TESOL Certificate Program at Teachers College, Columbia University

For more than 15 years, the TESOL Certificate Program at Teachers College, Columbia University has offered a unique balance of theory and practice in teaching English to speakers of other languages. With a close affiliation with the graduate TESOL & Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, we are able to offer a rigorous curriculum that reflects current research by experts in the field of TESOL.

Students in the TESOL Certificate Program are able to put TESOL theories into practice by teaching in our language school, the Community Language Program, which offers ESL classes to non-native speakers of English in the local community. To help bridge the gap between theory and practice, students are guided by senior mentor teachers that help with lesson planning, classroom management, task design, and more.

The program consists of five required courses, practical teaching experience, senior teacher mentoring, and optional workshops. For more information, visit tc.columbia.edu/tesolcertificate.

STUDY a rigorous graduate-level curriculum that reflects current research by experts in the field of TESOL.
APPLY theories in the classroom by teaching in our language school, the Community Language Program.