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	CEC-EPN, Continuing Education Center - National Polytechnic School (Centro de Educación Continua - Escuela Politécnica Nacional). A division of National Polytechnic School is the Center for Continuing Education, CEC EPN <ref></ref> who has an agreement with ],<ref>]]</ref><ref>]]</ref> a non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. Founded in 1986 by a group of ] students, WorldTeach places volunteers in communities throughout the world in year long and summer programs. Approximately 400 volunteers are placed yearly, with more than 7,000 placed to date. All volunteers must be enrolled in or have completed four year college programs, with most volunteers being recent graduates.		CEC-EPN, Continuing Education Center - National Polytechnic School (Centro de Educación Continua - Escuela Politécnica Nacional). A division of National Polytechnic School is the Center for Continuing Education, CEC EPN <ref></ref> who has an agreement with ],<ref>]]</ref><ref>]]</ref> a non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. Founded in 1986 by a group of ] students, WorldTeach places volunteers in communities throughout the world in year long and summer programs. Approximately 400 volunteers are placed yearly, with more than 7,000 placed to date. All volunteers must be enrolled in or have completed four year college programs, with most volunteers being recent graduates.

		⚫	There are currently over 7,000 students enrolled at the English program at CEC, not counting the University Students who study at National Polytechnic School. The classes are in eight week segments with four different exams for each. The sections are designed into a series of levels with beginner, intermediate one and two, advanced one and two and many Academic Levels levels. Part of the class is designed to work with listening exercises where the students are asked to answer specific questions from the conversation exercise. Each teacher at CEC is able to take a free Spanish Class everyday.
	== National Polytechnic School Volunteer to teach in Ecuador ==

	There is a program for people with a Bachelors degree to be able to teach English while earning money in Quito, Ecuador.
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	Center for Continuing Education CEC at (CEC), National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador. Starting at intermediate one, all of the teachers are ] (also '''native language''', '''mother tongue''', '''arterial language''', or '''L1''') is the ](s) a person has learned from birth.
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⚫	There are currently ~~almost~~ 7,000 students enrolled at CEC. The classes are in eight week segments with four different exams for each. The sections are designed into a series of levels with beginner, intermediate one and two, advanced one and two and many Academic Levels levels. Part of the class is designed to work with listening exercises where the students are asked to answer specific questions from the conversation exercise. Each teacher at CEC is able to take a free Spanish Class everyday.

	== The TEFL course at CEC EPN==		== The TEFL course at CEC EPN==

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National Polytechnic School
(Spanish: Escuela Politécnica Nacional)
Motto	"E scientia hominis salus" (in Latin)
Type	Public university
Established	1869
Rector	Engineer Jamie Calderon Segovia, M.A.
Undergraduates	10000
Postgraduates	2500
Location	Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador 0°12′38″S 78°29′20″W / 0.21056°S 78.48889°W / -0.21056; -78.48889
Campus	Urban, 152,000 square metres (38 acres)
Mascot	Owl
Website	epn.edu.ec (in 5 languages)

The National Polytechnic School (Spanish: Escuela Politécnica Nacional), also known as EPN, is a public university located in Quito, Ecuador.

History

The National Polytechnic School was founded on August 27, 1869 by the National Convention of the Ecuador and the Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno. For this purpose, Garcia Moreno brought members of a German Jesuit religious order who managed the university and the Quito Astronomical Observatory. Juan Bautista Menten, Teodoro Wolf and Luis Sodiro are among the first scientists that come to the National Technical University. The newborn institution was conceived as the first research center of Ecuador and was created with the purpose of contributing to the scientific and technological development of the country.

EPN is the second-oldest public university in Ecuador, after Central University of Ecuador.

The university remained closed during some decades, until 1935, when Ecuadorian President José María Velasco Ibarra re-opened it.

In 1964, the university moved from its campus "La Alameda" to the current Polythecnic Campus, being the rector José Rubén Orellana Ricaurte.

EPN is considered the best university in Ecuador due to it is on the top of A universities in the last ratings made by CEAACES (Board of Assessment, Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education in Ecuador) in 2013.

