Here’s an uncomfortable exercise: record yourself teaching one lesson, then time how much of it is you talking. Most teachers are surprised by the number — and most language teaching approaches over the last few decades have pushed in one direction: talk less, let students talk more. The concept has…
If you are thinking about teaching English, changing careers or developing your classroom skills, you may already have come across five letters that appear regularly in English Language Teaching: CELTA. But what exactly is CELTA? Is it a university degree? Is it the same as TEFL? Do you need teaching…
If your instinct when a class gets noisy is to talk over it, you’re not alone, but it’s usually the least effective tool available to you. Classroom management isn’t about controlling volume. It’s about the decisions you make around structure, instructions, space, and pace, so that the room rarely gets…
From a trainee’s point of view! This question sounds the same as asking yourself: “Why should I do something to grow?” So what is Cambridge CELTA anyway? It’s an international qualification, which is recognized anywhere in the world, allowing you thus to teach English literally anywhere! For some candidates, it…
