Future English is a multiyear, multi-country programme, designed and delivered by the British Council. It aims at providing ministries and stakeholders with high quality research and consultancy into English language learning and teaching, enabling them to make informed decisions about the future of education. The programme also uses research to provide ministries and teachers with Continuing Professional Development opportunities that best meet their needs, enabling teachers across the region to grow as practitioners and professionals.
This objective is being fulfilled by offering an online ongoing professional development programme using an innovative Online Teacher Community platform available to English language teachers.
Online Teacher Community is our peer-led online platform for English language teachers.
The platform is a unique, borderless, digital home for thousands of English language teachers across the region, where they can meet each other, share experience and knowledge, access synchronous and asynchronous learning and document their development in a safe space facilitated by trained facilitators.
The platform also enables the teachers to gain integrated access to relevant British Council and other UK ELT sector resources and discuss and share innovation and issues through small and larger communities of practice. There are also Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which allow the teachers to connect with colleagues from all participating countries to deepen their knowledge of a particular area.
The working language of the programme is English.
OTC platform is currently available only to state school teachers. To learn more how you can join the programme, please contact onlineteachercommunity@britishcouncil.org