COTE [UK] : The Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English, an internationally recognized certificate of Cambridge University, U.K. offers a unique opportunity to teachers with at least one year teaching experience, and with little or no previous training to become familiar with developments in methodology and up-grade their language and teaching skills. There are 150 contact hours, spread over a period of one year with one intensive training session during the summer and a series of seminars held on 20 Saturdays during the year. Trainees not only observe their tutors, and peers in classrooms but are also observed and guided by their tutors. They also do written assignments as part of their course. 

PTTC [Karachi only] : The Practical Teacher Training Course workshop sessions are organized during vacations to enable full-time teachers to attend this course without having to take time off from their work. The two workshop sessions are held during summer and winter breaks (Tier 1 and Tier 2 respectively). The second important feature of this programme is that, after introducing the techniques and ideas of teaching English more effectively through direct teaching in the workshop sessions, the participants are encouraged to apply them in the reality of their own classrooms. They are then required to report on these experiences in the form of written assignments. These assignments then form the basis of evaluation for this course. The majority of teachers who have attended this course in previous years have had a major rise in their careers. Some of the trainees are now acting as language consultants for other teachers in their schools. 

Short Term Courses : These courses are designed specially for teachers who cannot participate in longer training programmes but feel the need for training in any one particular area such as testing or questioning skills in the classroom. The short term courses are held as per announcement. 

Academic Sessions (Monthly Activity) : SPELT organises this training programme in all chapters for teachers who want to keep up-to-date with the theory and practice of teaching English throughout their careers. 
This is a monthly programme in coordination with British Council, Karachi of a free two-hour workshop held on a fixed day each month. (In Karachi, the Academic Session is open to all teachers of English (both SPELT members and non-members). It aims to provide teachers with an on-going programme of professional development. Being largely a participatory session, it provides teachers opportunities for discussion and sharing of ideas on a wide range of issues with interested colleagues. 
 

British Council / SPELT Research Project: SPELT has recently completed a one year project in collaboration with the British Council, Karachi. Five groups of researchers investigated different classroom issues under the supervision of Dr. Fauzia Shamim, University of Karachi. Dr. Adrian Holliday, Christ Church College, Canterbury, U.K., was the external consultant for this project. The on-board Research Coordinator Erum Imran conducted a base-line study on the ELT work done so far in Pakistan. 

Tailor Made Professional Development Programme (TMPD): SPELT, the affiliate selected from around the world by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), a U.S. based International Forum of English Language, to pilot the Tailor Made Professional Development Programme (TMPD) June 1999 - September 2000. 23 Researchers are currently looking into various exciting classroom puzzles, working with Dr. Kathryn Riley, the TESOL Consultant.