Teaching practice
Teaching practice is an integral part of the course. This is organised in small groups of 5-6 trainees teaching students at two or three different levels. After each teaching practice session an evaluation of the session is led by your course tutor.
You are expected to liase within your group outside course hours in order to plan teaching practice classes, according to guidelines provided by your course tutors.
Assessment and certificates
Trainees are continuously assessed in all the syllabus areas, including written assignments, and with particular emphasis on their teaching ability and potential.
At the end of the course successful candidates receive the Cambridge Certificate and a Progress Report | See our FAQs section for further details
Course content
- Language analysis and awareness
- The learner, the teacher and the teaching/learning context
- Language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking
- Planning and resources for effective teaching
- Classroom management skills
- Developing teaching skills and professionalism
- Classroom observation
- Teaching practice
Dragan
Dragan has a PGCE in Modern Languages and worked in secondary schools in London, where he taught English and Serbian for 15 years.
He has been a teacher trainer since 2011 and worked at IH London and IH Madrid before starting to work full-time at IH Barcelona in February 2015.
Nigel
Nigel is a tutor on our CELTA courses. He has worked in Spain, Thailand, Japan, Oman and the UK.
Aside from teaching he has been involved in teacher training, designing tailor-made courses for a range of clients such as government ministries and large coorporations and has worked as a DoS. He has also been involved in Cambridge exams for many years.
The tutors were amazing models and source of inspiration, they were always coming up with different ideas of approaching teaching and dealing with the students needs. They raised problems that I'd never thought about before and they provided theory and practice as well.
—Post-course feedback, April 2018
Meet our other CELTA course tutors.
Emma
Emma did her own CELTA and DELTA course at IH London and taught and trained there between 2006-2015.
She also worked in Korea and Saudi Arabia, as well as her native Dublin, before coming to Barcelona in 2015.
Emma teaches on both face-to-face and online CELTA courses and is also the main tutor on our trainer training course.
Claire
Claire taught English in Taiwan, Turkey and the UK before coming to Barcelona in 2004.
She has been a CELTA course tutor since 2000, in both London and Barcelona, and has worked on part time, full time and blended CELTA courses.
Jane
Jane has been a CELTA tutor for about 20 years, a DELTA tutor for over 10, as well as being a CELTA and DELTA course assessor for Cambridge.
She is a freelance teacher trainer and has taught and trained in many countries, particularly in South America.
Outstanding
In theory, all CELTA courses are the same (they're externally assessed by Cambridge English). But the quality of the support and feedback you get from your tutors is one of the things that distinguishes this from CELTA courses at other centres.
Shaun
Shaun has been in ELT since 1999 and has worked in many teaching and training contexts outside of Spain - with longer stints in the UK (London), Italy (Milan) and Japan.
He's a CELTA assessor, presents at conferences including IATEFL, is currently taking an MA in Applied Linguistics at Nottingham University, blogs and can be found on Twitter.
