Cambridge CELTA Prague, Czech Republic

CELTA, Czech & Younger Learners

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Course Details

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Course ref.	1979
Course Type	Cambridge CELTA
Min Age	18
Maximum Class Size	12
Exam Board Fee Included

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Customer Feedback

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The school and the trainers were excellent. I could not fault anything.

I learnt so much in one month and although it was tiring and at times stressful it was always enjoyable.

Jonathan Lund, 2006

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Course Description

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CELTA plus one week Czech Intensive and Younger Learners course:
This is a new package offered by the school and lasts for 7 weeks:

The package price for the course is £1625 and includes 7 weeks accommodation in a shared apartment.

In week one, students have an intensive Czech course involving 4 hours of Czech in the morning plus site seeing activities in the afternoon.
Weeks 2 to 5 they follow the four-week CELTA programme

The CELTA course provides speakers of English with initial training in teaching English as a foreign language, and leads to the internationally recognised qualification: the Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults). The course is also suited to those who are already in the profession, but who have no formal or practical teaching qualification. The courses are validated, and syllabus and assessment criteria are fixed by, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES)

The course covers the general principles of teaching adult classes from beginner to post-intermediate level. Teaching practice is a significant component. Successful completion of the course indicates readiness to embark on a professional career in ELT, and although further guided experience and in-service training will be necessary, the trainee can begin to teach effectively with a firm basis on which to develop as a teacher of ELT.

Course Content: The course follows the Cambridge CELTA syllabus. Teaching techniques are practised by the course participants in regular teaching practice sessions with adult students of English. An overview of the topics covered:

- The general principles and techniques of teaching and learning a foreign language
- The English language: linguistic form, function, meaning and phonology
- Teaching and learning the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Classroom techniques: presentation, practice, checking learning, error analysis, correction, classroom management, group work and pair work
- Lesson planning; course planning; timetables
- Different learning and teaching styles at adult level, adult learners' motivations and learning styles
- The evaluation and use of published and non-published resources and materials
- Professional development: evaluating one's own strengths and weaknesses, preparing to become a teacher, colleague and employee

Seminars, workshops and observation of experienced teachers take up approximately half the course time. Teaching practice takes up the other half, and is conducted in small groups, each with a teaching practice supervisor. Each trainee teaches for a total of at least six hours with graded classes of students. Teaching practice includes guided preparation, analysis and reflection on teaching practice sessions, and individual tutorials to monitor and discuss progress. Preparation and homework include written assignments and lesson preparation.

Why choose the Cambridge CELTA?
Many organisations offer four-week TEFL training courses; why should you consider doing the Cambridge CELTA ?

The Cambridge CELTA is certainly one of the most widely known initial qualifications. Any potential employer, if they have any knowledge at all of initial TEFL qualifications, is likely to know of the Cambridge CELTA. The courses are validated, and syllabus and assessment criteria are fixed by, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES)

This assures quality control in a number of areas:
- All centres are subject to approval by UCLES, and have to maintain standards in order to retain this approval. If a centre is failing to meet the required standards, approval to run course will be withdrawn by UCLES. Similarly, it is not uncommon for institutions to have their application to run CELTA courses turned down by UCLES.
- Every CELTA course is moderated by an external assessor.
- Every centre is allocated a Joint Chief Assessor who monitors standards at the centre.
- Each CELTA trainer has to be approved by UCLES (which includes meeting UCLES requirements re teaching experience and qualifications) and has to undergo a lengthy induction process.

All the above contribute to the excellent reputation that the Cambridge CELTA enjoys.

Start and end times, both of the day and of individual sessions, may vary from course to course. However, the total hours spent in seminars and TP remains the same. There are no classes on Saturdays and Sundays.

Weeks 6 to 8 they study for a 50-hour certificate in teaching Young Learners
Young Learner’s course Overview:
The course's main objective is to introduce trainees to, and help them evaluate and consider the main principles involved in teaching Young Learners English. The course is not designed with one particular age group in mind. Input sessions cover the complete range of young learners (from 3 - 16 years). The course is validated by the International House World Organisation who fixes syllabus and assessment criteria.

Course Content Input sessions: 20 sessions of approximately one hour and 15 minutes each, amounting to 30 hours of input time. These sessions is run over a period of 10 consecutive days (full-time, intensive format). A selection of the topics covered:

Child Development

Planning for Young Learners
Different approaches to the teaching of Young Learners

Teaching Very Young Learners
Teaching Adolescents
Testing & Assessment

Teaching practice: Each participant will be observed teaching Young Learner classes by an approved tutor for a minimum of 3 hours. These classes are special Teaching Practice classes created for the course. There will be a minimum of 45 minutes tuition time (pre-lesson guidance and post-lesson feedback) given for each hour of teaching.

Observation of experienced teachers: Each participant will observe experienced teachers of Young Learners teaching for a minimum of 4 hours. For each of the hours of observation, participants must complete an assigned observation task.

Tutorials: Each participant will be given a minimum of two tutorials of approximately 30 minutes each - these will involve the discussion of observation tasks and trainees' general progression up to that point of the course.
Written work: Each participant will need to complete two written assignments. These will be set and submitted during the course. In addition, there will be homework tasks set after some input sessions.


Summary of contact hours within the course:
Input time in the form of sessions 30 hours
Input time in the form of tutorials, etc. per trainee 4 hours
Teaching practice per trainee 3 hours
Observation of experienced teachers 4 hours
Observation of fellow trainees on the course 9 hours
Minimum total number of contact hours per trainee 50 hours

Minimum requirements

Course participants must:
- be competent English speakers;
- at least 18 years old;
- have had some initial training and/or experience in teaching;
- display an interest in the teaching of Young Learners.

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School Details - IH Prague

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Our school in Prague is an approved centre for the two most prestigious Cambridge teacher training qualifications: the CELTA and the DELTA.

The school is affiliated by a world organisation, which is widely recognised as one of the foremost independent language teaching and training organisations in the world.

The school's main premises are in the south of the city centre and five minutes' walk from Budejovicka metro station. Both the CELTA and the DELTA are held at the school's permanent premises.

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