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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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Overall, Teaching House’s CELTA course is excellent. I work full-time (unrelated to ELT), so I took the 11-week part-time mixed-mode course, which required 3 evenings of participation per week (sessions started at 5:30pm and would go until about 9pm). Besides those three evenings, a lot of time was required on my own for lesson preparation, written assignments, online Moodle Units (which introduced very helpful teaching concepts). Our two Tutors were absolutely fantastic guides! One started us off with a great foundation for the first couple of weeks (all Zoom), then the other the next four (Zoom then in-person), and then the first Tutor saw us through the last weeks (all in-person). Though they were unified in their commitment to preparing us according to CELTA’s standards, their individual experiences led to slightly different approaches, which was great for us since we got to see (and then incorporate) various tried-and-true methods of achieving the same teaching goals. Teaching House’s staff is friendly, and they obviously know what they’re doing in terms of getting the word out to volunteer learners, both online and in-person, because we were never without learners. My advice to potential trainees: If you’re doing the mixed-mode version, please make sure you take advantage of TH’s tutorial videos on how to teach via Zoom (especially on managing Breakout Rooms). Learning how to teach with Zoom is a huge plus because the reality is that teachers and students won’t always be able to physically meet and many jobs are for online teaching, only – and this is not a graded skill, so having the opportunity to learn it is purely a benefit. Also, although the course is well organized, success will still depend highly on your ability to manage very limited time, especially if you work full-time. So, *before* the course starts (maybe about a month or more before), I highly suggest reading the two recommended textbooks, and starting the Moodle Units (as soon as the Tutors give you access). When the course starts, it really takes off; so, the more you’re familiar with terminology and concepts before it starts, the less scrambling you’ll have to do and the better you’ll be able to absorb the mountains of material given to you at each session. Last but definitely not least, we fellow trainees supported each other emotionally and logistically, and I believe that made a big difference. Well done, Teaching House, for providing a well-structured program.