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: Maureen McGarvey. Article originally published in issue no. 41 of the IH Journal. We all come from families whose values impact our work ethics and style. This article shares a few of those family values (of Scottish and Irish extraction) which can inspire fellow teachers...
Author: Ilinca Stroe. Films over the past half-century have depicted some of the most common teacher and educator stereotypes: the demanding but creative nanny with superpowers who manages to discipline even the most misbehaving brats (Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee); the dedicated activist teacher who turns around...
Author: Scott Thornbury. Article originally published in issue no. 41 of the IH Journal. It’s sometimes just pleasant to sit and listen to senior counterparts who simply know better because they’ve “been there” and “done that”. And when the experienced teacher is TEFL celebrity Scott Thornbury,...
Author: Ilinca Stroe Any respectable well-established school will ask its teachers to write and hand their students progress reports on a regular basis (once a semester, say). That goes for young learner classes as well as adult groups, and the reports usually have a predetermined structure....
Author: David Petrie. Article originally published in issue no. 41 of the IH Journal. Getting your students prepared for the Reading paper of a Cambridge exam can be a bit of a pain. Because students, especially teenagers, aren’t particularly keen on reading. So how can you...
Author: Katy Simpson. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. We don’t often think about gender equality in a heavily female-populated industry such as ELT. And yet there are a few issues worth considering. How do you manage pregnancy and teaching? And...
“Thank you for this amazing experience, this was one of the best teacher training courses I've attended, by far. :)” (Laura, January 2021 CELTA graduate at IH Bucharest) Author: Ilinca Stroe The Teacher Training Centre of International House Bucharest took off in May 2019. Almost two years, eight...
Author: Emily Herd. Article originally published in issue no. 42 of the IH Journal. Is it your job as a YL English teacher to deal with gender stereotypes and budding sexism in your classes? Well, as long as some textbooks work with gender roles, it might...
Author: Ilinca Stroe There are people who enrol on a CELTA course to become qualified teachers of English without really knowing whether teaching is right for them. Despite the alluring prospect of getting an international certificate which can land them a job anywhere in the world,...
Author: Anastasiya Shalamay. Article originally published in issue no. 48 of the IH Journal. You’re basically a face-to-face teacher who’s had to transfer their in-presence teaching skills online. Have you noticed all the differences between the two ways of teaching? What changes do you have to...
