CELTA stands for “Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults”. It is the original certificate course in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) or teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), and it has been running for four decades. It is highly respected and recognized globally, with 7 out of 10 employers worldwide asking applicants to have it.
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Author: Mark Wilson. Article originally published in issue no. 36 of the IH Journal. What is it that defines a good teacher? Is it the competencies? The expertise? The skills? This article urges us to bring back to the core of teacher assessment what we may...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Coaching is usually associated with top Executives and laborious, high-priced individual sessions leading to the achievement of specific management objectives. Nothing to do with language teaching. And yet. What if you, the language teacher, had the power and ability to coach your students into...
Authors: Sandy Millin. Article originally published in issue no. 37 of the IH Journal. Completing the whole DELTA course and acquiring the Diploma involves going through 3 course modules, each with their demanding, challenging, distinct experience. Sharing that complex experience isn’t very common, so take advantage...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Take a moment to think and remember: when was the last time someone dear told you, gazing at you reprovingly, and perhaps in a certain tone of voice, “You’re such a teacher!...
Author: Ilinca Stroe A teacher who wants to keep developing needs to keep on learning – it’s common knowledge. Only by continuing to learn can we keep abreast of the latest developments in our field, avoid getting complacent and stagnating in an uninspiring comfort zone, keep...
Author: Olga Cherrington. Article originally published in issue no. 37 of the IH Journal. We like to think that when our young learners hear the word “competition” they jump right at it. But it is with joy or…? This article questions the use of strong competitiveness...
Author: Sandy Millin. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. You’ve gained quite some teaching experience, you’ve even done your DELTA and you’re now eager to move up the career ladder. What will it be, a DoS post? Before aiming that high,...
Author: Ilinca Stroe This year, while International House (IH) Bucharest has reached 20 years of existence in Romania, its Teacher Training Centre is turning 3. Its activity during this time highlights the striking features that best describe it: tremendously bold and ambitious, very energetic, fast-growing and...
Author: Alex Zagorac. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Memorising new words isn’t something that happens to your students in just one class. Or is it? If we used in our classes a variety of memory techniques, wouldn’t our students remember...
Author: Anya Shaw and Veronique Ward. Article originally published in issue no. 38 of the IH Journal. Are you sometimes at your wits’ ends trying to motivate your teenage students to practise a bit of writing? This entertaining article, apart from a pleasure to read, is...
