About EBC TEFL Training
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The Story Behind EBC - Executive Business Communications
Established in Madrid in 1998, EBC has decades of experience in English language education and professional training.
Executive Business Communications (EBC) began as an English language academy in Madrid, Spain. We shortened the name to EBC because our Spanish secretaries and clients found the full name difficult to pronounce. The abbreviation quickly became familiar, and EBC became our identity.
In 2002, EBC expanded by opening a dedicated TEFL training division to prepare people like you to teach English as a foreign language.
Although the new division served an international, English-speaking audience, EBC retained its established name. Today, EBC continues that tradition by providing professional teacher training, including Trinity College London English teaching qualifications, to students worldwide.
EBC Idiomas, an English-language academy, opens in Madrid.
We establish our foundations in language education.
EBC decides to establish its TEFL teacher-training programme.
EBC Servicios Lingüíticos Europe is incorporated.
We develop our own TEFL course using experienced, in-house experts.
EBC opens a dedicated TEFL training centre in Madrid.
Our teacher-training programme begins on Monday, April 21, 2003.
The programme includes proactive, worldwide lifetime job placement support, actively helping graduates find teaching opportunities throughout their careers.
EBC submits its in-house TEFL course to the prestigious UK-based College of Teachers, a professional and awarding body for the teaching profession.
The course is accepted at Level 5, virtually unchanged.
The College of Teachers becomes the Chartered College of Teaching following a change to its Royal Charter.
The Chartered College of Teaching does not offer the type of TEFL course accreditation previously provided by the College of Teachers.
EBC begins exploring alternative accreditation options.
We evaluated several TEFL qualifications and accreditation bodies, including CELTA.
We were attracted to Trinity's emphasis on reflective practice and guided discovery, helping trainees understand not just how to teach, but why.
We chose Trinity College London for its focus on developing confident, independent teachers and the career advantage its international recognition offers our graduates.
EBC takes its teacher-training programme to the next level, submitting its in-house course to Trinity College London for the prestigious CertTESOL accreditation.
Once again, our course is accepted virtually unchanged, affirming the strength of our training and our commitment to the highest professional standards.
COVID-19 forces the closure of our Madrid training centre.
EBC works intensively with Trinity for four months to develop an online virtual classroom CertTESOL course matching the quality of face-to-face training.
Trinity approves a six-month pilot programme.
Excellent results demonstrate that online CertTESOL training can maintain the required standards.
Trinity formally adopts online delivery as an approved training method.
Our parent language academy, EBC Idiomas ,becomes an authorised Trinity examination centre, expanding its role in delivering internationally recognised English language qualifications.
EBC launches 4 Level 6 Trinity CertPT courses for practising teachers in:
- Business English
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
- Teaching English Online
EBC delivers all its training 100% online through its proven virtual classroom.
Our graduates receive the same Trinity certificates as their face-to-face counterparts, with no distinction made for online study.
External moderators consistently award our courses the highest marks.
More than 20 years of expertise continue to shape the future of teacher training.
At EBC we never stand still
We evolve. We adapt. We demand quality.
Over 20 years of experience.
Focused on the future of TEFL.
EBC TEFL training
Your Path to a Successful Teaching Career
Internationally Recognised Certification
Earn the prestigious Trinity CertTESOL, accepted by schools and employers worldwide.
Comprehensive Training
Develop essential teaching skills, from lesson planning to classroom management, with expert-led instruction.
Flexible Learning Options
Learn with expert trainers and your classmates in our virtual classroom on our timetabled Trinity CertTESOL and CertPT courses. Alternatively, choose one of our EBC online-only TEFL courses, delivered through Moodle for flexible, self-directed, and self-paced study.
Teach & Travel the World
Open doors to high-paying jobs in Spain, France, Italy, China, Japan, South Korea, and beyond.
Guaranteed Worldwide Job Placement Assistance — For Life
At EBC TEFL training, we don’t just train you — we support you for life. Our worldwide job placement assistance connects you with English teaching opportunities wherever you want to go.
We support you throughout the job search with employment and interview workshops, CV assistance, and opportunities to connect with language schools.
We prepare you. We connect you with employers. You make the opportunity count.
EBC guarantees the availability and provision of job placement assistance. Employment decisions are made independently by employers.
Information about our Trinity College London accreditation
EBC’s association with Trinity College London means that EBC is part of one of the world’s largest educational organisations.
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EBC TEFL Training Team
Our EBC trainers bring to our EBC international TEFL certificate course their advanced degrees in TEFL and their years of EFL teaching experience gained from all over the world. At EBC, we believe in continuous TEFL training. Therefore, our TEFL trainers attend courses and seminars to reinforce their existing knowledge and introduce them to new ideas in EFL teaching. Although they all have advanced EFL degrees, EBC supports and encourages further TEFL training studies and practical work.
