Is the CELTA course just for new teachers?
Vassiliki Mantzaris“It was a wonderful experience for me. I feel that it has really helped me grow as a teacher and made me want to continue growing and becoming better.”
V. Mantzaris, CELTA student, 15 Apr 2015
Vassiliki returned to Patras where she is pursuing a very successful career in what she describes as a‘great language school’, the Stamatakis School of Foreign Languages. when asked if she found her course useful, she said “I still think about the course every single day, as an experience and as a reminder in my daily lesson preparation”
Yusef
Yusef Turray in action
“The course is an eye-opener and a stepping stone to professionalism in the field of teaching. One won’t regret doing such a course that broadens your chances of excellence.”
Yusef continues a great career as an EFL teacher in Saudi Arabia
Michelle
“This course is really tough but it really prepares you with a good foundation to start teaching. I’m currently preparing to give my professional exams for my teaching license in the United States and the knowledge from this course is helping me in this area too. Well worth the money and your temporary stress!”
M. Politis, CELTA student, 15 Apr 2015
As a result of the course, Michelle found a teaching job at the American Community Schools and later worked hard and got her teaching licence for the US. Michelle was a typical example of someone who worked a little bit on the side as a teacher but, in her own words, ‘without really knowing what she was doing”!!!! (I think we have all been there at one or another time in our lives!!!!
You can see Michelle in our advert and watch a minute from one of her lessons on the CELTA course.
Here she is in one of her teaching practices >> you can see what a great teacher she is even in one minute! 🙂
Lina
Our last example is a very experienced and well trained teacher who came from a frontistirion experience of teaching English but who had a degree in teaching French as a Foreign Language!!!! Lina was a prime example of someone who made the most out of her course.
“This course gave me the opportunity to improve my teaching skills and to be able to work abroad which was an unforgettable experience. The tutors were all very helpful and of a high level of professionalism.”
G. Sapounadelli
Lina later became one of the teacher/managers & recruiters for EF English First Schools in the UK
Here is a great video she made for a lesson – you can download her lesson plan and wonderful materials and view the video she created below
Lina TP 8 Lesson Plan with Xtranormal (lesson plan and materials)
So what are you waiting for? Life is too short to wait to become a good teacher in 5 or 10 years’ time.
As a novice teacher of English, I spent a full academic year working without having received any training – the reasons are of no interest and they are similar to what anyone in the same position might say.
But that year still burns my mind with the guilt of all the things I now know I was doing wrong.
As Costas Gavrielatos says in his paper on “Standards and Development in ELT” (2002)
Teachers, however, as providers of a paid service, are fully accountable for the content and process of teaching, and at least partly accountable for its outcome. This is where the analogy breaks down. As a learner client, I’m not concerned with what my teachers’ level will be in a few years; I’m concerned with what it is now.
Reference
Gavrielatos, C, 2002, Standards and Developments in ELT, ELT News 165, November 2002, p. 11
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