Success on your Certificate Course in English Language Teaching by Caroline Brandt has been very informative and helpful in my search for a TESOL/TEFL course.. The author describes courses validated by Cambridge and Trinity as the standard-bearers. She acknowledges School for International Training (SIT) courses as quality courses in the mold of Cambridge courses, but seems to feel they don’t have quite the same patina.
However, there are no Cambridge or Trinity courses in Chicago. There is an SIT course which seems to be quite good, another organization that seems to be a bit of a diploma mill and various seminars. I would need to go to Boston or Edinburgh or someplace for a Cambridge course.
What is the relative strength of an SIT certificate compared to a Cambridge certificate? Is it as well-known among better language schools in Asia? Is it considered as good, nearly as good, better or a poor substitute?
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girishseshamani
I strongly believe that a certification by itself does not add to your credentials or reputation. I am not trying to downgrade any program. All said and done it is ultimately the goodwill and trust that you create with each batch which will be the differentiating factor.
You have not mentioned about your career progression plan. If a program is mandatory or a pre requisite from a career perspective, then inevitably you need to get yourself certified from a reputed name. All English Language trainers go through the same challenge of building our reputation with each batch. It should be an obsession for us to constantly learn and innovate with each passing day. Every batch is a challenge and it is ultimately our ability to size up our participants and delivering the goods which count.