About EBC
Why choose EBC?
Worldwide, lifetime TEFL job placement is one good reason
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An accredited course
Accreditation is a signal to you, a future EBC accredited English teacher, that we care about the quality of the education we provide.
The EBC TEFL course has been accredited as being at QCF level 4 by Ascentis a National Awarding Body.
Ascentis is a National Awarding Body, approved by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and is licensed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).
- The QCA and QAA are both British Government organisations
- The QCA oversees the National Awarding Bodies
- The QAA ensures that higher education qualifications are of a sound standard
Ascentis is listed on the British Council Website as a recognised examination board.
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Experience
We have been providing EFL training,
language translation and
other language services in Madrid, Spain since 1995. EBC is now a successful
and well known language centre. Don't believe us!, look at EBC y Asociados clients. We now want to share our wealth of knowledge
and practical experience with people like you who would like to enter the English as a
Foreign Language teaching profession by offering the EBC International TEFL Certificate.
Since our EBC International TEFL certificate course
started we have trained and placed over 2,500 satisfied teachers throughout the world. We get a continual
stream of requests from language schools throughout the world requesting
lists of our graduates.
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Top quality trainers
As you are the
best, we believe that you should be taught by people who are experts in
TEFL. Our trainers each have, on average, 10 to 15 years experience teaching English as a
foreign language. In addition to TEFL experience, our EBC TEFL trainers hold BAs and
Masters degrees in just about every language related area you can think
of.
Our trainers also
give external lectures on teacher training, organise UNICEF English summer
camps and have authored TEFL text books and audio tapes. These people know
their subject and even more importantly, they know how to teach it
effectively.
By comparison, other courses insist on 5 years or
even less TEFL experience and in some cases don't even insist that the
prospective trainer has a degree.
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Staff approachability
We want you to feel comfortable from day 1.
Our centres are in Spanish speaking countries but if you
don't speak Spanish don't worry. You will find that all of our TEFL trainers, support staff
and management all speak advanced level Spanish so if you need help with anything in
Spanish that you don't understand you can ask anyone.
In addition, if you have any other questions
relating to life in general, our campus locations, how you're getting on, study
problems, you name it - you will find us there for you. If you have any
problems, great or small, let us know and we will be happy to help you
resolve it.
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24 hours of teaching practice
"Practice makes perfect", so we've made sure
you get a fair crack at perfecting your teaching style by the time you
graduate. Compare what we offer to the 6 or so hours you'd get taking a CELTA or Trinity course.
An outline of the practice sessions
EBC has scheduled a total of 24 hours teaching
practice time into the course. This comprises
- 8 hours of EBC trainer demonstration classes;
- 8 hours of peer group practice sessions (rehearsals);
- 8 hours teaching 8, 1 hour classes to groups of non-native English speakers.
EBC trainer demonstration classes
You may never have taught before, so rather than
throw you straight in at the deep end, we introduce you to teaching in a
gradual manner. The EBC trainers will give you demonstration classes in
order to highlight do's and don'ts in the classroom. The classes also
serve to introduce you to different approaches to teaching the main
aspects of English to non-native speakers.
The first demonstration class you will be given
serves two purposes: it serves as a vehicle to show you how to teach and
it also serves to help you understand the difficulties in learning a
foreign language as you will not be taught in English. Instead you will be
given a language lesson in one of a few rather obscure languages.
There is an open analysis and feed-back session
after each demonstration class.
Observed peer group practice sessions
Prior to delivering each one hour class, you will
be given the opportunity to rehearse your lesson in front of your peers
and course trainer. You'll be asked to stand up and teach a segment of
your planned lesson and walk through how the plan will help your students
reach the lesson objective.
You will receive feed-back from both your peers
and your EBC course tutor.
Observed 8 x 1 hour classes to groups of non-native
English speakers
These 8, 1 hour classes are the real thing. You will teach
each of your planned lessons to groups on non-English speakers. You will teach at least 2 groups of beginner, 2
groups of intermediate and 2 groups of advanced students. The remaining 2
classes are allocated at random but they will also be beginner,
intermediate or advanced students.
Every class you teach will be observed by a
rotation of the EBC course trainers and your training centre's Head of
Training. This means that you will be observed by a substantial number of
people, therefore the analysis and help we can give you during the
feed-back sessions will be immense. Everything is designed to help you get
into the swing of teaching as quickly as possible. We don't like leaving
things to chance.
You will receive formally documented feed-back
from your EBC course trainer in a private review session.
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Teacher/Student interaction
We believe very strongly in giving you as much
feed-back as possible regarding your course progress. There are times
planned into our 4 week schedule when you will have private tutorial
sessions with your course trainer in order to discuss your progress. The
tutorials are two-way so you'll get the opportunity to be frank with your
trainer and ask questions you possibly would not like to ask in class.
All criticism will be given in a positive manner.
It should also be taken positively and acted upon accordingly.
Teacher/student interaction is there because we want to help you
pass the course. We take teacher/student interaction very seriously and we
do follow up to make sure that you've taken it on board.
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International recognition
The EBC International Certificate in TESOL that we award through the
Ascentis is recognised by the British Council as a valid
teaching certificate for its accredited schools in 109 countries.
We get a continual stream of requests from
language schools throughout the world requesting lists of our graduates.
Most language schools throughout the world will instantly hire
someone who is an accredited English teachers.
