Thorn Learning supports the British Council’s TeachingEnglish teacher educator offer through website coordination, content development and webinar management, helping ensure that professional development resources remain current, accessible and aligned with the Continuing Professional Development framework for teacher educators.
Project overview
TeachingEnglish provides professional development resources, webinars, courses and publications for teacher educators worldwide. Thorn Learning supports the ongoing development of this offer by coordinating teacher educator content on the TeachingEnglish website and supporting the delivery of the monthly webinar programme.
The project focuses on reviewing, updating and expanding content for teacher educators, ensuring alignment with the British Council’s CPD framework for teacher educators and wider TeachingEnglish content strategy. Alongside website coordination, the role supports the planning, quality assurance and delivery of live webinar events for a global audience of teacher educators.
How we worked with the client
Şirin Soyöz Yılmaz works closely with the TeachingEnglish website and webinar teams to review content, support speakers, coordinate events and maintain high-quality online professional development resources. Sangeeta Sathe provides additional support with content development and Drupal website editing where required.
The project involves:
- Updating and improving existing teacher educator content.
- Reviewing and editing new website content.
- Creating articles and resources within the Drupal 10 platform.
- Supporting the development of new teacher educator resources.
- Coordinating monthly webinar events.
- Managing communications with speakers and presenters.
- Quality assuring presentations and webinar content.
- Moderating and hosting webinar sessions.
- Supporting webinar programming and call-for-speaker processes.
- Analysing attendance and feedback data to inform future development.
The project combines content development, editorial support, quality assurance and event management to help ensure that TeachingEnglish resources continue to meet the needs of teacher educators working in a wide range of contexts.
Services and standards
Website coordination, webinar coordination, content editing, Drupal content management, quality assurance, event moderation and professional development resource development.
Supporting the development of content aligned with the British Council’s Continuing Professional Development framework for teacher educators.
Compliance with TeachingEnglish editorial, brand and accessibility standards, including collaboration on resources compliant with the European Accessibility Act and accessible digital design practices.
Main outputs
- Updated and refreshed teacher educator website content
- New teacher educator articles and professional development resources.
- Drupal 10 content creation and publishing.
- Monthly teacher educator webinars.
- Webinar speaker support, briefing and quality assurance.
- Webinar moderation and hosting.
- Attendance, participation and feedback reporting.
- Support for annual speaker recruitment and webinar programming.
Learn more
Teacher educator professional development
Team and contributors
Website coordination, webinar coordination and quality assurance: Şirin Soyöz Yılmaz
Content development, Drupal editing and webinar moderation support: Sangeeta Sathe
