Routes to excellenceContinuing Professional Development
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
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What has been your pathway?
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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
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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
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Conferences
GroupsGroups
Magazines
Materials
Membership
Mentoring
Observation
Publishers
Reflection
Research
Specialisation
Training
Workshops
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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
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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
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Newly qualified
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“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)
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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
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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
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Continuing Professional Development Framework5 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
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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.
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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
Mentoring Skills Course
6 Specialist Projects, materials development, teacher training
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English Language Improvement for Teachers
Stages
1 Starting
English for Teaching 1
Classroom Language
English for Teaching 2
English for Teaching 3
2 Newly-qualified
3 Developing
4 Proficient
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TeachingEnglish CiSELT Inset for Secondary
teachers B1 level 48 hours of materials Flexible delivery –
F2F or online Intensive or extensive
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TeachingEnglish Classroom Language Stages 2 and 3 (A2) 10 3-hour workshops For F2F delivery Also includes materials for
trainers/mentors
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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
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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
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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
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TeachingEnglish Mentoring Skills Course For teachers at Stage 4 Prepares for taking on a
mentoring role 5 x 3 hour workshops
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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
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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
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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
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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
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TeachingEnglish Teacher’s Journal Suitable for teachers at any
stage Enables them to keep a
record of their professional work, recording events and reflections
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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 Teaching Speaking
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TeachingEnglish TKT
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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
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For more go to www.teachingenglish.org.uk
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Thank you!
Paul Woods
Regional English Adviser
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