The English Teacher Training College and its associated Bilingual Classroom Initiative is a not-for-profit Austrian college with campuses in Vorchdorf, Pressbaum, Wolfsberg and Bregenz registered with the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Founded by educators Frank Carle, Ben Stone and Jakob Gfrerer in 2011, the college works in partnership with Austrian students, teachers and schools to promote English culture, language and sport in state schools, while providing subsidized teacher training courses for aspiring teachers.
The activities of the organization revolve around two areas: firstly, as a college, working with Trinity College London and University of Cambridge to provide a practical education in teacher training for student teachers from the English-speaking world. Secondly, as a charity outreach, to promote language learning, cultural exchange and foster understanding between English-speaking countries and Austria by bringing teachers from English-speaking countries into Austrian classrooms to conduct English projects. The college's publicly stated plans are to reach all the children in Austria with a free English project by the year 2020 while providing subsidized Teaching English as a Foreign Language courses for young teachers from around the world.
Between 2011 and 2016, the college's initiative worked with 198,805 Austrian children while providing scholarships to study teaching English as a foreign language from across the English-speaking world in new methodologies like task-based language learning and communicative language teaching.
In 2017, the organized partnered with and was officially recognized by the Austrian Ministry of Education
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- http://www.trinitycollege.com/site/?id=212
- http://www.noen.at/user/krems/schulen/nms-krems-lets-speak-english/4.686.879#
- http://www.gemeinnuetzig.at/the-english-teacher-training-college-and-bilingual-classroom-initiative-abci
- https://www.english-teacher-college.at/about/
- http://zvr.bmi.gv.at/Start
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