ESL毕业证书可为候选人提供职业，使其成为英语作为第二语言（ESL）课堂老师，ESL资源老师或负责在常规教室或特殊环境中提供ESL指导和支持的老师。候选人获得了在阅读，写作和听力方面发展ESL技能以及使社区和家庭作为合作伙伴的知识，技能和性格。他们还将以美国英语学习者的历史观点离开该计划。候选人将发展特定技能，以评估英语学习者的能力和内容领域知识以及各种计划模型的知识。他们将熟悉当前在ESL教学中的研究，并了解如何在课堂实践中构建理论，以发展所有学生的口语和读写能力。
If so, this program can help prepare you to serve bilingual and multicultural students in the classroom.<br><br>Our degree program prepares you for a career as a bilingual or English as a second language (ESL) classroom teacher, bilingual or ESL resource teacher, or a teacher responsible for providing bilingual or ESL instruction and support in the regular classroom or special settings. The demand for such skills is growing across the country. You must demonstrate intermediate language proficiency in a second language if you want to teach in bilingual settings. Our program can also help you meet the Arizona Bilingual Endorsement requirements. The ESL graduate certificate prepares candidates for a career as an English as a second language (ESL) classroom teacher, ESL resource teacher, or a teacher responsible for providing ESL instruction and support in the regular classroom or special settings. Candidates gain the knowledge, skills and dispositions for developing ESL skills across reading, writing, and listening, and for involving community and families as partners. They will also leave the program with a historical perspective of English learners in the U.S. Candidates will develop specific skills for assessing English learner proficiency and content area knowledge, and knowledge of various program models. They will become familiar with current research in ESL instruction, and understand how theory can be structured in classroom practice to develop the oral language and literacy skills of all students.