The quality of our course is recognised by the companies that hire
our graduates because if our graduates were second rate, they would not be entertained as
TESOL TEFL job applicants.
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Training quality
A course designed and delivered by teachers for
teachers
EBC is a language
training company that was founded by teachers and employs highly skilled
teachers. This means that EBC has first hand experience of what the EFL job market requires. This special knowledge has allowed us to develop
our course as an intensive, practical and hands-on programme
that trains you to be an effective ESOL EFL teaching professional.
Our one month intensive TEFL certificate
course exceeds international certificate course guidelines which state that you
have to complete a 100 hundred hour course that includes 6 hours of teaching practice. The
EBC TEFL course is 150 hours including 24 hours of teaching
practice.
We do not cancel courses
For financial reasons, some TEFL Certificate course providers may
cancel courses at short notice due to lack of numbers. Some course
providers have a right to cancel clause in their
contract.
Cancellation causes stress, inconvenience
and financial penalties to the people who may have signed up for a course and already made
travel arrangements. We will not cancel courses even if we lose money. Why? Because if you
want to come and study with us, why should we inconvenience you
because we will suffer financially. It's greedy and immoral to do this, so we don't do it.
The only reason we would not run a course is if no-one signed up for it. So far we haven't had this problem.
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Student satisfaction
After each course
we ask all course participants for feedback. The reason we do this is not
to make us feel good (although it does) but to look for areas in which we
can improve existing course areas and add new services/facilities. We take
every survey response very seriously.
Part of the survey
asks for a brief testimonial comment about the course. Click here to read the testimonials from some of our previous students. We don't have room to put all of them up.
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Great cities to study and work in
Our campus locations are terrific cities to study and live in. In
addition to learning how to be an EFL teacher you'll get exposure to an
entirely new perspective on life. Our campus location cities are cultural melting
pots and have deep historical ties.
It'll take you a long time to get bored with our campus location countries, so come prepared
to stay for a while.
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Worldwide TEFL job placement- Our
unrivalled,
lifelong commitment to helping you find work
Our job placement assistance scheme is unrivalled.
We do not know of any other training organisation that goes to the same lengths
that we do in order to help you get working as quickly as possible after
finishing the course.
Lifetime assistance
EBC's belief is that if you come to us to study,
we try our hardest to help get you working as quickly as possible after
finishing the course. We can assure you that we will be here if you need
us and we will always be happy to answer questions and help you look for
work in other areas if you want us to. It's all part of the job placement
assistance service, whether you want it or not, once you study with EBC
you become part of our ever-growing family of globetrotting teachers.
Our job placement assistance scheme is only for
EBC graduates. Many people who have taken other courses (usually CELTA and
Trinity) write us asking for help to get jobs. Unfortunately for them we
have to turn them away. Here's an example sent in by someone called Linda:
"I have just
recently become Cambridge CELTA certified (Eastleigh College, UK) & would
like to secure a TEFL position in Spain to improve my Spanish. ....... In
hind-sight I now realise that it would have been more productive to enrol
for my TEFL course with an organisation like yours :-) Oh well, I guess
that's life!"
There are many people like Linda who write to us.
If you study with EBC you won't share their lack of job problems.
EBC believes you should not have to knock on doors looking for
jobs
At EBC our belief is that if you train with us you should get a
job with us. Our sister company is EBC
y Asociados Idiomas, a Madrid based EFL school. This means that (unlike other TEFL
certificate training companies) there is a good chance that you will get hired (subject to availability) as soon as you graduate. Isn't this better than
having to go around knocking on doors like a vacuum cleaner salesman using a list of
schools you've been given?
As with all good companies we have contingency measures should EBC
y Asociados not have work immediately available. We are also a supplier of TEFL
Certified teachers to hundreds of EFL language schools in your campus location's country and the rest of the world. The list includes
internationally recognised companies.
Our procedure is to send your applications including your CV to
these organisations along with a cover letter from us stating that you (subject to passing
the course) will be an EBC International TEFL Certificate course graduate. The cover letter has
been requested by the EFL companies so that they know your application comes from us and
that you trained with us. It helps them sort out the "street" applications from
serious job placement applications.
EBC manages the process on your behalf so you don't have to waste
shoe leather pounding the streets knocking on doors. As you can see, we go that extra mile
to open the doors to jobs for you. After that the rest is up to you at the interview. You
aren't left entirely on your own regarding interviews as our job workshop training
explains what you should and should not do when interviewing for TEFL positions in
EFL companies.
Your accredited English teacher status plus working with internationally recognised companies
via EBC y Asociados Idiomas will
give you a powerful CV/Resume. The prospective employers you meet when you begin your
professional career favour candidates with international work experience. Should you at
some point choose to change careers, the experience you have gained through teaching,
working and living in different countries will always be one of your strongest assets.
EBC believes in helping you get a job regardless of where you
are
In addition to a real job placement programme, as a
graduate you will also get access to our web based list of TEFL schools around the world
so you can instantly apply for jobs anywhere.
EBC believes that getting a TEFL job is not a matter of knocking
on doors or using shot-gun CV/resume mailing strategies hoping that someone will hire you.
We want to really help you, our future graduates, get a job. We are in the process of
establishing relationships with ESL schools around the world. Our
relationship management is ongoing and aims to establish relationships with ESL schools in
most non-English speaking countries that require good EFL teachers.
The objective of establishing
relationships is to help your application get to the top of the list.
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