40-Hour Specialized Certificate in Designing Custom Courses
Issued by
Bridge Education Group
The Bridge Specialized TEFL/TESOL certificate in Designing Custom Courses is a 10-unit, interactive online program. Earners of this badge are able to identify the requisites of a needs-based, specialized ESP syllabus; examine the theories that develop an ESP syllabus that reflect appropriate content material based on a research based second language acquisition framework; evaluate appropriate needs-based and course assessment tools; design a lesson plan that links to the needs of students.
- Type Certification
- Level Advanced
- Time Months
Skills
- 21st Century Teaching Practices
- Classroom Instruction
- Classroom Management Strategies
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Curriculum Design
- Educational Technology
- English For Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Language Instruction
- Learning Styles
- Lesson Planning
- Needs Analysis
- Preparing An Effective Lesson
- Reflective Teaching
- Research-based Instruction
- TEFL
- TESOL
Earning Criteria
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Complete the full course program on effective, current methodology for designing and implementing curriculum for ESP (English for Specific Purposes) courses and students.
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Receive an accumulative score of 70% or higher by completing 2 graded assignments and 1 final exam.
Standards
Bridge Education Group is accredited by ACCET (Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training), a US Government Department of Education recognized agency and has over 20 years of experience in language teaching and teacher training. This program has been reviewed and adheres to ACCET’s standards, policies, and procedures.
For ACCET accredited BridgeTEFL courses, successful trainees earn one Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for every 10 hours of TEFL course instruction.