TESL Canada has started a new service for the ESL profession in Canada. It will add to its website a list of all those teachers who hold TESL Canada professional certification and who choose to make this information available to other professionals in the field.

This directory gives information about the nationally recognized level of your professional training. It shows your name and the level at which you have been certified by TESL Canada (e.g. Joan Smith, Standard II). The certification designation may also indicate the minimum number of hours of your teaching experience (i.e. “Standard II Permanent” means that you have at least 1500 hours of experience).

The Certification Directory will be part of the website later this spring and is accessible to the public. Currently there is already a directory of TESL Canada Recognized Teacher Training Programs.

If you are professionally certified by TESL Canada, you can add your name on a voluntary basis by giving written permission to TESL Canada to post your details in the Certification Directory of their website.  It means that anyone (e.g. a potential employer) looking for a teacher with a specific standard of TESL Canada professional certification may contact you directly rather than recruiting through a variety of channels.

Therefore, if you have TESL Canada professional certification, consider adding your name and your professional certification level to the list.

If you don’t have TESL Canada professional certification yet, well….how about applying for it? Contact TESL Canada for further details (admin@tesl.ca).

Liet Hellwig
BC TEAL provincial representative to TESL Canada

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