Laura Burstein
Senior trainer
EBC Administration Team
Just as vital as the EBC TEFL training team is our administration team. Our administration team is there to help you through every step of your training. They start from your first contact with EBC and beyond the end of your EBC TEFL training programme. In addition, if you ever need help or advice, one of our team members will always help you out.
Why should you choose EBC?
EBC is a validated Trinity College London course provider.
Our centre number is 65747.
EBC has been providing EFL training, language translation and other language services in Madrid, Spain, since 1996. EBC is now a successful and well-known language centre. Don’t believe us! look at EBC y Asociados clients. We at EBC now share our wealth of knowledge and practical experience with people like you who would like to enter the English as a Foreign Language teaching profession by offering the EBC International TEFL Certificate.
Since our EBC International TEFL certificate course started, we have trained and placed thousands of satisfied teachers worldwide. Nevertheless, we get a continual stream of requests from language schools throughout the world requesting lists of our graduates. Why? Because we are one of the very few TEFL courses in the world that insist on an applicant having a degree/5 year’s professional work experience and being at least 21 as a standard entry requirement. This means that prospective employers know that our intake standards are high and, therefore, our graduates will be top quality.
As you are the best, experts should teach you in TEFL. Our trainers each have, on average, 10 to 15 years of experience teaching English as a foreign language. In addition to TEFL experience, our EBC TEFL trainers hold BAs and Masters degrees in just about every language-related area you can think of.
Our trainers also give external lectures on teacher training, organise UNICEF English summer camps, and authored TEFL textbooks and audios. So these people know their subject, and even more importantly, they know how to teach it effectively.
By comparison, other courses insist on five years or even less TEFL experience and, in some cases, don’t even insist that the prospective trainer has a degree.
We want you to feel comfortable from day 1. Our centre is in Spain, but don’t worry if you don’t speak Spanish don’t worry. You will find that all of our TEFL trainers, support staff and management all speak advanced level Spanish, so if you need help with anything in Spanish that you don’t understand, you can ask anyone.
In addition, if you have any other questions relating to life in general, our training locations, how you’re getting on, study problems, you name it – you will find us there for you. If you have any issues, great or small, let us know, and we will be happy to help you resolve them.
We believe practise makes perfect, so we ensure you gain extensive hands-on teaching experience before you graduate. Unlike other courses that offer only a few hours of practise, EBC provides 22 hours of teaching practise, including trainer demonstrations, peer group rehearsals, and real classroom teaching with non-native English speakers. This structured approach helps you build confidence and refine your teaching skills in a supportive environment.
Your training starts with trainer-led demonstration classes, showing you the best teaching techniques. You’ll also participate in language learning sessions to understand what it’s like to learn a new language without translation. Before teaching real students, you’ll rehearse with peers and receive feedback from trainers. Finally, you’ll deliver six observed and assessed lessons to real learners, ensuring you graduate with practical experience and expert guidance to launch your teaching career successfully.
We strongly believe in giving you as much feedback as possible regarding your course progress. Therefore, there are times planned into our four-week schedule when you will have private tutorial sessions with your course trainer to discuss your progress. The tutorials are two-way, so you’ll get the opportunity to be frank with your trainer and ask questions you possibly would not like to ask in class.
All criticism will be given in a positive manner. However, it should also be taken positively and acted upon accordingly. Trainer / Trainee interaction is there to help you pass the course. We take Trainer / Trainee interaction very seriously, and we do follow up to make sure that you’ve taken it on board.
All our courses are designed and delivered by teachers for teachers.
EBC is a language training company founded by teachers and employs highly skilled teachers. This means that EBC has first-hand experience of what the EFL job market requires. This specialist knowledge has allowed us to develop our course as an intensive, practical and hands-on programme that trains you to be an effective ESOL EFL teaching professional.
After each course, we ask all course participants for feedback. We do this not to make us feel good (although it does) but to look for areas in which we can improve existing course areas and add new services/facilities. Therefore, we take every survey response very seriously.
Part of the survey asks for a brief testimonial comment about the course. You can see them in the testimonials section.
All our EBC TEFL graduates who have wanted to stay and work in Madrid and our other course locations have done so.
After almost two decades of delivering TEFL and TESOL courses in our worldwide locations, language schools know us and await our graduating classes to interview for their English teaching positions.
There is no magic to it. We continuously give the best training, the highest calibre in the market and language schools recognise this at interview time.
Everyone says they are the best. We say – “the proof is in the pudding”. In this business, the EBC pudding is the best. Just ask the language schools.
Students enrolling now for an EBC TEFL course have it easy because EBC has proven that EBC graduates make the best TEFL and TESOL teachers to language schools and companies.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I speak to you on behalf of EBC and as a parent who knows that most parents always want the best for their children. I have worked for EBC since it started in 2002 and seen the great results, reception and personal fulfilment of our graduates.
