Our professional learning and development products and services are used by institutions and governments around the world to help teachers at all stages of their careers to build knowledge, skills and confidence. They are underpinned by research, developed by experts and have a practical focus to deliver real results in the classroom.
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Our practical approach helps teachers to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom, delivering real results for their learners. If required our experts can conduct an impact study as part of the teacher development service to help you measure outcomes.
Measurable results
We offer everything from pocket books and short online courses to face-to-face training sessions and fully tailored programmes. So whether you’re looking to upgrade your staffroom library or deliver a comprehensive training programme for teachers in multiple locations, we can help.
Flexible, scalable options
Our books and self-study courses can be used whenever and wherever is convenient, helping your teachers to fit their own learning around supporting their students. And if you choose a tutor-led service, our trainers will work with you to design a schedule that meets your needs.
Development that fits around teaching schedules
Our solutions cover all the key skills your teachers need, plus new and emerging topics to keep them up-to-date with the latest developments in teaching and learning.
Extensive coverage
Our content is authored by experts, underpinned by research and aligned to the Cambridge English Teaching Framework.
Expert insights
Our training services are informed by expert research into effective teacher development, so you can be confident they will deliver measurable, long-term results for your teachers and their learners.
Effective, research-based teacher development
The INSPIRE principles
From recent research, we have identified the seven key principles for successful teacher development. These make up the INSPIRE approach. To find out more, download our white paper Effective professional development: Principles and best practice.
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Impact studies
To ensure that our professional learning and development solutions deliver the results you need, we can conduct impact studies as part of our services. The results demonstrate the positive outcomes of individual programmes and also provide insights into effective teacher development, which can benefit all of our customers.
The Cambridge English Teaching Framework
The Cambridge English Teaching Framework (CETF) describes the knowledge and skills a teacher of English needs.
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Quality assurance
Recent research from the Wellcome Trust identifies three areas of quality assurance for you to consider. The INSPIRE principles which underpin our services can be mapped to these as follows:
Intent is about the intended impact of the professional development programme or activity.
1. Intent
Design considers how the programme or activity design achieves the intended impact, it should be needs-based, in-practice, reflective, collaborative and sustained.
2. Design
Delivery relates to the quality of the delivery, whether it is trainer-led or self-study, and evaluation is important here.
3. Delivery
To support you in assessing the quality of professional development activities, we’ve created this downloadable questionnaire to help when briefing and assessing training providers.
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Watch Karen Momber, Senior Professional Learning and Development Consultant discuss this in more detail.
Our self-study books and online courses, tutor-led training and bespoke services support teachers throughout their whole careers, whether they are trainees, senior teachers, managers or teacher trainers.
Self-study materials
Provide your teachers with access to our self-study materials to help them fit their professional development around supporting their students.
Books for professional learning and development:
Our research-based books are written by experts in their fields to help teachers develop their knowledge and improve classroom practice. They cover all aspects of teacher development and range from short, easy-to-understand introductions to official preparation materials for teaching qualifications, photocopiable resources, classroom activities, reference works and research.
Online teacher development courses
Our online, practical self-study courses provide a flexible way for your teachers to develop their knowledge and skills whenever and wherever is convenient for them.
Tutor-led training
Bespoke training
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eBooks for your institution
If you’d prefer to provide your teachers with professional development eBooks, you’ll find over 125 of our recent and bestselling titles on our institutional eBooks platform, Cambridge Core.
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Choose from over 70 courses covering a wide range of key topics and available in three lengths to meet your teachers’ needs.
2-hour courses provide an introduction to the core knowledge and skills teachers need for effective classroom practice and introduce emerging areas of interest in teaching and learning.
2-hour courses
5-hour and 20-hour online courses provide a more in-depth understanding of key topics.
5-hour and 20-hour online courses
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Our tutor-led services are delivered by experienced Cambridge trainers, who will guide your teachers through their learning and help them to relate the content to your specific context and the needs of their learners.
Teacher development programmes
Our programmes are based on the INSPIRE principles of effective teacher development and delivered by experienced online tutors. They combine 2-hour self-study courses with tutor support to provide comprehensive coverage of key topics with personalised feedback and guidance.
