What Should I Tell Students About My Training?
It can be an awkward moment when students want to know how you’ve been trained to teach them. Native speaker EFL teachers are hired to do work that is substantially different from that of university...
View ArticleThe CELTA: Do People Love To Hate It?
It doesn’t take much to raise a ruckus at the ESL café, but one surprising – to me anyway – recipient of a good amount of wrath is the CELTA – not because it is “only” a four week course (ie not...
View ArticleThe CELTA And Grammar
TEFL trainees are often understandably nervous about grammar. Will you learn grammar in the CELTA or another TEFL certification course? It’s hard to generalize, blah blah blah as usual, but my answer –...
View ArticleThree Reasons To Get Your TEFL Certification Right Now
There are three reasons to get your TEFL certificate now: CELTA, Trinity TESOL, TEFL International, SIT, take your pick, but make your choice soon. As I mentioned in When To Do a TEFL Course, there are...
View ArticleUltimate TEFL Certification Guide
Got a question about TEFL certificates? Find your answer – or a link to it – here. The TEFL Logue has been going strong since the end of last August. There have been one or two or fifty posts on TEFL...
View ArticleCELTA Survival Tips
I recently came across a post with some useful tips designed for those about to embark on the CELTA or other TEFL course. I’m no CELTA trainer, so take my advice with a grain of salt (perhaps a larger...
View ArticleGetting Certified At Home (In The US Or UK)
Someone recently contacted me to ask if it was possible to get certified online at home in the US and then go, certificate in hand, to Europe to find work. In theory it is possible to get certified at...
View ArticleIs A TEFL Certificate Worth It?
Is a TEFL certificate worth its weight in gold…or maybe scrap metal? Pain in Spain’s posts on whether getting a TEFL certificate pays off in the long run are well worth a read. Pain in Spain (sorry,...
View ArticleStudent-Centered Activities
Brigh-eyed and bushy-tailed … or something like that … in the early stages of my TEFL course I came across a bunch of new concepts. It occurs to me now that when people ask “what is a CELTA (or other...
View ArticleSurviving The Feedback On Your Teaching Practice: My Experience
The feedback portion of the CELTA, in my opinion, can be the part that does people in. By that I mean – the part that they cannot stand. I found the feedback difficult at times, especially because of...
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