CELTA: What? Why? How?

Matthew McGeever
Assistant Director of Studies & CELTA Trainer
International House Bratislava

ados@ihbratislava.sk
17 February 2024

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 CELTA: What?
• “The most widely recognised English teaching
qualification in the world” (www.cambridgeenglish.org)
• Initial qualification
• Teaching techniques-methodologies AND
practical experience
• Observation of experienced teachers
• Apply learning through delivering
communicative lessons

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 CELTA: Who for?
- New teachers
- Teachers with some experience who want to develop
their skills
- First-language and non-first-language language
speakers

Entry Requirements:
- Aged 18+
- Educated to a standard required for entry into higher
education
- Proficient user of English language (CEFR C1+)

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 CELTA Course structure
120 hours contact between candidates and tutors
• Supervised lesson planning
• 6 hours assessed teaching practice (at a
minimum of 2 levels)
• Feedback on teaching practice
• Peer observations of teaching practice
• 6 hours observation of experienced teachers
• Guidance with the 4 written assignments

Maximum ratio of one tutor for every six candidates.

Minimum two tutors on each course.

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 CELTA formats (IHBA)
FORMAT TEACHING PRACTICE TRAINING
Online - Online lessons (Zoom) - Live online input
Part-time - Live, with groups of sessions
(Apr-Jun ‘24) learners - Online trainer support
- Observed by a trainer

Face-to-face - F2F in a classroom - F2F input sessions

Full-time - Live, with groups of with a trainer
(July 2024) learners - F2F (or online) trainer
- Observed by a trainer support

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 CELTA: Why?
• the course is special in terms of p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
teaching experience and developing s_ _ _ _ _ _
-c_ _ _ _ _ _ teaching techniques

• Access to experienced t_ _ _ _ _ _ _ and teacher

t_ _ _ _ _ _ _ who give individual f_ _ _ _ _ _ _

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 CELTA: Why?
• The course is special in terms of practical
teaching experience and developing student-
centred teaching techniques.
• Access to experienced teachers and teacher
trainers who give individual feedback.
• PRACTICAL - Input
- Feedback
- Guided Lesson Planning

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 CELTA: How to apply?
• International House Bratislava is the largest authorised
centre in Slovakia to provide this course

• Online application form

• Pre-interview task (meet expectations related to language
awareness)
• Interview

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CELTA: When?

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 Useful Links
• https://www.ihbratislava.sk/en/for-
teachers/celta-bratislava-slovakia

• https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/teaching-
english/teaching-qualifications/celta/about-the-
celta-course/

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