Many educational organisations provide opportunities for language training and developing your career in teaching. Follow the links to find out the range of support on offer:

Association for Language Learning
ALL is a membership association for language teachers in the UK. As well as offering training for its members through a local branch network, ALL also hosts the annual Language World conference.

Links into Languages
Links into Languages is a government-funded network of regional centres for the community of language educators in England, delivering professional development courses, support for networking and sharing of good practice as well as the latest information, advice and resources.  A range of courses are available across England designed especially for primary language teachers. 

Open University
Offer the 'Teaching primary languages' distance learning course for teachers, teaching assistants and other primary practitioners who are teaching or preparing to teach primary languages. This course is part of a suite of professional development courses designed to enable school practitioners to link their training directly to classroom practice. Applicants complete the course online using a virtual learning environment. Find out more.

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
The SSAT works to support and develop the specialist schools and academies system by providing professional development events and conferences.

The SSAT also coordinates networks for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Community Languages (Urdu, Panjabi, Turkish) to exchange resources. Users must register for free with the SSAT website to access information.

Training and Development Agency for Schools
The TDA is the national agency and recognised sector body for training and development of school the workforce. Their website provides comprehensive guidance on routes into teaching, including  ITT , TA s and HLTA s and advice for overseas trained teachers.

The TDA also coordinate postgraduate professional development for qualified and newly qualified teachers, heads and leaders as well as running subject extension and enhancement courses. You can search for the full range of training opportunities at: TDA CPD.