CELTA

Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Important points to note and remember.

• Three out of four English language teaching jobs globally require a CELTA qualification to consider you for employment.
• CELTA is the most widely recognised English teaching qualification in the world.
• It’s the qualification most often requested by employers.
• CELTA is the qualification you need if you’re a new teacher looking for your first teaching job.
• Even experienced teachers benefit and improve their teaching skills after attending a CELTA course.

Important is also to know that:

A CELTA course can be taken in a variety of delivery methods, such as:

• Full time – usually 4–5 weeks,
• Part time – from a few months to over the course of a year,
• Face 2 face, or
• 100% online, or
• Blended.

And also that:
the CELTA course content includes …

• at least 120 hours of contact time,
• 60 hours, of which would be practical teaching,
• thus working on real-life teaching experience

while assessment focuses on …

• written assignments and
• on face-to-face teaching