Professional Development

New to working in an international context or already involved in a school partnership? You can benefit from our Connecting Classrooms professional learning opportunities. Our free courses support schools to embed global citizenship and international learning in the classroom and help develop ICT and English skills.

Benefit from sharing experience and knowledge with colleagues in face to face workshops or learn at your own pace at a convenient time with our online courses.

Connecting Classrooms workshops and online courses provide an ideal opportunity for teachers to share experiences, increase knowledge, discover new ways of doing things and inspire one another.

Teachers return to their classroom with renewed enthusiasm and a host of new ideas to involve more of their colleagues and wider school communities.

“… the quality of the practical activities ensured that they will be really useful and adaptable in school for staff, pupils and parents as well as relevant to our partner school.”UK teacher.

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Online courses

Please note: The Connecting Classrooms Professional Learning Site is currently undergoing essential maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience. Please e-mail schools@britishcouncil.org if you would like to be notified when it is available again. Thank you for your patience.

The Connecting Classrooms Professional Learning Site offers free online courses for teachers in global citizenship, ICT and English for international exchange and are available wherever you are in the world! Courses help teachers develop their own knowledge and skills and are packed full with classroom resources and practise that can be used with students and shared with fellow teachers and partner schools.

Click here to visit the Professional Learning Site and enrol in courses now.

Face to face workshops

Connecting Classrooms offers free face to face workshops for teachers in global citizenship and ICT for international exchange in over 40 countries globally. These courses complement the above online courses, are delivered by expert trainers and provided a fantastic opportunity to meet and learn with fellow teachers in your area.

Click here to visit the face to face courses page for full details.