Earn your Bilingual or ESL Teacher Endorsement in 6 Courses
The Illinois Resource Center offers a sequence of graduate courses which can be applied toward fulfillment of the Illinois requirements for the bilingual and ESL teacher endorsement. Graduate credit for course work is provided by National Louis University. Courses are held online at The Center Moodle.
Courses are offered fall, winter, spring and summer semesters. A 3 graduate credit hour course costs $670. For Fall courses, you must pay the entire $670 up front. For the Winter, Spring and Summer Courses, you may reserve a seat with a nonrefundable $75 deposit.
Download the 2023-24 Course Catalog
Foundations of ESL and Bilingual Education (National #CIL-500)
Focuses on: the political, social and educational issues that contributed to the formulation of local, state, and federal policy regarding appropriate public school services for language minority populations; specific instructional models and their theoretical and empirical bases; current research on program effectiveness and pupil achievement.
“I have been fortunate to have worked with IRC for over 10 years! I started by taking my ESL/Bilingual endorsement courses and attending critical professional development sessions to support my Dual Language teaching career. Now, as the Director of English Language Learners for School District U-46, I have been able to gain a more global perspective on how IRC positively impacts school districts and the field of education as a whole.”
