120-Hour TESOL Course for Online English Teachers
The 2024 Guide to Teaching English Online
Description
Welcome to the 2024 edition of the ELT 1010: 120-Hour TESOL Course for Online English Teachers!
This 120-TESOL for Online English Teachers Course is informed by ground-breaking research in the field of applied linguistics, by the experiences of dozens of trained and qualified professional English teachers and by the growing need to make online language teaching practical, relevant, engaging and learner-centered.
If you're getting started online, you've come to the right place.
If you'd like to teach in person, you've come to the right place.
If you have years of experience and wish to upskill, you've come to the right place.
This course is the only language teacher certification course which provides you with the following:
40 modules focusing not only on building knowledge of language learning, language acquisition and teaching methodology, but also on employability, career-building, networking and professional development.
25 hours of video lectures, each accompanied by 350 PPT slides which you may download and follow at your own pace.
Post-module quizzes and activities to help ensure comprehension.
Content which has been planned and created by a tightly-knit and growing group of current and former freelance online language teachers who know your exact experiences (and potential experiences) firsthand.
Access to a language teacher community where you could network and grow alongside other educators.
500+ FREE language teaching resources, including guides, tutorials, worksheets, rubrics, course outlines and more.
A certificate of completion.
Coupons for other language teacher professional development courses which allow you to continue building your skills, knowledge and experience.
An opportunity for a practicum / teacher placement.
This course is packed with extensive content, including made-from-scratch materials, pedagogically-informed research articles and comprehensive videos.
Topics Include...
Finding, using and creating materials
Creating and planning engaging lessons with digital tools
Gaining employment on platforms and by institutions
Teacher professionalization and long-term success
Overview and mitigation of key challenges
Much, much more!
A qualified instructor be with you every step of the way. This is all you need for long-term success as an online English teacher. Learn and grow in this 120-hour TESOL program. We'll see you in class.
What You Will Learn!
- Increase employability as a language teacher through the development of a professional language teacher e-Portfolio.
- Develop a foundational knowledge of language acquisition and language learning through the learning of approaches and methods in applied linguistics.
- Understand needs of students and develop positive teacher-student relationships.
- Understand how to apply to a language teaching platform (ie. iTalki, Preply) and how to have a successful start on the platform.
- Understand common challenges of teaching languages online and how to solve them.
- Be able to plan and develop English lessons in a research-informed and pedagogically grounded manner.
- Be able to develop a teacher portfolio and teacher philosophy for employment purposes and in order to attract potential students.
- Establish, develop and evaluate teacher beliefs, teaching style and teacher identity.
- Understand how to use various digital tools through guided training.
- Understand key challenges and tot topics in the language teaching community, such as native speakerism.
- Understand different English teaching contexts (IELTS, Conversational, General English) and how to plan for such lessons.
- Learn about how to set up social media profiles to advertise teaching services and to attract students.
- Retrieve hundreds of free materials and resources to aid language teaching and teacher development.
- Learn about opportunities and resources for professional development and furthering one's career.
- Develop of reflective and affective strategies for online language teachers.
- Establish a place in the teacher community and recognize resources for building a Community of Practice (CoP).
Who Should Attend!
- People who would like to teach English online.
- People who would like to teach English in person.
- People who would like to teach languages in addition to English.
- Experienced language teachers who would like to pivot from in-person teaching to online teaching.
- Experienced language teachers who would like to upskill and improve employability.