Citizens TESOL

Yes! When you become a Partner Location with our TESOL program, we will actively promote your location to our entire network of teachers and graduates. And we will help you build a high-quality landing page on our main website that we'll use for recruiting teachers and connecting them with your location.

If you want to be a teacher who inspires students in your community or around the world, then this course is for you! This course is for training and certifying professional English teachers, specifically, but the skills practiced in this course transfer to all kinds of teaching, ministry, and leadership. If you or your teachers are looking for a way to support yourselves overseas so you can travel, then this course is for you too! Many of our graduates support themselves with paid teaching positions in schools and universities, while others have become ‘digital nomads’ teaching English online. And many other graduates use their skills as volunteers who are making a difference every day in whatever classroom or space they find themselves in.

You get to decide! There is a lot of flexibility when it comes to interacting with the course and completing assignments. This course is self-paced in many ways, and this means that teachers can access the course platform at any time during the week. Your teachers can complete their studies whenever they have free time to do so, according to their preferences or the scheduling needs of your location. If they should to do their work in the morning with a nice cup of coffee, go for it! At night with some cozy lighting and their favorite study music? That works too!

That depends on your location and how much time you can give them each week. This course is designed with working or part-time students in mind, and our goal is to make it accessible to students who volunteer their time elsewhere (including other work duties at your location), and for those who have jobs, have families, or have other responsibilities. Students can choose to complete the course in a few weeks or several months. In order to finish the course in 12 weeks, you should anticipate at least 10-15 hours of coursework each week. Students who need to take additional time to complete the course may do so, and they can finish the course in 12 months by working an average of 3 hours per week.

There are many different kinds of online courses, but we have strived to make this particular course as engaging and interactive as possible. Together, our staff team has decades of experience with traditional face-to-face courses and online courses at the professional and university level. Whenever possible, we’ve included the same kind of interactive activities in this online course that students enjoy in our more traditional face-to-face TESOL courses. And we can also give you resources and new ideas for facilitating activities and discussions with teachers at your location, to aid their professional development and make it 'come alive.'

Each module consists of a wide variety of content that includes: short videos and reading assignments on each topic, interactive discussions, ungraded exercises to help participants check their own understanding, and graded projects to apply what they're learning and put it into practice.

Anyone wishing to take the course must be 17 years of age and have completed year ten of secondary school. There are no other academic requirements for attending TESOL. (Students who do not yet meet these requirements can still access the course and complete the modules, but may not receive full credit until they have met the age and academic requirements.)

No. Many of the teachers in our program are not native speakers of English. If you are hoping to recruit native speakers or non-native speakers, then we can certainly help you recruit and train both. We feel that some of the best teachers are those who speak multiple languages, and we are very intentional to honor and support all types of students and teachers. If your teachers can speak and write in English and be understood by others, then they should be able to do well in the TESOL course.