TeachingEnglish webinar speakers 2025–26
TeachingEnglish is looking for expert teachers and teacher educators from all over the world to give webinars and participate in panel discussion events from April 2025 to March 2026.
Find out more about TeachingEnglish webinars and why you should participate below.
- TeachingEnglish live online events
TeachingEnglish webinars for teachers offer opportunities for our global audience of English teachers to learn from experienced ELT practitioners. The aim is for participants to gain knowledge and skills that they can use in their day-to-day teaching and to advance their careers in English language teaching. The emphasis is on motivation, inspiration and practical ideas for teachers' classrooms and career development. Our live events also offer the chance to share expertise across different countries and regions, and help people stay up-to-date with the latest research and innovations in English language teaching. Find out more about past and upcoming webinar events in Webinars.
- The TeachingEnglish audience
The TeachingEnglish audience is mainly English language teachers working in primary and secondary state schools all over the world. We have smaller numbers working in private or semi-private institutions and EFL language schools. We also have a significant teacher educator audience, including teacher trainers, researchers, managers, materials writers, etc., and a number of pre-service teachers. We know from feedback that our audience really values interactive and practical webinars that offer practical takeaways for the classroom.
- Why participate?
This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with the British Council, showcasing your expertise on a global platform that reaches six million English teachers a year.
You will receive a TeachingEnglish presenter's certificate and benefit from our feedback on your presentation.
You will also have the opportunity to connect with colleagues who are authorities in English language teaching and who may offer you further development opportunities.
We are committed to giving a global platform to diverse voices, especially those of practising teachers from different contexts around the world. Speakers with strong proposals but who have less experience of conference or online speaking may be selected for our webinar speaker mentoring scheme.
If you apply, you will be considered for global TeachingEnglish events as well as regional ones.
How to apply
If you are interested in applying, read the information below for tips about how to plan your webinar and write your proposal. Once you are ready to apply, you will need to submit your application below and include:
- a link to a short webinar proposal video recorded following the guidance in the proposal video guide
- brief biodata for each speaker (max. 100 words)
- your webinar abstract (max. 200 words).
The deadline for applications is 5 January 2025. We look forward to hearing from you!
Planning your webinar
- Planning your webinar
You can apply as an individual presenter or as a collaboration of two people. Please only submit ONE form per webinar proposal.
- Webinar format
Each webinar is one hour in total, including 40–45 minutes for the speaker presentation and 10–15 minutes for audience questions. At the end, the host will come back on camera for an informal chat with the presenter and to answer a selection of audience questions.
- Platform features
Our online events use a 3,000-capacity Zoom Events platform. Within Zoom Events, there is no option for breakout rooms, and participants have cameras and microphones switched off. We engage the audience as much as possible using the chat, poll and reaction features. Participants' questions for the presenter will be saved for the end using the Q&A function. We also stream webinar events via Facebook and share the recordings of sessions on YouTube and the TeachingEnglish website.
- Copyright and safeguarding
Please note the following to ensure that your proposed webinar can be broadcast, recorded and shared publicly.
- All content shared must follow copyright laws and intellectual property rights.
- Do not use any images or videos of your students or colleagues or other people in your slides.
- Consent must be obtained from adults whose persona or stories are going to be shared.
- Planning a successful webinar
Our most important aim is to help our webinar participants in their day-to-day teaching or teacher training work. Consequently, we ask all presenters to ensure that their sessions share classroom examples to illustrate theory in practice. We're looking for practical sessions with ideas and strategies that teachers and teacher educators can apply to their own teaching context. Successful proposals will also include plenty of opportunities for interaction and participation within the webinar. This year, we're looking for webinars that fit the following themes:
Knowing the subject (understanding English language systems and how to teach them)
Understanding and developing your learners
Assessing learning
Planning lessons and courses
Managing the lesson
Using multilingual approaches
Using inclusive practices
Using transferable skills /21st-century skills for learning and life
Using digital technologies.
For a more detailed understanding of these themes, visit https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers
- Inspiration!
Below are links to watch three of our favourite webinars from last year. We highly recommend watching these before you write your proposal to see what a high-quality, interactive webinar looks like.
- Alternative opportunities
On the basis of your webinar proposal, you may be invited to take part in a panel event on a related subject and/or to take part in our mentoring scheme.
- Biodata
Please provide brief biodata for each speaker (max. 100 words) on the form. Please write in the third person and mention where you are from and where you teach. Note that these descriptions will be used to promote your event if you are selected. (See the bottom of any event page in Webinars for teachers for examples.)
- Webinar abstract
Participants will read this abstract to decide whether to attend your talk, so please write in English and please include information about what they will learn. Example sentences:
This workshop will start by taking a look at ...; I will show you how to ...
The next stage of the workshop will look at ...; You will learn how to ...; Finally, we will...
This workshop will give you practical ideas to help you ...
(See 'Session information' on any event page in Webinars for teachers for examples.)