The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has a wide range of CPD courses and resources to support English delivery.
Our maths CPD offer has been carefully designed to provide solutions to concerns around progress in post-16 English attainment and to develop English practitioners’ subject-specific skills.
We offer CPD courses for English practitioners at all levels and stages of their development including:
We offer both open and in-house CPD delivery models for our extended and short courses.
These courses are for teachers currently teaching GCSE, Functional Skills or ESOL in the Further Education and Skills Sector. They would also be useful for vocational staff delivering T Levels and Apprenticeships with substantial English content.
Courses are delivered online, 2 hours each week over 10 weeks and are also available for delivery in-house.
Prices for CPD courses start at £55 for an individual to book onto our 2-hour open sessions. For an in-house group booking, discounts are available for packages of modules, and prices start from £1045 for 5 hours of online training for up to 15 people – contact us for details.
This CPD course, designed to be similar in difficulty to a Level 5 module, supports practitioners working with Functional Skills English learners. You will explore how to engage learners and undertake assessments to build on their prior learning. It is designed to meet the needs of all parts of the sector, including independent training providers, offender learning and adult and community education
This CPD course, designed to be similar in difficulty to a Level 5 module, will explore how to engage learners and undertake assessment to build on their prior learning. You will experience digital approaches and other effective practices for leading GCSE English courses
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This course explores how teachers can support learners to make decisions and control narrative voice, structure and time for effect in their creative writing.
This course explores the difference between writing for GCSE and Functional Skills. In addition, we look at a range of integrated skills activities which help learners to evaluate their non-fiction writing skills and explore ways in which they can improve and refine specific aspects of their written work.
This interactive course will explore a range of strategies and activities designed to support learners during the formative stages of the writing process.
This course explores some of the key areas of reading that learners on Functional Skills courses find challenging. You will be guided to reflect on examples of common learner errors and consider strategies that could help them to improve.
This course will discuss the importance of effective marking and ways of feeding forward. We will then move onto setting accurate targets for your learners that present sufficient challenges for them with actionable feedback.
This course will explore how to help learners to develop the skills of writing about their reading. We will investigate the much used PEED/L approach and consider and try out other strategies for helping learners to succeed in this area of English.
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This interactive course will explore how to support learners to value English skills and investigate coaching and resilience strategies to support teaching practice and encourage learners to engage.
This course explores English learning activities and looks at how they can be maximised to develop learners’ problem solving and creativity skills.
This session focuses on common barriers for learners with autism, speech and language needs and dyslexia and dyspraxia.
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This interactive course aims to help teachers plan and deliver holistic learning activities that connect English to the learner’s vocational area.
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This interactive course offers an introduction to the key ideas and terminology of post-16 phonics. You will explore important guiding principles to apply to your practice to optimise the influence phonics can have on learners.
This interactive course offers an introduction to the key ideas and terminology of post-16 phonics. You will explore important guiding principles to apply to your practice to optimise the influence phonics can have on learners.
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