What impact can four weeks of intensive teacher training have on a teaching career? Aranca Muradian, English teacher at Shakespeare School, shares her CELTA journey and reflects on the lessons, challenges and memorable moments that have stayed with her over the past ten years. My CELTA Journey: Looking Back After…
As a teacher, you have planned your lesson carefully. You know what language you want to teach, you have chosen your activities and prepared your materials. But there is one question that needs to come before all of those: Who are you actually teaching? It sounds obvious. Yet it is…
A learner is halfway through a story: Learner: Yesterday I go to the cinema with my sister.Teacher: Went.Learner: Sorry?Teacher: You went to the cinema. Past tense.Learner: Right. Yesterday I went… um… The correction is accurate. But was that the best moment to give it? That depends. One of the easiest…
Short answer first: TEFL isn’t a single certificate, it’s a category. Anyone can call a course “TEFL,” and quality varies enormously between providers. CELTA is one specific, standardised qualification within that category, accredited and quality-controlled by Cambridge Assessment English. Every CELTA course, anywhere in the world, is held to the…
