Preparing for your CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)interview is crucial to making a strong impression and securing your spot on the course. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you get ready:
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More Than a Marker: The CELTA Tutor as Advocate
When we think about the role of a CELTA tutor, certain words immediately spring to mind: trainer, teacher, assessor, observer. These are all accurate and important descriptors. But one role that often goes unspoken, and perhaps undervalued, is that of advocate. The CELTA tutor is not only someone who assesses a trainee’s performance against aContinue reading “More Than a Marker: The CELTA Tutor as Advocate”
Where can you teach with a CELTA?
A CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is a widely recognized and respected qualification for teaching English as a foreign language. It’s considered the “gold standard” in initial teacher training for ESL/EFL. With a CELTA, you can teach English in a variety of settings around the world and online:3 1. Private LanguageContinue reading “Where can you teach with a CELTA?”
How to Prepare for a Cambridge CELTA interview
Preparing for your CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) interview is crucial to making a strong impression and securing your spot on the course. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you get ready: 1. Understand the CELTA Interview Structure. which typically consists of: 2. Review Basic English Grammar You willContinue reading “How to Prepare for a Cambridge CELTA interview”
Ideas for Using and Adapting your Coursebook
During your CELTA course, you will be given teaching practice points from a coursebook. You tutors will certainly help you with guidelines and suggestions on how to adapt and use it in class. Still, you might want to go the extra mile and impress them by choosing some alternative – and, hopefully, more creative ideasContinue reading “Ideas for Using and Adapting your Coursebook”
New CELTA preparation course by Cambridge
The past few years have seen a huge rise in the number of CELTA candidates from around the world – more than 10000 every year. This, as is a common practice in ELT, has generated a secondary ‘industry’ targeting those hoping to be accepted on a CELTA programme but not sure how to go aboutContinue reading “New CELTA preparation course by Cambridge”
It is a truth universally acknowledged….
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged’ that some structures are more trouble to acquire than others. A classic example is the Present Simple, which, according to morpheme acquisition research is one of the last grammar structures to be acquired fully by foreign language learners. In this article, written a very long time ago but recentlyContinue reading “It is a truth universally acknowledged….”
Preparing to Teach Online after your CELTA
Many new CELTA holders, hundreds in fact each month, are out in the world looking for jobs! And since many of the courses are delivered fully online these days, it makes sense that our trainees will be looking for online work. There is plenty of that about, but which online outfit to choose is aContinue reading “Preparing to Teach Online after your CELTA”
The CELTA interview – a key step in getting accepted
In this post, I will be looking at the last few steps in the selection process for a CELTA course. To reach that stage, you will have completed and sent an application form back to your chosen centre, and you will have received or downloaded their pre-interview task to complete either over a number ofContinue reading “The CELTA interview – a key step in getting accepted”
CELTA in Athens @ CELT Athens of course :-)
Some people ask me if we made up the name of the school specifically to echo the name of the Cambridge CELTA. The answer is “No, we did not!” CELT was first established in 1989 by Marisa Constantinides & fellow teacher and teacher trainer Danae Kozanoglou. In 1993, this partnership was dissolved and Marisa ConstantinidesContinue reading “CELTA in Athens @ CELT Athens of course :-)”
The Cambridge CELTA 