What is the CELTA?

The CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course is the original "TEFL" course. The CELTA provides initial training leading to a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. It is intended for those without previous experience who wish to enter the profession and for teachers with no previous training in this field.

Success in the Certificate has enabled many candidates to obtain their first teaching position: the course is highly regarded by employers as providing sound initial training and a strong basis from which to develop as a teacher of English.

Course content

Language Analysis and Awareness
The Learner, the Teacher and the Teaching/Learning Context
Planning for Effective Teaching
Classroom Management Skills
Teaching Procedures and Techniques
Resources and Materials
Professional Development
Classroom Observation
Teaching Practice

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.

Further information about CELTA

See the Cambridge English Language Teaching CELTA site.

Teaching Practice

Teaching practice is an integral part of the CELTA course. It is organised in small groups of 5-6 trainees with volunteer students at two or three different levels.

After each teaching practice session an evaluation of the session is led by a course tutor.

Trainees are expected to liaise within their groups outside course hours in order to plan teaching practice classes, according to guidelines provided by course tutors.