The Bridge IDELT™ (International Diploma in English Language Teaching) is an intensive, 140-hour course that prepares you to teach English anywhere in the world.

The IDELT™ program has been approved by ACCET (Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training) and is recommended for credit at over 1,500 universities by PONSI (University of the State of New York National Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction). This means that the IDELT™ was evaluated by a team of subject matter experts and found comparable to college instruction. The IDELT™ has been recommended for six graduate-level semester hours as an elective or as a teaching practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

The IDELT™ is offered worldwide ONLY at BridgeTEFL Authorized Training Centers, which have been evaluated and recognized as meeting our rigorous standards and quality assurances. All IDELT™ graduates at any of our Authorized Training Centers worldwide will be issued an official certificate from BridgeTEFL headquarters upon course completion.


IDELT™ Course Description
As an IDELT™ trainee, you’ll benefit from our decades of international experience training teachers and students. IDELT™ graduates will finish the course with a better understanding of the English language, practical experience with a variety of teaching techniques, and confidence in the classroom.

The IDELT™ provides 140 contact hours between the trainee, the course trainer(s), peers, and EFL/ESL students. Course components include the following:  essential subject knowledge given in input sessions (interactive lecture classes), teaching practice with real language learners, classroom observation of experienced teachers, and several written assignments.  

During the learning experience, each trainee will prepare lesson plans for, and teach, a minimum of six hours of practice teaching lessons with real students. These classes are observed both by trainers and fellow trainees.

This is an intensive course, and for the participation part of their grade, trainees are expected to participate in classroom discussions, keep up on their reading assignments, and complete classroom and self-study tasks as they arise.

There are several graded written assignments. The topics for these papers include the following: Grammar/Language-Related Tasks, Language Skills-Related Tasks, and Professional Development Tasks.


Evaluation and Final Report
Upon completion of the IDELT™, BridgeTEFL will issue you a final report detailing what was covered during the training and your overall performance in the course. You may include this with your resume for future employment references.


Admission Requirements
All applicants to the IDELT™ course must meet the following criteria:

• Be at least 20 years of age by course completion (18- and 19-year-olds   accepted at the center’s discretion). • Have a standard of education equivalent of that required for entry into   higher education. • Have native or near-native competence in both spoken and written English,   such that it permits them to follow the training with no problems. Non-native   speakers must communicate in English with few or no mistakes, and have a   minimum level of fluency roughly equal to a score of 6.5-9.0 on the IELTS,   79-120 on the TOEFL iBT, or 213-300 on the computer-based TOEFL. All   non-native speakers must complete an oral interview with a member of the   admissions staff before enrolling.

No previous teaching experience is required.