 3-4 hours
 Microteaching is a key
element

TeachingEnglish Learning Technologies for the
Classroom
 Covers aspects of using
technology eg evaluating and
using web resources, online
safety
 Suitable for teachers at Stages 2
– 4
 Available online and F2F

TeachingEnglish Teacher’s Journal
 Suitable for teachers at any
stage
 Enables them to keep a
record of their professional
work, recording events and
reflections

TeachingEnglish Teaching Speaking
 A video based course to
help with teaching
speaking skills
 Suitable for teachers up to
Stage 3 (Developing)
 Consists of DVD, study
book and trainers notes
 Suitable as a taught
course of for self study
 Version with Spanish
subtitles available

TeachingEnglish TKT

How is the British Council presenting this offer?
We offer a teacher training workshop “Lifelong Learning with the
CPD” – available locally in Chile.
English Agenda website
http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/continuing-professional-development
•Stages and pathways for development at each stage
•Online training resources
•Printable materials supporting teacher development

For more go to www.teachingenglish.org.uk

Thank you!
Paul Woods
Regional English Adviser
paul.woods@britishcouncil.org.ar
https://www.facebook.com/rphwoods

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