
New in 2024: Exclusive discounts for newsletter subscribers
Our goal has always been to offer the very best professional development experience we can, to pay instructors for their expertise, and to keep our courses affordable and accessible. To reward our most loyal community members, we offer discounts for early registration wherever possible. Just sign up for the iTDi Newsletter (below), and in 2024 we'll send you discount coupon codes for the courses you've indicated interest in.





All iTDi Live Courses include
Sign up for the iTDi Newsletter
All of our live courses are limited to 30 participants, and often become sold out before they are ever promoted.
So, sign up for our newsletter and indicate which of our upcoming courses you are interested in.
Next year we will send you discount coupons you can use during early registration.
You can unsubscribe at any time, or update your preferences to add yourself to (or remove yourself from) a waiting list.
Newsletter
In addition to the iTDi Community Newsletter, join the waiting list to receive advanced notification and discounts for the courses listed below.
Success!
You will receive the iTDi Community Newsletter and information about the course (or courses) that you selected.
Join us for our biggest sale of the year!

Whether you are getting a head start on next year’s professional development, or stocking up for the year-end holidays, this is your best opportunity to invest in discounted iTDi courses and books in 2023. Buy during our sale and access these products at your convenience.
Shop before the sale ends!
The content of some of our most popular teaching skills courses in a self-access format.
- You get:
- Unlimited access to all recording and resouces
- Discussion questions to help you reflect on what you are learning
- An option to receive a certificate verifying 20 professional development hours.
Two price levels:
Personal learning: $59 USD $29.50 USD
Certified learning (evaluation + a certificate verifying 20 Professional Development Hours: $79 USD $39.50 USD
50% DISCOUNT DURING THE SALE
Register before November 30th and receive a discount for cohorts starting in March 2024.
140-hour certified TESOL course
- You get:
- 45 practical and interactive, self-study lessons online, including instructional videos by Scott Thornbury and Adrian Doff
- 17 x 90-minute tutorials, live via video-conference
- 7 hours of teaching skills practice with constructive feedback
- 6 hours of individually-assessed teaching practicums
- 2 individually-assessed written assignments
$250 USD discount on your first installment if paid by December 31st.
30-hour introductory TESOL course
- You get:
- 9 practical and interactive, self-study lessons online, including instructional videos by Scott Thornbury and Adrian Doff
- 4 x 90-minute tutorials, live via video-conference
- 1 hour of teaching skills practice with constructive feedback
- An individually assessed teaching practicum
- An individually-assessed self-reflection & evaluation task
- PLUS
- A Module 1 EXEMPTION for the 140-hour TESOL Certificate
$50 USD discount if paid by December 31st.
Try before you buy
Experience one of the online lessons from the TESOL Certificate course + a live tutorial with our Certificate Director, Philip Shigeo Brown, and iTDi Founder, Steven Herder. It’s free.

Re-Envisioning EFL Education in Asia
Edited by Theron Muller, John Adamson, Steven Herder, and Philip Shigeo Brown
This third book by our editorial team moves the conversation from innovating in 2012 and exploring in 2014 to re-envisioning EFL teaching and learning through chapters that address contemporary 21st century issues. Here Asia comes into its own as a vibrant center of language teaching pedagogy and research. Further, how borders are envisioned and drawn is critiqued through chapters that, for example, explore multiethnic China and the Asian diaspora’s experiences when studying outside Asia. Its chapters speak to teachers and researchers interested in how to re-envision language teaching in their own contexts.

101 EFL Activities for Teaching University Students
Hall Houston
101 EFL Activities for Teaching University Students is filled with a variety of language learning activities that can be used throughout the semester. While designed with university teachers in mind, teachers of other subjects (and levels) will also find these activities useful in their classrooms. The activities in this book relate to three major themes: the context of the university environment (students learn by talking about their lives as university students), group dynamics – the stages of a group (the stages all students go through during a semester), and active learning (learning through actively using the course material, instead of listening to a professor deliver a lecture).

Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in Learning
John F. Fanselow
Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in Learning is a unique resource book aimed at both novice and experienced teachers of English as another language. It can be used in formal/informal teacher education groups or by individual teachers.
As you master the activities and types of feedback introduced in this book, you will be able to move from teaching as a ritual to teaching as discovery. You will decrease the time you spend making lesson plans, quizzes and tests, looking for the ideal syllabus, and preparing worksheets and handouts and, as a result, you will have more time to analyze transcriptions and video clips of what you and your students are doing.
BuddyDrive uses this page to manage the downloads of your buddies files, please leave it as is. It will not show in your navigation bar.
iTDi TESOL Certificate Course
Special Live Tutorial Events
What's so special about an iTDi TESOL Certificate?
Ever wonder why teachers rave about the iTDi TESOL Certificate course? Here’s your chance to find out why teachers choose iTDi.
First, try a free self-paced lesson written by our Academic Director, Scott Thornbury. Then, join TESOL Certificate Course Director, Phil Brown, and iTDi Founder and Director, Steven Herder for a special live tutorial to experience a unique course that has earned five-star endorsements from every teacher who has taken it.

The next Live Tutorial is based on a TESOL Certificate course lesson about presenting vocabulary. Register/Sign up below to access the lesson and tutorial for free.
Learning by doing
We offer Special Live Tutorials for teachers who want to go deeper into how to apply specific principles and skills to your own teaching.
Just like our tutorials on the iTDi TESOL Certificate courses, we workshop these with a more interactive and hands-on learning-centred approach than a typical webinar or lecture.

With all our LIVE events and courses, participants overwhelmingly come out feeling energized and eager to put things practice immediately with their own students, happy to get to know other teachers, deepen their professional network, and confident about growing within the iTDi Community and beyond!


You’ll complete a self-paced online lesson from our TESOL Certificate Course. Then, you’ll join your fellow teachers and tutors in an interactive session.
Like our regular course participants, you’ll have opportunities to actively participate in a safe and supportive environment with experienced mentors and tutors.

Learning how to present vocabulary effectively is, of course, just one part of a teacher’s professional development journey. Whether you’re a newbie or have been teaching for years, at iTDi we provide opportunities for you to thrive wherever your career takes you. And in order for teachers to really thrive – just like our students – we need a supportive community where we can make mistakes, share successes, learn and grow with new opportunities!
Hungry to take your teaching career to the next level?
Take a TESOL Certificate Course with iTDi. We offer group cohorts and private courses. Experience:
- World-class content written by a team of ELT experts led by Scott Thornbury
- Highly-experienced and dedicated mentors and personal tutors
- Ongoing community support from tutors, mentors, and teachers

30-Hour Introductory TESOL Certificate Course
- Get a basic introduction to English language teaching
- Learn how to plan a simple lesson, teach vocabulary and grammar
- Take the first steps into reflective teaching practice
140-Hour TESOL Certificate Course
- Develop practical teaching skills, knowledge, and understanding
- Explore your own teaching and reflective practice
- Gain greater confidence to share and discuss teaching practice, as well as basic theory and research

Videos to support the John F. Fanselow's book:
Small Changes in Teaching Big Results in Learning
1 Description of Videos ES
2 Oral Reading
3 Read and Look Up
4 Read and Look Up Pointing
5 Read and Look Up Chanting
6 Read and Look Up Mistakes Writing
7 Incomplete or Complete Information
8 Self Reliance Now I Learned How to Do It
9 Students Writing Teachers Questions
10 Touch Typing
11 Redundancy - Nothing, Not and Rather
12 Learning as Discovery Dismounted
13 School Knowledge World Knowledge
14 The Richness of Images Sketches for Creating Language
15 Using Icons Images for Generating Language
16 Transcribing
17 Some Ways to Group Discussions
18 Some More Ways to Group Discussions
19 Obsession with Tests
20 Alternatives to Pre-Reading Language Activities
21 Alternatives to Pre-Reading Language Activities
22 Alternative to Post-Reading Activities
23 Alternatives to Vocabulary Cards
24 Flawed English Flawed Thinking
25 Alternatives to Tests and Grading
26 Gestures Count for Nothing
27 Conversations about Part 2 Chapter 9 Analyzing
28 Moving Beyond the Headache Stage of Coding
29 From Uyo to Tokyo

Please complete the Registration form. Shortly after submitting, you will receive a confirmation email. (Please remember to check your spam/junk folder just in case.)
We will then contact you within 3-5 working days to confirm the best options for you. You can also contact us directly: Contact Us