Choose from four teacher development programmes. Download the overview of each to learn more:
Our programmes are delivered by experienced tutors who will guide your teachers through the content of their online courses using videos, webinars and discussion groups.
Expert, contextualised support
We recommend at least 10 teachers in a group so that they can discuss their learning and share experiences with their peers.
Collaborative
We award a Certificate of Completion at the end of the programme.
Teachers can prove their success
Programmes take approximately 35 hours to complete – our tutors will work with you to develop a schedule that meets your needs.
Set your own schedule
Programmes contain input, interactive exercises, tasks, review sections, discussions and support for teachers to apply their learning in the classroom.
Interactive and practical learning
Teaching Learners Communicatively
Teaching in the Contemporary Primary Classroom
Teaching in the Contemporary Classroom
Introduction to Educational Management
If you’re looking for a teacher development programme on a topic that isn’t covered here, we can create a tailored programme for you.
Tailored programmes
If you’re looking for workshops on a topic that isn’t covered here, we can create a tailored programme for you.
We award a Certificate of Completion at the end of the series.
Our workshops have been developed by experts and are delivered by experienced trainers, who will support your teachers to relate the content to their context and learners.
Workshops draw on insights from the latest research, to provide input, practical activities and discussions to help teachers to apply their learning in the classroom.
Research-based practical learning
Each series contains four 75-minute workshops covering the key issues on the series topic.
Comprehensive coverage
Choose from two online professional development workshop series.
Teaching in the online classroom
Online professional development workshop series
Enrol your teachers in our online workshop series to provide them with a thorough understanding of the best practice around key topics in English language teaching, build their confidence and give them practical techniques to use with their learners.
Teaching in the socially distanced classroom
Blended courses for CELT-P and CELT-S
The Certificate in English Language Teaching for Primary (CELT-P) and Certificate in English Language Teaching for Secondary (CELT-S) are practical qualifications that help teachers to develop their teaching skills and confidence. Our preparation courses include 120 hours of online study, plus face-to-face training and assessment to prepare your teachers for their qualification.
Train the trainer
This 30-hour course is designed to help experienced teachers, who have at least five years of teaching experience and a teaching qualification, to deliver effective training and support the professional development of their colleagues. The training covers:
Designing and running workshops
Observing teachers and giving feedback
Planning teacher training courses
The training is available as a 5-week blended or 1-week face-to-face course and attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.
Bespoke training services
Whether you are looking for a single face-to-face training session on a specific topic, or a complete programme to identify and address the development needs of your teachers, we can help.
Tailored training programmes
Our tailored training programmes address the unique professional development needs of your institution, to deliver measurable, long term results. Whether you’ve already identified a specific training requirement, or would like us to help with needs analysis, our teacher development experts will create and deliver customised programmes to ensure your teachers have the knowledge and skills they need to fully support your learners.
Tailored programmes are developed and delivered by our experienced trainers and built on the INSPIRE principles.
Expert support for you and your teachers
Your programme will include a bespoke combination of our online self-study courses, teacher development books, and online or face-to-face tutor-led sessions to provide your teachers with input, practical ideas and contexualised support to apply the learning in their classrooms.
Flexible, practical training
Bespoke programmes can be created for any number of teachers. Whether you need to develop one teacher on a specific topic, or prepare teachers across your country to use a new approach, our tailored programmes will help you achieve your objectives.
Scalable support:
Our trainers will work with you and, where appropriate, your teachers to build a development programme that addresses your unique requirements.
Designed for your specific needs
Programmes will be designed to develop your teachers over time – from three months to a year depending on your requirements.
Sustained development
Face-to-face training sessions
Our experienced trainers will work with you to understand your requirements and develop a course to meet your needs, before visiting your institution to deliver face-to-face sessions.
How your tailored programme will work:
1. Needs analysis
Our trainers will work with you to understand your objectives for the programme, your timescales and unique context.
