The benefits you will have if you prepare learners for a City & Guilds IESOL:

       it helps boost your sense of professional achievement
       your learners will work harder if they know they are preparing for an exam and they have a target
         to reach
       your reputation as an excellent teacher will grow commensurately with the number of successful
         learners passing our international English exams
       your learners will develop an even higher esteem for your professionalism if you have a proven
         record of successful exam preparation
       with the number of successful exams you will be able to prove your high worth to your employer
         by using the exams as an objective measure of performance
       you will be able to reward your students with a recognised certificate, which is key to their future
         successes in studies as well as their motivation
       support materials available on www.cityandguildsenglish.com will save you time in preparing
         for your classes and give you more confidence and inspiration for the exam preparation process
 

Features - benefits:

Communicative exam:
 

       Your students will be able to become functional users of English.
       Your students are assessed based on what they CAN DO in and with the language rather than
         looking for what they do not know.
       In preparing for a communicative exam you will find that your English classes will also become
         in communicative in nature and methodology - the ultimate demand of learners, school directors
         and parents.
       Classrooms applying the communicative method are more enjoyable for learners, which
         increases performance and motivation, while reduces absenteeism

mapped to the CEFR:

       you will be able to give your learners globally recognised standardised exam
       teaching along CEFR requirements will make your classes more aligned with internationally 
        accepted teaching practice
       you will have the flexibility to use any support material for your classes/exam preparation that is
        equally mapped to the CEFR
       your students will be objectively assessed by external markers trained by City & Guilds along
        CEFR guidelines

Assessment of functional language use:

       Reduced exam specific preparation
       mistakes are viewed as tools for further learning and development rather than sources of
        punishment through score-deductions during exams - as long as they do not interfere with
        meaning transfer

Use of Performance Codes: 

       Guidance and encoded reporting on how each student performed in each task of the Written
        or the Spoken exams can aid more targeted efforts on further study progression
       Information provided by City & Guilds markers on how well each of your student performed in
        a particular task of the Written and/or Spoken exam

Offered by approved centres:

       The students can sit for the exam at the school they attend (your institution)
       The students can sit for the exam with their own teachers
       You may have opportunities for professional networking with other institutions in the network
        of City & Guilds approved centres
       Both of which reduce exam anxiety and increase performance during the exams

Conducted by Interlocutors (examiners without assessment responsibilities):

If your school is an approved City & Guilds exam centre, your students will be able to sit for the exam at your school and under your supervision, either as invigilator (during the Written exam) or as interlocutor (during the Spoken Exam). This will:

       Reduce stage fright by students during the exam
       give you the authority to conduct an international examination at your institution as the
         students' teacher
       provide further opportunities for you to obtain extracurricular wages
       train you into an expert on how you can bring classroom atmosphere into the
         examination room
       enable you to concentrate on your candidate's language performance, as you do not
         need to assess

On-Demand:

Your students can sit for the exam at any time of the year by which you will be able to:

       examine students as and when they reach the desired level or progress from one level
         to the next
       adjust your exam dates to course completion or progress rather than complete the language
         course by a set exam date irrespective
       have the flexibility to enrol students for exams at different levels according to the progress they
         have made so no student is left unrewarded

Flexibility of Spoken and Written being 2 separate exams:

You will have the flexibility to focus on skills-specific exam preparation (on Reading, Listening, Writing on the one hand and Speaking on the other)

You will be able to reward your students with a Written exam even if they still need to develop their speaking skills at a particular level (or enrol them for a Spoken exam at a lower level).

IF registered for both Written and Spoken exams students can apply for an International ESOL Diploma free of charge. (N.B. The Diploma is a combination of City & Guilds International ESOL and International Spoken ESOL, assessing all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing)

In case of a Fail only the Spoken or the Written exam needs to be repeated rather than the whole

Internationally recognised:

your successes as a teacher will give your learners direct advantages: through career and academic opportunities entailed by City & Guilds IESOL exams

International ESOL Diploma: your students will have an exam that is required for obtaining UK visas for study and/or work (for non-EU residents only)