SIT TESOL Certificate

The SIT Graduate Institute at World Learning has a 55 year history of providing quality programs in teacher growth and development. The Institute for Collaborative Learning (I4CL), has been a licensed provider of courses from The SIT Graduate Institute since 2004. We have collaborated in offering face-to-face, blended and virtual courses and over 1800 educators from more than 20 countries have taken this course and received the certificate at I4CL (formerly known as Centro Espiral Mana).

World Learning's SIT TESOL Certificate Course at the Institute for Collaborative Learning is a 180-hour course that provides participants with professional knowledge and skills in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as well as tools for their own reflection and growth as teachers. The innovative course curriculum was designed by SIT faculty and is based on humanistic, experiential, and progressive teaching. The SIT TESOL Certificate is recognized worldwide.

The course provides practical training through teaching demonstrations, lesson planning and analysis, and practice teaching and feedback. Participants develop skills in teaching, speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and culture. The course begins with a brief look at second language acquisition through the experience of being a learner. Participants then examine specific teaching areas each day, which they apply in their daily practice teaching of adult ESOL learners. Participants gain skills in analysis through examining their lessons with SIT trainers.

The SIT TESOL Certificate focuses on three main areas:

Learning: Participants engage in a language-learning experience in order to explore the relationship between language learning, teaching, and aspects of second language acquisition from the point of view of the learner. This experience provides the foundation for the examination of teaching practices.

Teaching: Participants examine the theory and practice of planning, teaching, grammar, culture, and assessing lessons in the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) through experiential activities, teaching demonstrations, discussions, lesson planning, materials development, and readings.

Classroom practices: Participants put their new knowledge and skills into practice through daily teaching sessions. Trainers observe and facilitate feedback sessions after these lessons. Participants learn to reflect on and assess their own teaching as well as to examine the teaching of their peers.