Welcome!

In this video Claire Ross and Suzanne Mordue welcome you to the course and tell you what’s in store in the weeks ahead.

Over the next four weeks, we’ll look at what you can do to make your lessons great, to enable you to develop the skills and practices you need for your continuing professional development (CPD). Each week focuses on a different topic: understanding your learners, planning lessons and courses, managing the lesson and managing resources.

You will also have the chance to ask the educators questions, starting with a Facebook Live broadcast this week. You’ll find details of other events later on in the course.

We’ve included a glossary of terms commonly used to talk about English language teaching. If you see a word in pink, click on it to find the definition in the glossary.

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Introduce yourself

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• Who you are
• Where you are
• Why you’ve joined this course

Click the pink ‘Comments’ link at the bottom of this page to read what other learners have said, then post a short comment of your own to tell us about yourself.

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Your progress

The pink button, at the bottom of every step, helps you to keep track of which steps you’ve done. Any steps you’ve completed will turn blue. You can check your progress by clicking the Progress button at the top of the page. This tells you what percentage of the course steps you’ve marked as complete.

Well done, you’ve reached the end of this step. Now click the pink Mark as complete button below, then click Next to move on.