For a number of years, NILE has worked closely with Trinity College London - first supporting them in developing and piloting Trinity ‘s Certificate for Practising Teachers (CertPT), and, since 2020, offering this NQF Level 6 qualification as an additional option for many of our NILE courses. 

This autumn we celebrated with our latest successful CertPT graduate. Rachel Head, who had the distinction of being the 100th recipient of the CertPT after completing a NILE course, joined her NILE Online course in April this year, and passed both the NILE course and her CertPT assignments with flying colours. 

Rachel says

"Thank you so much to NILE and Trinity College London! I'm so happy to have received this alongside my certificates; it was the cherry on top of a very fruitful summer! I had been looking to specialise my teaching practice, and first took the course ‘Teaching English for Academic Purposes’, which gave me a practical and extensive introduction to the field, and helped me to secure a pre-sessional position teaching EAP with the University of Warwick. This success provided a perfect opportunity to apply my studies and engage more thoroughly with the subject while studying for the CertPT."

 

Through completing her CertPT, Rachel extended her research to include evaluating published materials, adapting resources to her specific professional context, developing her own materials and reflecting on the resources used. These focuses frame the four assignments required to obtain the certification.

She continues…

"I loved the context-dependent nature of this course, which required research and application of specified theory and content, enabling a deeper understanding of my professional environment. As a result, I feel confident about designing and delivering classes in EAP for my students, and optimistic that I can specialise my teaching practice further in the coming months and years. I want to thank NILE for the high level of support that I received from my tutors and the administrative staff. These courses have been truly transformative for my professional goals, and I am excited to see where they will take me next!"

NILE strongly believes in the process of reflection and supporting participants in applying the principles of NILE courses to their own professional practice, and as Rachel points out, Trinity’s CertPT qualification allows you to delve deeper into this, thus aligning with NILE’s vision on teacher development. Read more about the Trinity CertPT with NILE.

 

Between September 2022 and September 2023, NILE and Trinity collaborated to undertake research to explore the impact of the CertPT on teachers’ professional practice. The study used a combination of recent research findings, Trinity CertPT assessment submissions and semi- structured interviews with NILE course participants and teacher educators, using qualitative text analysis to review the participant data, and the results of this research are available to download now.

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Read more about the thinking behind the Trinity’s CertPT and its impact on NILE and our students in this interview with Thom Kiddle on the Trinity website.

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