continuing professional development for teachers

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


What has been your pathway?

INITIALTRAINING

FIRST TEACHING

JOB

Development activity

Reflections


ReflectionsSECOND

TEACHING JOB


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 LogProfessional development courses I have attendedConferences / workshops I have attendedJournal articles I have readBooks I have readInternet resources I have found usefulThoughts and ideas from colleagues and peersReflection – my thoughts and ideas on my own teachingAction research projectsTalks / workshops I have givenPapers / 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?

Useful contacts list

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Conferences / workshops I have attended

Dates Conference title

Description / impressions

Most important things I learnt

Action I intend to take

Done?

Useful contacts list

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Full article reference details

Summary / abstract

My comments Useful quotes Page Follow-up reading

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Author:Article title:Journal title:Journal vol/no:Year:Pages:

Journal articles I have read


Full referenceDescription / impressions

My comments Most useful sections

Useful quotes Page

Author(s):Editor(s):Book title:Publisher:Year:

Pages:


Pages:


Pages:

Books I have read


Internet resources I have found useful

URLDate

accessedWhat kind of resource

is this?

Description / impressions

Why is this useful?

Action I intend to

take

Done?

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development.htm

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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

GroupsGroups

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

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


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

Mentoring Skills Course

6 Specialist Projects, materials development, teacher training


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


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


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

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/rphwoods

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