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Cambridge Assessment English approved the opening of Teaching House in 2007. With the aim to expand quality English-language teacher training in the United States, Teaching House has opened over 15 center locations and trained over 3,000 new teachers. Teaching House is now the largest provider of Cambridge CELTA courses in the world.
Ensuring the high standards of education that are set by Cambridge English, all Teaching House CELTA courses have a maximum of only 6 trainees working with each trainer. To fulfill this trainer/trainee ratio, the Teaching House staff include over 20 Cambridge English-approved teacher trainers as well as a strong support team based at our headquarters in New York.
In addition to the standard four-week CELTA course format, Teaching House has developed two new formats:
- a 10-week part-time course run on two evenings a week and on Saturdays;
- a part-time blended course over 14 weeks allowing people to work online during the week and do teaching practice on Saturdays.
We also offer in the USA a two week compressed teaching practice option with online content, for those who are only able to take two weeks for their teaching practice component.
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Make sure you have a deep background in English Grammar prior to starting the course. If you don’t, you will be lost in all the grammar terminology. The course itself is far too time and energy consuming to orient yourself with the mechanics of grammar while in the middle of it and you will constantly be playing catch-up. This can be quite draining.
TH (at least the one where I took the course in New York) does not emphasize the importance of this before the course starts They say they don’t because the course is designed for those who have no prior English teaching experience but believe me, it’s not.
Some material will be sent to you prior to the start of the course. Put everything else in your life aside and do it, especially the Grammar for Teachers – they will only suggest, not tell you specifically that it’s in your best interest to do it if you have no previous English teaching experience. Their position on that is that they can’t tell anyone to do it because it’s not assessed for the CELTA certificate requirements but it helps a great deal if you know it beforehand. As I said, there is no time to orient yourself with it all once the course starts and the instructors won’t go over it. You’re expected to know it going in so they can teach you how to teach it to students, NOT to be taught it yourself.
The course is intense and knowing your stuff before starting it could mean the difference between a “Pass” and a “Pass A” or “B”, and for a price tag of over $2500, you’ll want all the help you can get.
When I brought this up to my instructors, the responses I got ranged from an obligatory “right, I’ll bring that up in the staff meeting” to one of them actually blaming me for what I honestly perceived to be shortcomings of the program. Needless to say, I didn’t appreciate that for being asked for my feedback.
Also, their job seeking counseling session is a bit going-through-the-motions. Nothing a Google or LinkedIn search wouldn’t provide. Naturally, the bulk of finding any job is on you.