How is the 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate course equivalent to CELTA?

How is the 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate course equivalent to CELTA?

TESL Canada is the national accrediting body and they accept CELTA and Trinity CertTESOL as equivalent to Standard 1 for those who took CELTA/Trinity abroad and need to get the equivalency to teach in Canada. For international jobs, 120 hours with Practicum (with real ESL students) is considered equivalent to CELTA. 

CELTA trainees do lesson planning as part of the Practicum but the course assignments are reflection papers. In our online TESOL courses, trainees get to do lesson plans in various formats prior to the Practicum (and more lesson plans during the Practicum). Those who don’t do the Practicum after the online course get to practice lesson planning and receive feedback.  

The 120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate includes 3 Lesson Plan Lab Assignments. Those who add the 10-hour Live Lesson Planning Workshop to their course registration are eligible to attend live workshop-style lectures and participate in group activities to discuss and practice the use of different lesson planning frameworks with other peers in preparation for the Lab Assignments. 

As for the optional and separate Practicum module, class observation and teaching practice need to take place in a real ESL-related class setting. This means that our trainees need to teach all 10 hours of the teaching practice portion in a ESL language school or other established ESL-related program with adult students. Teaching Practice in CELTA is 6 hours and in a real class setting. Lesson plans have to be submitted for our Practicum and CELTA’s. Other online courses with blended option and no TESL Canada or other CELTA-equivalent accreditation only offer “workshop” style of Practicum with peer trainees.



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