The English Training Centre

The English Training Centre (ETC) offers fully accredited TESOL certificate courses by distance learning. To date, they have trained over 3,000 teachers. 

Their highly successful 150-hour and 250-hour certificates are accredited by ACTDEC (Accreditation Council for TESOL Distance Education Courses). Both of these courses give you the skills needed to become a successful English language teacher, plus an internationally recognised certificate.

 

Their 70-hour course is an introduction to TESOL/TEFL and is ideal for people going abroad for a short period.

 

Optional observed teaching practice can be arranged through the ACTDEC Teaching Practice Portfolio Scheme. (www.englishtc.co.uk/accreditation)

 

They also offer a certificate course in Teaching Business English, accredited by the College of Teachers based at the Institute of Education, the University of London.

 

You will have an experienced personal tutor who will provide comprehensive feedback on all assignments and full support throughout the course. To read more about this, go to www.englishtc.co.uk/support

 

They are currently offering a free 100-page Grammar Guide with all their courses and a teaching resource book from the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series.

 

They can provide guaranteed teaching placements in China and Korea for all TESOL qualified teachers. They also provide support in finding teaching posts in other countries. For more information look at www.englishtc.co.uk/tesol-career-opportunities .

 

Some comments from their students:

"I found this course very challenging and with excellent assignments and tasks in each of the modules. I enjoyed the course and really valued the feedback from my tutor. I have gained valuable knowledge of TESOL which I am certain will be a great asset in the future."
Jacqueline Provan

 

"I wish to thank you for this fantastic course. The entire content has helped me in my teaching career. Because I was already teaching at the time of the course, I was able to directly apply everything I learnt. My tutor was excellent and his feedback was always constructive."
Kay Jones - Italy

 

"The most remarkable thing about this course was the standard of support and feedback from my tutor which far surpassed anything I could have hoped for from an online course. I expected minimal interaction, but the standard of feedback was superb! It certainly made the course a lot more enjoyable and simple knowing that my tutor was only an email away! I found the content of the course fantastic. Extremely thorough and easy to use."
Emma Manley - France

 

The English Training Centre in collaboration with World Youth International

In addition to providing English teaching programs, ETC is also proud to be working with World Youth International Australia (WYI) to offer you the chance to live and work in developing countries around the world.

 

WYI is an international development organisation founded in 1988 and provides support to over 60,000 children each year in Kenya, Nepal, Peru and China.

 

If you are over 20, WYI can offer you a range of programmes and styles of placements in various countries. This gives you the opportunity to travel to a developing country and volunteer in a meaningful way, taking part in community development or teaching service projects.

 

WYI works with local communities on development projects and has recently opened the WYI community school in Nepal, which currently has over 350 students. In addition, they have established two magnificent children's homes in Nepal and Kenya.

WYI is a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) code, an approved AusAID organisation and registered with the Australian Department of Education.
 

OSP Community Placement
These exciting programs are designed to meet your individual needs - a program where you tell them which country you would like to travel to, your starting and completion dates, the length of your placement and the style of placement you wish to take on.

OSP Teaching Placement
WYI offers you the chance to work for one or more semesters as an English Teacher along with an array of other subjects in a developing country.