Geophysicics Institute

National Polytechnic School houses an international team of seismologists and volcanologists at the Geophysicics Institute with the task of monitoring all the seismic activity in the county. Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter magnitude scale. There are many geologists who study the eruptive activity for the volcanos in the country and observe volcanic eruptions, especially Tungurahua whose volcanic activity restarted on August 19, 1999, and is ongoing as of 2013, with several major eruptions since that period, the last starting on 1 February 2014.

CEC-EPN & World Teach

CEC-EPN, Continuing Education Center - National Polytechnic School (Centro de Educación Continua - Escuela Politécnica Nacional). A division of National Polytechnic School is the Center for Continuing Education, CEC EPN who has an agreement with WorldTeach, a non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. Founded in 1986 by a group of Harvard University students, WorldTeach places volunteers in communities throughout the world in year long and summer programs. Approximately 400 volunteers are placed yearly, with more than 7,000 placed to date. All volunteers must be enrolled in or have completed four year college programs, with most volunteers being recent graduates.

There are currently over 7,000 students enrolled at the English program at CEC, not counting the University Students who study at National Polytechnic School. The classes are in eight week segments with four different exams for each. The sections are designed into a series of levels with beginner, intermediate one and two, advanced one and two and many Academic Levels levels. Part of the class is designed to work with listening exercises where the students are asked to answer specific questions from the conversation exercise. Each teacher at CEC is able to take a free Spanish Class everyday.

The TEFL course at CEC EPN

Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) refers to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The TEFL course at CEC, Teaching English as a foreign language is available two times a year, September and February. TEFL teachers may be native or non-native speakers of English. In order to teach at CEC and earn money you must be a native speaker with at least a Bachelor's degree. The TEFL course at CEC is a 150-hour program that includes a unique CCA (Cross-cultural Awareness) module and 6 hours of officially observed classroom practicum.

As a general rule schools will tend to prefer qualifications that involve a significant amount of assessed teaching: it is often said that "Learning to teach without classroom practice is like learning to drive without ever encountering traffic". Shorter courses and online courses often lack assessed teaching practice. Course makers have recognized this and have begun introducing combined TEFL courses which have an element of assessed teaching.

Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) refers to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. TEFL usually occurs in the student's own country, either within the state school system, or privately, e.g., in an after-hours language school or with a tutor. TEFL teachers may be native or non-native speakers of English. In order to teach at CEC and earn money you must be a native speaker with at least a Bachelor's degree. The TEFL course at CEC is a 150-hour program that includes a unique CCA (Cross-cultural Awareness) module and 6 hours of officially observed classroom practicum.

The program at CEC-EPN for TEFL has a big focus on Language education, a teaching and learning of a foreign or second language. Language education is a branch of applied linguistics. TEFL that uses literature aimed at children and teenagers is rising in popularity. Youth-oriented literature offers simpler material ("simplified readers" are produced by major publishers), and often provides a more conversational style than literature for adults. Children's literature in particular sometimes provides subtle cues to pronunciation, through rhyming and other word play. One method for using these books is the multiple-pass technique. The instructor reads the book, pausing often to explain certain words and concepts. On the second pass, the instructor reads the book completely through without stopping. Communicative language teaching (CLT) emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. Despite a number of criticisms, it continues to be popular, particularly in Japan, Taiwan, and Europe. The task-based language learning (TBLL) approach to CLT has gained ground in recent years. Proponents believe CLT is important for developing and improving speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills, and that it prevents students' merely listening passively to the teacher without interaction. Dogme is a similar communicative approach that encourages teaching without published textbooks, instead focusing on conversational communication among the learners and the teacher.

Campus

The campus, called "José Rubén Orellana", is located at the sector center-oriental of Quito. It occupies an area of 15.2 hectares and has a built area of around 62,000 metres. Its student body numbers approximately 10,000 of which thirty percent are women.

At the campus there are some libraries with a content primarily oriented to the engineering and scientific topics.