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For existing 150-hour level 4 TESOL graduates who want to upgrade and earn a prestigious 250-hour ACTDEC Level 5 certificate. Take your TESOL knowledge to the next level and gain a superior qualification.
Interactive price: £145.00
Upgrade your 150-hour ACTDEC Level 4 qualification to a 250-hour Level 5 and enhance your TESOL resume.
100-hour booster course, ideal if you want a prestigious ACTDEC Level 5 qualification and better worldwide job opportunities.
This course is for you if you want to:
Enjoy 24/7 course access: work at your own pace with personal tutor support for feedback, marking and guidance.
Top quality training
If you’ve already obtained an accredited Level 4 150-hour TESOL from any ACTDEC training provider, this is for you.
The teacher’s choice, this course is for serious professionals, keen to extend their knowledge across areas that few other TESOL course cover.
Enjoy more depth on topics like online English teaching, with tips for using Zoom and managing the online class environment. To prepare you for today’s classroom, we look at inclusion in TESOL, understanding how to help learners with various special needs or disabilities (SEND). You’ll dive into linguistics to see where our language comes from, the power that influences it and phonetics and phonology to understand the fundamentals of our sound and speech system. In our advanced assessment modules, you’ll develop the skills to properly assess your learners and write your own tests. Then, ensure you keep growing as a teacher through our extended professional development modules. Finally, take your pick from a variety of exciting topics for an extended essay.
See the course content tab for the specifics of what you'll cover on this course.
Quality teacher training guaranteed with revised and updated content in line with new ACTDEC Level 5 requirements for 2022. Reflect on the material that’s pertinent to you in our new ‘notes’ feature. Qualify with the confidence that can bring you more expertise to the classroom. Enjoy tutor feedback, support and regular course time reminders to help keep you on track.
''The course was brilliantly thorough and informative without overloading me with unnecessary information. The website is always being updated with news of careers and improvements. Everything was absolutely balanced to perfection and I wouldn't change a thing.''
Tatiana Parshina, 100 hour upgrade course graduate
Eligibility
Open to anyone who hold an ACTDEC accredited 150-hour TESOL from either Global English TESOL or another ACTDEC accredited course provider. To check non-native English speaker eligibility requirements, please see our FAQ page. Remember you can always ask us if you are not sure about your level of English.
A reliable internet connection is required since this course operates over an interactive platform. PC/Mac/Tablet compatible.
Duration
Typically, this course can take between 1-4 weeks to complete, but we go at your pace and you'll have 180 days access to this course for maximum flexibility.
Everything you need to complete your course and gain your certificate is included in the one fee above. However, check out these optional extras:
This course blends perfectly with any other specialist TESOL courses, for an additional 10% discount.
Upgrade to TESOL Professional Course 100 hrs - course content
This bridging course will take you from the ACTDEC Level 4 (150 hr) course to the ACTDEC Level 5 course, across in 17 interactive modules.
On the course you will answer a range of tutor-assessed and computer-assessed questions, write two lesson plans, one extended essay and take three 'stop and reflect' sections.
Module numbers start at M36, which is the start of the Level 5 content in our main 250 hour TESOL Professional Course.
M36 – Introduction to Phonetics
Introduction to speech production mechanisms, 26 letters and 45 sounds.
M37 – How we Articulate Sounds
Voiced and unvoiced consonants, minimal pairs, voicing, plosives and continuants fortis and lenis. Points of articulation, plosives, fricatives and approximants, phonology.
M38 – Vowels
Vowel mapping, vowel variation, short and long vowels, variations and quality.
M39 – Diphthongs
Three categories of diphthongs, closing and centring diphthongs.
M40 – Sentence Stress 1
Elision, Strong and weak forms, rules and help for learners.
M41 – Intonation
Why intonation is important, different functions of intonation, pitch and tone.
M42 – Sentence Stress 2
Stress and rhythm, assimilation and liaison, teaching a stress-timed language.
LP3 – Phonetics Lesson Plan
Create a lesson plan to help learners improve their pronunciation.
CR7 – Phonetics Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on phonetics and pronunciation.
M43 – Introduction to linguistics
Definition of linguistics, differ types of linguistics.
M44 – History of linguistics
Language teaching history and development, from generative theory to the communicative approach.
M45 – Sociolinguistics
Multilingual speech communities, language variation and domination, register and diglossia, code switching, language and power, gender and taboo.
