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TESOL Affiliations
To maintain our high standards, all ITTT online courses are accredited by the Online TESOL and TEFL standards agency (OTTSA). OTTSA are dedicated to ensuring high standards in the teacher training industries. They are specifically interested in online courses relating to the field of Teaching English as a Second Language.
IATEFL
Another way we maintain the highest possible standards is by being an institutional member of IATEFL. This is the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. For more details of this organization, please visit: www.iatefl.org.
TESOL Course Affiliations
A board of advisors externally validates and moderates TEFL international on a regular basis. Amongst this prestigious board includes an abundance of regional language experts in language teaching and teacher training. It also includes many members who are internationally recognized and acclaimed experts in the field of English Language Teaching. All of these members, regionally and internationally, advice all the teaching staff in our centers all over the world.
The international board members are regular visitors to TEFL international regions all over the world. They are a key part of our training conferences and workshops, often participating as key note speakers. They offer invaluable advice on the growing trends within the teacher training industry, which help shape our training programs ensuring they are providing the most up date information and maintaining the quality we strive for. While the international board members do not moderate the TEFL international courses, the advice they give is crucial to our high standing in the industry and they add welcome expertise to our teacher training initiatives.
Our courses are moderated by regional board members, who visit our international locations on a monthly basis to ensure each of our centers is meeting the required standards for the respective region and that our trainees are satisfied with the courses. This is done via a comprehensive review of our participants work, the facilities and resources available at each location and interviews with our teaching staff and students. The consultants are paid externally and have detailed knowledge of teacher needs in their area. They are trained specialists with over 5 years experience in several fields coming under the TESOL banner, including teaching, teacher training and management (who hire the teachers). If you would like a full description of our moderation process or would like to see the credentials of the external, regional moderators, please request this via e-mail. We will be happy to provide this information.
TEFL International – Board of Academic Advisors:
Dr. David Nunan
Dr. Nunan is the author of hundreds of TESOL articles and books. He is also a former President of TESOL.
He is a strong supporter of our organizations, remarking:
"The TEFL International Certificate programs are among the best of their kind; excellent trainers teaching modern methodologies with input from some of the brightest minds in ESL. I highly recommend TEFL International."
Dr. Bill Leon
Dr Leon has conducted evaluation research of topics spanning education and social services. He has also worked in alignment with a variety of community, voluntary and political bodies on social, economic and environmental matters. He is an experienced research and evaluation consultant with nearly 30 years in the industry and 3 degrees in geography. He is currently an instructor in Program Evaluation at the University of Washington and is President of Geo Education and Research.
Dr. Arthur McNeil
Dr Arthur McNeil possesses an impressive resume including a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Swansea, an MA in Second Language Teaching and Learning and PGCE in TEFL from the University of London and an MA is French and German from the University of Glasgow. His 35+ years experience has given him an expertise in numerous specialties relating to the field, including language policy, linguistics, curriculum development, language project management and language acquisition. He is the Program Leader in the Med TESOL course at Asian University
John W. Miller
John W. Miller has professional interests in a range of areas including action research, learning styles and strategies and reflective teaching. The ways that intercultural relationships develop and change are of particular interest to him. John has an interesting background with started as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia (he also served as Associate Peach Corps Director in Ukraine during the mid-90s). After teaching and directing the Foreign Language Institute at Kyungsung University in Pusan, Korea, he worked for Ohio University. While working there he was crucial in the launch of OPELT, which is an English Language Program at Chubu University in Kasugai, Japan. John returned to Ohio University and is currently finishing off a dissertation for his PhD in Intercultural Communication. During this varied career, David has found the time to conduct workshops in Liberia, Korea, Japan, Ukraine and the US. He currently lives in Monterrey, California with his wife Sunhee, a naturalized Korean-American. Here he is an Academic Specialist for the Korean Language Program at the Defense Language Institute and in charge of faculty development. This includes the design and facilitation of teacher-training workshops and learning strategies workshops for students.
Robb Scott
Mr. Scott’s TESOL career started at an international K-12 American style school in Quito, Ecuador. After moving to Japan he gained valuable experience writing ESL curriculums and training teachers at an American branch-campus. Most recently, Mr. Scott has Brooklyn New York, where he has taken on various roles. These include writing educational materials for Newsweek, serving as a technical instructor helping students build web-pages in a Cablevision project and starting an online newsletter for ESOL (English for Speakers of Teachers College, Other Languages). Along with his wife and children, he currently resides in Kansas, USA.
Members of the Regional Board of Academic Advisors
We have monthly visits at all our TEFL international sites to validate and moderate our courses. These visits are conducted by local ELT specialist and ESL professionals, managers and training experts who moderate our facilities, materials and performance.
UK College of Teachers
TITC is a proud institutional member of the UK College of Teachers.