EBC is looking forward to providing your son or daughter with the teacher training, job assistance, travel support and accommodation that he or she will need to become a successful English teacher and find a teaching job after graduation in the shortest time possible.
EBC provides all the services and tools necessary to enable our students to get the most out of their study abroad experience with EBC. Having your son or daughter live abroad presents a new and exciting challenge to you and your child, regardless of the length of stay or destination. For this reason, I would like to take this opportunity to explain how EBC will be there to assist your son or daughter every step of the way.
EBC has been offering its teach English abroad TEFL certification programme since 2002 and has graduated thousands of satisfied teachers. We have also successfully found work for all course graduates who wanted to stay on and find work.
As with all responsible organisations, the comfort and safety of our students are our number one priority. Before arrival, we help by assisting each attendee through the process. Upon arrival, we make sure that each attendee is briefed about the campus location where they are studying.
In addition to making student safety a priority, we also provide the following services to help your son or daughter arrange his/her trip.
- A flight finder lists reliable and reputable flight agencies to enable you to get the best flight deals.
- Recommended accommodation will give your son or daughter a safe, clean and comfortable place to stay during the course. EBC staff will also advise about accommodation if your son or daughter decides to stay on and work in Madrid.
- A travel and health insurance finder shows different insurance options and lists reputable insurance agents that offer coverage abroad.
To ensure safe arrival at your son or daughter’s chosen campus location, we send out arrival instructions before the course start date so that your son or daughter can familiarise him/herself with our campus address. In addition, we send a map, instructions on how to get to the training centre and a list of 24/7 contact phone numbers in case of emergencies.
Our fee processing is handled by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Stripe. These are the most secure, regulated and identify theft-proof payment systems available.
EBC is a professional training organisation run by teachers with the sole aim of providing a safe and high-quality environment in which your son or daughter can study.
EBC welcomes your questions and has a transparent, open-door policy for all parent enquiries, so if you also want to contact us to ask questions, you are more than welcome to do so.
Sincerely,
Jim Ross,
TEFL Coordinator,
EBC servicios Linguisticos.
Our student referral programme is available to all EBC TEFL course graduates to refer potential new students to EBC.
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EBC will give you a student referral fee of 100 US Dollars per person referred based on the following terms and conditions:
- The applicants you refer must put your name on their application form, or you will not be able to collect your student referral fee. There are no exceptions to this condition.
- You will be paid the student referral fee when the student starts the course.
- If a referred student reverses their course payment, we will reverse your student referral fee.
- We will only pay the student referral fee to a PayPal account you give us.
- You must claim your student referral fee within three months after the course end date. No student referral fees will be paid after this period has expired.
- EBC will only pay one student referral fee per student. If an applicant indicates two or more people referring them, the student referral fee will be divided accordingly. EBC will not get involved in resolving disputes about who receives the payment.
- Student referral fees cannot be back-dated.
- There are no limits to the number of times you can receive a student referral fee. For example: if you refer four students who attend a course, you get 4 x 100 USD ($400).
- The student referral fee only applies to the four-week, intensive course attendees.
- There is no student referral fee for the online course, the blended course and the teaching practise course.
- The student referral programme only applies to students who apply and pay directly through EBC. The programme does not apply to students who apply and pay through any third party agents.
- EBC reserves the right to modify or withdraw the student referral programme at any time.
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Quick Tour: Your Path to TEFL Certification
Get a fast and clear overview of everything you need to know about earning your TEFL certification. From course details to job placement, this guide will help you take the first step toward teaching English abroad with confidence.
Why choose EBC?
EBC is a Trinity College London Trusted Provider with validation to deliver internationally recognised and accredited teaching qualifications.
Our Trinity College London Validated Course Provider number is 65747. Feel free to contact Trinity College London to check for yourself. In addition to premium quality training and accreditation, we have had outstanding success in training and getting graduates working within just a few days of graduating.
Training centres
Virtual classroom
All our online courses are live streaming. You study in a virtual classroom with your trainer and classmates. We use state-of-the-art technologies, Moodle and ZOOM.
Trinity College London accredited teacher training courses
- Accredited online TESOL certification, face-to-face, live-streaming in our virtual classroom
- Accredited teaching business English course
- Accredited CLIL course – Content and Language Integrated Learning
- Accredited teaching English online course
- Accredited CLT course – Communicative Language Teaching
- Marketing and TEFL internship
What the price includes
Virtual classroom courses
All tuition fees, live classes with your trainers and classmates in our Zoom virtual classroom, lifetime access to our online training platform, a course manual, an English reference manual, a guide for teaching Business English, a Welcome pack, job counselling, lifetime job guidance and worldwide job placement, and referral to an immigration lawyer (optional).