HABILITATION & ACCREDITATION '25

Habilitation & Accrediatation in Madrid.

Dear teachers in Spain:

LINGUISTIC HABILITATION is not the same than ACCREDITATION.

If you can prove your current teaching experiences and competence, you may get the Linguistic Habilitation without having to perform any part of the exam. That will depend on the criteria explained in each call.

To understand well the differences, read the last calls:

- Linguistic Habilitation: the last call in Madrid, here. It is usually performed by teachers that want to teach their subject in English or want to teach English to the younger students in Bilingual Schools.

Here I share a video I did last year that can help you to answer some typical and general questions in the oral exams.

Send me your answers in a 15 minutes recording by email; obviously, you don't need to answer all in the first go.

Review these words with me too and see how you do it.

I give you 5 more questions here:

51. How did you live Covid times as a teacher?

52. What have you learned lately about your subject that nurtures your teaching?

53. How were your teachers at school and at high school and at university? What did you learn from them?

54. Is there any app or tool essential in the way you teach or in your daily organisation?

55. Are you promoting creativity and poetic thinking in class? How?

But, if you are already an English teacher in functions, or in lists of temporary Secondary English teaching in Madrid and you have already got the advanced C1 or the proficiency C2 or even some specific English university studies... Congratulations!, you can apply to get the Accreditation to teach in public and associated Bilingual Schools the Advanced curriculum of English.

Curriculum that is divided into 4 sections, each based on a communicative skill:

- Section 1. Comprehension of Oral Texts.

- Section 2. Production of Oral Texts.

- Section 3. Comprehension of Written Texts.

- Section 4. Production of Written Texts.

see more about the materials of the advanced curriculum here.

All these skills should be trained in an integrated way. It is essential that you read that curriculum to understand well how to write and defend your Didactic Unit.

- Linguistic Accreditation: the last call in Madrid, here. It is usually considered for teachers that want to teach English in the Advanced curriculum in Bilingual Schools.

Check in the Appendix I the university studies required and the guidelines of the English syllabus for Secondary and Baccalaureate, established by the Decree 2876/2018, 27th of July.

And if at the end you are heading for the Accreditation, watch the video above and read the instructions to design the Didactic Unit and how to defend it during 15 minutes in front of the Tribunal.

Remember, it should be an original and individual work from the candidate; of 15 pages length (front page and index not included); DIN-A4, sent through HABI; type font Arial 12 (no less than 10 inside tables).

Should include a front-page in which it must appear your full name and school year of the teaching unit.

Written and defended in English, your Didactic Unit should have:

Paginated Index.

Objectives.

Contents and competences to be developed.

Activities, duration and sequencing.

Materials and didactic resources.

Use of new technologies in the classroom.

Assessment criteria and procedures.

Measurable and assessable standards and learning results.

Bibliography and Webliography.

Appendices

If you need someone to share your presentation, someone that gives you feedback and that controls the timing, remember that I can accompany you in this process. I'll be delighted to be a privileged witness of your success.

Go with a copy on paper of your UNIT the day of he exam and bring a copy of the receipt of having sent your UNIT through HABI platform. Have in mind this at the time of giving your oral presentation or defence:

"Oral presentation of the teaching unit: the candidate must briefly present and defend the teaching unit before the evaluation committee for a maximum time of fifteen minutes. The evaluation committee may ask any questions it deems appropriate about the content of the teaching unit presented by the candidate.

The evaluation committee will assess the candidate's clear, organised, and coherent presentation, as well as the correct and appropriate use of the foreign language.

During the oral presentation of the teaching unit, the candidate may not use communication devices. Neither material resources nor auxiliary material related to the teaching unit may be shown to the corresponding accreditation committee."

They might be having in mind these assessment criteria:

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

– Locate and contextualise the unit with respect to the advanced general curriculum (0.5 points).

– Relate the teaching unit to the general objectives of the stage/qualification and to the competencies (1 point).

– Present the contents coherently (1 point).

– Coherently relate objectives to the contents and the assessment criteria, the assessable learning standards, the assessment instruments, and the grading criteria of the teaching unit (3 points).

– Present the activities, as well as the different sessions that make up the teaching unit (2 points).

– Explain the use of ICT in the teaching unit (1 point).

– Explain the treatment of diversity coherently (1.5 points).

For the presentation, the candidate may ( this is not sure, see instructions given to you in the call) use a script, not exceeding one side of a sheet, in the form of an outline to help organise their presentation, which must be given to the examining board at the end of it.

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EOI CIVIL EXAM IN MADRID 2025
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UNITS 31-39 TEXT, GENRES & ANALYSIS

UNIT 41 & 42: OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH

UNIT 56. THE ROLE OF LITERATURE

UNIT 57. BRITISH SHORT NOVEL

UNIT 58. MODERN NOVEL IN BRITAIN

UNIT 59. MODERN IRISH NARRATIVE

UNIT 60. US NOVEL, STORY & ESSAY

UNIT 61. AMERICAN MODERN NOVEL

UNIT 62. CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY

UNIT 63. CONTEMPORARY THEATRE PLAYS