M46 – Applied Linguistics
Introduction to AL, definition, pragmatics, classroom vs. real world learning, social medial and online learning, digital residents and visitors.
CR8 – Linguistics Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on aspects of linguistics.
M47 – Inclusion in TESOL
Helping learners who struggle or who have a SEND (e.g. ASD, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia), how these present in the classroom, tips, tools and practical guidance for guidance for support.
M48 – Advanced Assessment 1
Why assessment is important, summative and formative assessment, washback and ‘teaching for the test’, assessment for learning and assessment of learning, designing tests and peer and self-assessment
M49 – Advanced Assessment 2
IELTS in depth – what it is and how we teach it effectively.
M50 – Professional Online Teaching
Zoom tips and suggestions to enhance online teaching, the chat function, breakout rooms, sharing screens and using images and video creatively. Create an online lesson plan.
M51 – Professional Development 2
Reflective teaching, understanding some of the current issues around ethics in ELT.
CR9 – Level 5 Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on professional development, professional online teaching, advanced assessment and inclusion in ELT.
Final Assignment
Write a 1500-word summary essay on one of the areas from the Level 5 course.
CC – Course conclusion
Course review and steps towards certification
For existing 150-hour level 4 TESOL graduates who want to upgrade and earn a prestigious 250-hour ACTDEC Level 5 certificate. Take your TESOL knowledge to the next level and gain a superior qualification.
Interactive price: £145.00
This is the 5th online course that I have done with Global English. I completed the Cert.(ES)TESOL course in February 2008, and have since done the Business English course, the English Grammar course, TEYL and now the Cert.(TM)TESOL up-grade course.
I thought about it for some time, but decided to do the up-grade course for two reasons - interest in the subjects, and to continue my professional development. I found the upgrade course very thought provoking. The background knowledge of phonetics and phonology in Module 1 was very interesting, as was the introduction to linguistics covered in Module 2.
The Final Assignment was the most challenging part of the course. Researching the distinction between language acquisition and language learning is relevant for English language teachers, and evaluating my own experience of language learning and teaching helped to make it more personal and memorable.
I've learned so much, and look forward to putting some of that knowledge to good use.
I have found all the tutors at GE to be very professional, and the service is outstanding. Course work is marked quickly, and queries are often answered the same day. My tutor was very supportive, and she always gave very helpful comments on my work. Thank you, Clare, for all your help and encouragement.
I'm a bit sad that I have finished with GE, but am happy with the time that I was a GE trainee. Many thanks to everyone at Global English.
Carol King
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Great clarity: the reader knows what is being presented, why, and what is expected from them, and where they are in relation to everything else in the course - clear well-thought out progression
There is continual encouragement for 'Further Research' for those wishing to go a bit deeper / build up their teaching material/examples, as well as many original teaching ideas.
There is continual support and reassurance and students are always clear how many points are awarded for a certain tasks.
Deputy Chair of the ACTDEC Independent Accreditation Panel:
Ian Marvin BA(Jt Hons), MA(ELT)
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For existing 150-hour level 4 TESOL graduates who want to upgrade and earn a prestigious 250-hour ACTDEC Level 5 certificate. Take your TESOL knowledge to the next level and gain a superior qualification.
Interactive price: £145.00
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For existing 150-hour level 4 TESOL graduates who want to upgrade and earn a prestigious 250-hour ACTDEC Level 5 certificate. Take your TESOL knowledge to the next level and gain a superior qualification.
Interactive price: £145.00
Our online interactive courses are innovative and take a fresh approach to training to teach English.
With modules that you can take on a computer (notebook/laptop or PC/Mac) or on a tablet device (ipad/android/windows etc.), this course offers full flexibility for training on the go. After watching an initial welcome video, you can dive straight in to the course or pick and choose the order of the modules that you work through.
There is access to a personal tutor who will mark your work and the opportunity to share teaching ideas on the Global English forum, all via your own student area.
There is easy access to the further research section in each module all in one place, as you explore the hundreds of TEFL website links we have found for you to take your knowledge further.
Built in HTML5, you can take this course from anywhere with a good internet connection. You will also need to be able to access YouTube videos from where you are located.
Soft copy modules of selected units are available for a small additional fee.
For existing 150-hour level 4 TESOL graduates who want to upgrade and earn a prestigious 250-hour ACTDEC Level 5 certificate. Take your TESOL knowledge to the next level and gain a superior qualification.
Interactive price: £145.00
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