Great post full of good ideas on how to get started as a blogger by Martin Sketchley Last week, I was inducting some new teachers into our school: preparing them for their teaching career for the year ahead. We looked at various areas about teaching: classroom management, get to know you activities, games in the classroom,Continue reading “Why Should Teachers Blog?”
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10 Reasons Why You Should Look for a Job in a Summer School
CELT International More and more teachers are considering applying for a teaching job in summer schools in the UK or other countries. But, what does it take for your application to be successful? A quick search through various ads for summer school teachers will show that the only essential qualification for your application to be acceptedContinue reading “10 Reasons Why You Should Look for a Job in a Summer School”
New Course Dates for our Cambridge CELTA courses in 2017
2016 was a great year for us. With our CELTA courses growing steadily every year since we first received our Cambridge approvals, it meant that our old centre, the neo-classical building on Academias street where we trained hundreds of students since CELT moved there in 1993, was too small to contain all the training activityContinue reading “New Course Dates for our Cambridge CELTA courses in 2017”
Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Originally posted on The Best Ticher:
I headed abroad to start my first teaching job five years ago, but in many ways it seems like it was only yesterday. Everything was rather a last-minute decision, which resulted in applying for and receiving my visa, purchasing my plane tickets and boarding my first ever flight all…
TEFL Is An Iceberg – Reflections on CELTA and Standards
Originally posted on The Teacher James:
When I worked in Costa Rica, my school required teachers to be CELTA or equivalent qualified. They didn’t care where the person was from, whether they were local, a native speaker or a non-native speaker, as long as you had the qualification and experience, then you could work there.…
Surviving The Summer School
Achieve Excellence on Your CELTA
Originally posted on The Celta FAQ:
CELTA has three pass marks. Pass, B pass and an A pass. For some qualifications, passing is all you need to do. Well, for CELTA that is different. Some schools won’t even hire people who only achieve a pass. Let’s look at what you can do to secure a…
Concept Checking Revisited
Originally posted on Recipes for the EFL Classroom:
This is the first (hopefully) in a series of posts going Back to Basics, re-examining techniques and ideas introduced on teacher training courses. Many teachers are introduced to the idea of concept checking in their initial teacher training courses, try it out for a bit, and then forget…
The Cambridge CELTA course: an overview
Final reflections soon after the end of a CELTA course
Growing
Originally posted on ELT Reflections:
Image courtesy of Nicholas A. Tonelli One of the unique things about becoming a teenager in the Canadian province of Alberta is you can get your learner’s driving permit on your fourteenth birthday, and that is exactly what I did. Just as with most young people, the opportunity to move…
The Cambridge CELTA 