ESOL Endorsement: Applied Linguistics

Online registration closed on Sun, Aug 11, 2019.

Mon, August 12, 2019 - Sun, October 6, 2019

Contact Christi Sadler
Target Audience Category I Teachers (Primary Language Arts/ English Teacher)
In-Service Points 60
Delivery Online (Moodle)
Fee $240.00 member districts + Hernando, Madison, Monroe, FSU Lab / $300.00 non-member districts
Provides educators with the skills needed to acquire a deeper understanding of the structure of English from a modern day linguistic perspective. Enables the educator to analyze the structure of English to contrast with the language(s) of the target population in a given class. Participants learn how to adapt classroom instructional practices to meet the linguistic needs of their English language learners.

This 60-hour, 8 week online course partially fulfills the Florida DOE's ESOL training requirements for Category I teachers who need 300 hours of ESOL and is one of the five courses required for ESOL Endorsement under NEFEC's Plan 1. Participants will spend approximately 6-8 hours per week to complete a module with two or more lessons. The courses are completely online and require no face-to-face meetings or specific dates/times required to be online.

An email will be sent to each participant with login information and directions for accessing the course through Moodle, NEFEC's course management system, by 4:30 PM on the start date of the course. Please check your Spam folder if you have not received login by that time. If you do not find it, contact elearning@nefec.org to verify your email and to have the information resent.

For information on the ESOL Endorsement courses offered by NEFEC, please visit http://www2.nefec.org/elearning/esolendorsement/.

NEFEC's courses are for inservice points and are not college level courses. The Florida Department of Education will not accept NEFEC's courses if they are submitted by an individual for recertification or endorsement. They must be submitted through a district as part of their approved Master Inservice Plan.

Participants are responsible for following their district’s requirements to obtain inservice credit and endorsement. If you are unsure if your district will accept courses offered through NEFEC, you will need to check with your district Staffing Development office.

FLDOE Note Regarding Endorsements: Per section 1012.575, F.S., only school districts have statutory authority to have state approved add-on endorsement programs whereby teachers can complete the endorsement requirements via inservice points. All other (including non-public) school teachers can add an endorsement to their certificate, but only through the college credit route. Private school teachers may take the "endorsement" courses offered for inservice points, but they won't be able to use them to add the endorsement to their certificate.

*NOTE: NEFEC Member districts include: Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Flagler, FSDB, FSU Lab School, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Monroe, Nassau, PK Yonge, Putnam, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union.