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…
“To err is human… but to correct is teacherly”. This is the twist that we, as English language teachers, add to the old saying (Alexander Pope will just have to forgive us for taking artistic licence with his work). Now we all know that our students make mistakes. No matter…
