Professional development pathways

This series provides ready-made pathways of professional development resources for English teachers. Choose a pathway below to help you develop your knowledge and skills in a particular area of English language teaching.    

The topics are based on the practices in the British Council’s Continuing Professional Development framework.

How can you use our professional development pathways? 

For each pathway, we’ve given you eight to ten resources designed to deepen your knowledge and develop your skills in this area. You will find a variety of content types including videos, podcast episodes and articles. Each pathway also includes a workbook to help you reflect on your practice and develop further in this area. 

Choose a pathway to get started
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Pathways: Understanding your context

Explore free tools and resources carefully chosen to help you understand your context better in order to meet your learners' diverse needs and objectives. 

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Pathways: AI in language teaching

Use this ready-made pathway of resources to gain the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to effectively integrate AI into your teaching.

Research and insight

Browse fascinating case studies, research papers, publications and books by researchers and ELT experts from around the world.

See our publications, research and insight