Designed for both aspiring and working teachers, courses in this certificate program emphasize communicative, student-centered, and culturally sensitive learning. This highly regarded program awards a Certificate in Teaching English (CTE) for successful completion of a structured curriculum of five courses, including a minimum of 50 hours of student teaching. The program equips students with skills readily applicable to online and in-person classroom teaching and tutoring in the United States and abroad.

Students can take courses on a non-credit basis, and matriculated students at The New School can take courses for undergraduate credit to earn the CTE while completing their degree.