2. Programme development
3. Programme implementation
4. Programme evaluation
We will design a professional development programme to meet your objectives. The programme will be made up of a customised selection of our self-study materials and/or tutor-led training, which may include: • Online teacher development courses; • Teacher Development Programmes; • Books; • Lesson observations; • Webinars, workshops and other tutor-led support.
Teachers are supported by their trainer to complete their programmes over an agreed period of time.
Trainers will monitor your teachers’ progress throughout the programme and the content, level and type of support provided are adjusted as needed to ensure the programme delivers real, sustainable results.
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Our professional learning and development services are used by governments, institutions and their teachers around the world to develop teaching knowledge, skills and confidence. Read our case studies to learn about our recent projects and discover how we can help you.
Embedding the communicative approach
Principal Tsuyoshi Kudo wanted to support his students to improve their communicative abilities in English. Discover how we worked with Principal Kudo on a programme to embed the communicative approach, one year group at a time, leading to positive results for teachers and their learners.
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at Takatsuki High School, Japan
Our global network of trainers will work with you to ensure that we are providing effective professional development services to meet the needs of your teachers.
Our expert trainers
Matthew Ellman
Matthew Ellman is Professional Learning and Development Manager at Cambridge University Press, helping teachers, institutions and Ministries of Education around the world. He has worked on government education reform projects in Malaysia, Japan and Uzbekistan, and has trained teachers in over 25 countries. Matthew’s research into teacher education won the British Council’s ELT Masters Dissertation Award at the 2018 ELTons. Find him on Twitter at @matthewellman.
Meet the team
Karen Momber is Senior Professional Learning and Development Consultant at Cambridge ELT. She designs professional development programmes for teachers, learning institutions, and Ministries of Education, and is responsible for ELT teacher development publishing. Karen has experience as a teacher, trainer, and academic manager and holds a Diploma in English Language Teaching and an MEd in Educational Technology and ELT.
Karen Momber
Ricardo Morales is an international speaker and teacher trainer who for the past 20 years has been actively involved in digital and online education for different private language institutions in Mexico and Latin America. Alternatively, he has developed training modules and ESP programs for public institutions in Mexico. He is currently the Academic Services Manager at Cambridge University Press and Assessment. Mexico.
Ricardo Morales
Allen Davenport is Professional Learning and Development Manager for ASEAN at Cambridge University Press. He has worked in education for more than two decades as a teacher, training consultant, academic director, and examiner. Allen holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics and a master’s in education. His interests include the development of creativity and how ELT is adapting to meet the changing needs of learners.
Allen Davenport
Nicolas Mayfield is the Teacher Development Manager for Cambridge University Press, Greater China. He has worked in China and across Asia for over a decade teaching, consulting, and preparing custom materials and curriculum. He currently delivers and assesses the CELT-P/S courses for Cambridge University Press China. His interests include Primary education and best practices for the use of technology in and out of the classroom.
Nicolas Mayfield
Andrea Tolve is currently Professional Learning and Development Manager for Cambridge University Press Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and has been working in the ELT world since 1999. She has experience in teaching all levels and age groups in Zagreb and Madrid. She has a Master of Arts in Education (Applied Linguistics) with The Open University.
Andrea Tolve
Laura Moulton is Professional Learning and Development Manager for Cambridge University Press, Turkey. She has been a teacher since early 2000 and a teacher trainer since 2004. She has developed and delivered workshops, plenaries and training sessions at schools, universities and conferences in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and all over Turkey and also delivers training to teacher trainers.
Laura Moulton
Peter has had a long and varied career in English language teaching. He is the author of a range of popular coursebooks for students, including Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language, Introduction to English as a Second Language, and From Teacher to Trainer with Matthew Ellman, all published by Cambridge University Press. Peter is Professional Learning and Development Manager for Cambridge University Press, and his main interest is in teacher learning and development.
Peter Lucantoni
Fabio Galvanini is the Cambridge teacher training lead for Italy. Since 2014 he has been responsible for developing professional development programs and events and providing support, training and guidance to teachers and Schools across the country. He has an MA degree in Asian Studies and Applied Linguistics, and taught English for about 10 years in India, England, Spain and Italy.
Fabio Galvanini
