TESOL Residency and Advanced Certification Programs

Join our collaborative and supportive education community to prepare for TESOL certification, deepen your teaching practice, and respond to the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional needs of students in dual language/transitional bilingual education settings.

What Program Is Right for You?

With a Bank Street program, you’ll learn how to help students develop their language abilities and inspire a lifelong love of learning.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Residency Program (MSEd)

In this teacher residency program, aspiring teachers seeking TESOL accreditation to work with English as a new language (ENL) students in grades pre-K–12 will:

Be hired as a teacher apprentice who receives a salary while working in a public high school
Be eligible to be hired as a full-time teacher in their second year
Receive a scholarship that reduces tuition by over 50%, along with a stipend of up to $30,000

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Advanced Certificate

For accredited teachers who are interested in deepening their skills to work with English as a new language (ENL) students in grades pre-K-12
Strengthening advocacy and program planning skills as well as proficiency with state/national standards and assessments for ENL students
Leads to TESOL certification

Our Approach

We’re for educators who want to spend every day face to face with the future.

Bank Street holds a unique and highly regarded place in the world of education. We were trailblazers when we were founded in 1916—and our ideas, which were once radical, are widely practiced and accepted today. If you want to shape the future of education, this is where you start.
We’re for democracy and equity.

Our commitment to democracy and social justice is at the heart of our innovative pedagogy and desire to help all learners, both children and adults, actively make sense of the world. Equity and equality are always in a Bank Street educator’s mind—we meet students “where they are” in their learning with strengths-based activities and socially, emotionally, and culturally appropriate support.
We're for sharing good ideas.

For a small institution, our reach is broad. Our mix of graduate and continuing education coursework, research programs, and professional partnerships with school districts across the country aims to expand and improve educational opportunities for all students.

Why Bank Street?

Helping Students Transition

In developing your own knowledge of bilingual and English as a new language (ENL) teaching concepts, you’ll become accredited and better prepared to meet your students where they are and help them prepare for advanced learning in many core content areas.

Prepared in the Long Run

In a field that experiences high turnover rates due to underprepared teachers, Bank Street is proud that 87% of its graduates remain in the field of education and 87% feel more confident in their subject area than comparison teachers.

Advocating for New Language Learners

There is high demand nationally for TESOL and bilingual teachers and advocates who are willing to critically examine how social, political, and economic factors impact their students.

Why Choose a Residency Program?

Integrate Learning—Study educational theory coupled with hands-on practice
Develop Professional Skills—Receive guidance from experienced teachers
Increase Confidence—Build your capacity to think independently and creatively, reflect, and internalize learnings
Be Supervised and Coached—Work with a mentor teacher to sharpen skills, build parent relationships, and more
Offset the High Cost of Graduate School—Receive a stipend to offset living expenses
Collaborate and Build Community—Form meaningful relationships with your professors and a cohort of your peers

Faculty Voices

Usually, English is taught through very prescriptive methods, but that’s just not how language learners work. Our program helps teachers learn how to incorporate students’ diverse linguistic and cultural resources into teaching language. We want our teachers to be critical thinkers and innovators of teaching and learning.

Cristian Solorza

Program Director

212-652-8722
gseenrollment@bankstreet.edu