Course Aims:

As a graduate of the CELTA program, you can expect to know:

• How to be sensitive to your adult students and their needs
• How to be sensitive to the different ways in which students learn and how to teach each learner
• How to manage your students and classroom
• Basics of grammar, lexis and phonology and how to teach it
• How to teach reading, listening, speaking and writing
• How to evaluate your own lessons before and after the class
• How to adapt and evaluate teaching materials
• Effective lesson planning
• A professional classroom presence

Program Syllabus:

• Are you ready to start learning to teach English?
• Unit 1 Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context
• Unit 2 Language analysis and awareness
• Unit 3 Language skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing
• Unit 4 Planning and resources for different teaching contexts
• Unit 5 Developing teaching skills and professionalism
• Assignments 4 classroom related written assignments and 6 hours of practice teaching

In this 4 Week program you will have a minimum of 120 contact hours including:

• Input
• Supervised lesson planning
• Teaching practice (six assessed hours)
• Feedback on teaching
• Peer observation
• Observation of experienced teachers (minimum six hours)
• Consultation time

*Candidates will need to dedicate a minimum of 80 hours for the required reading, research, pre- and post-session tasks, assignments and lesson preparation.

Student Evaluation:

Students are evaluated through the 6 hours of practice teaching and the 4 written assignments, as well as participation in the Input Sessions and co-operation in the teaching practice groups.

A Pass: Demonstrates a level of teaching ability, understanding, planning and professionalism that is significantly higher than needed to pass the program.
B Pass: Demonstrates teaching skills and professionalism that is significantly high.
Pass: Performance meets the specified criteria, but candidates will need continued support.
Fail: Candidates who fail to meet criteria in any assessed components.