Cambridge English Teaching Framework

See where you are in your development – and think about where you want to go next – with the Cambridge English Teaching Framework.

All of our teaching qualifications are linked to the framework – it is designed to help you think about the skills you have and the skills you would like to develop. By using the framework, you can:

• identify where you are in your development
• plan where you would like to be
• identify what you can do to get there.

Framework categories, stages and resources

There are five categories of teaching knowledge and skills – each category describes the key competencies for effective teaching at each stage. Each category has four stages of teacher competency: Foundation, Developing, Proficient and Expert.

We have a range of resources and materials to help you improve in each category, so you can start to plan your career development.

Learning and the Learner

This category looks at your understanding of key language learning theories and concepts, your awareness of different learning preferences, and your ability to apply this understanding to plan and facilitate language learning.

Developing

• Have a reasonable understanding of many key language learning concepts and theories and have started to use some of the terms.
• Have started to demonstrate in their planning some grasp of connections between the concepts/theories and their own learners’ learning.