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yaco
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:36 am Post subject: TESOL |
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We are entering the murky world of TEFL.
This is my understanding of the current situation
A recognised TEFL certificate requires practical teaching supervision and therefore cannot be completed online.
A TEFL diploma can be completed online.
A Masters in TEFL can be completed online.
Summing up a four week course must have a practical component whilst a 12 or 18 month course has no practical component.
You are a better person than me if you can work this out. |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: Is it worth doing a TESOL Diploma? |
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| Online Diploma courses may be the only option for those working away from their home countries, yet such qualifications will only be considered to be "acceptable" in the world of TESOL if they do have a full-time component whereby there is supervised teaching practice and face-to-face lectures. The syllabus for the Trinity Diploma demands this, so you can't get the Diploma unless you've done the full-time component, which contains an examination and other continuous assessment, including the teaching practice, which is validated by a Trinity-appointed examiner, with whom one has to have a face-to-face interview in order to discuss progress and assessment. |
The above quote applies both to the Trinity College Diploma in TESOL and to its Cambridge (England) equivalent, the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA), but I have to say that I have no idea about any other equivalent diplomas. Certainly, a Diploma programme with a practical, assessed teaching component would carry more weight than one which did not.
As for master's degrees in education, I have read about one particular programme from a university in Canada, which has an optional "internship" route (as opposed to one alternative route that is thesis-based and another which is based entirely on coursework), although the rest of the programme can be conducted entirely online.
I know that, in the UK at least, it would be extremely rare for any EFL teacher to hold any position above "ordinary" teacher in any private language school without the Diploma. However, apart from teaching two summer schools in southern England in 2001, I have spent my entire TEFL career so far in China where such Diplomas are not really "necessary" to get a job teaching English or even a higher position like (acting) director of studies in a private language school.
Although I indicated in my first post in this thread that I intended to undertake the Diploma at some point, I know that it would be little use in my having it if I intended to continue to teach full-time in public-sector institutions in China, where there may be no hierarchy for expatriate teachers, i.e., no "senior teachers" and suchlike. Still, I have another five months or so to decide what I want to do next after my current contract expires, so there's no hurry! |
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tarzaninchina
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 348
Location: World
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject: Only 2 Cents |
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From what little I know, you can technically subsitute a TESOL whatever with a degree given the word in the SAFEA guidelines I got from the embassy in May. Also, this fdoes make you more attractive if you have a degree of somekind.
Most schools don't mind too much aside those with international standards of some kind.
As for moving up in Asia is concerned, the only I've seen there is age. Once you're past 30 with a number of years under your belt, then you can get into department or school management depending on what your employer needs/wants.
Personally, I haven't thought of staying in Asia that long because of ties I'd like to maintain in Canada as well as the future prospect of teaching in a North American university (although that's all I'll say for now). Still, teaching is good work so long as you can find a decent place with a good salary then you can live and save a bit (which is what I'm doing now). |
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