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Description

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: the 10-week part-time course which is designed for people who work full-time during the day (the course is run on two evenings a week and on Saturdays); and now 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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Courses

Course Types

Combined TEFL Courses
On-site TEFL Courses
Online TEFL Courses

Course Lengths

Short Courses (40-100 hours)
Standard (120-140 hours)
Long Courses (150+ hours)

Certifications

Cambridge CELTA
Cambridge DELTA
TEFL / TESL / TESOL

Additional Features

Online Practicum
Part-Time Study

Specialist Courses

Advanced Methodology

Locations

Australia

Melbourne

Canada

Toronto

England

London
Oxford
Stratford-upon-Avon

USA

Atlanta GA
Boston MA
Chicago IL
Los Angeles CA
Miami FL
New York NY
Portland OR
Washington DC

Teaching House has received 216 student reviews and has an overall rating of 4.55 out of 5 stars based on the following criteria.

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216 reviews of Teaching House

Review 216 of 216 Teaching House

Written by Ji Zhang on May 21, 2021 9:57 am
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The intensive online program is intense. That said, the resources provided made everything come together seamlessly. It is great experience to teach two levels of students and be able to contribute to peer observation. I wish it were a 2 month program so that I can keep learning new things.

Review 215 of 216 Teaching House

Written by K.L. on May 21, 2021 4:02 am
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This review is prefaced on two things:

1. The course was online

2. Tutors spoke extensively about classroom teaching experience, but not specifically online teaching experience, so I don’t know the extent of online training amongst tutors.

Overall, I learned a lot in the CELTA course from Teaching House. I’m glad I did it.

Pros:

1. Tutors have extensive experience.

2. Online format makes program accessible to more people.

3. Offers practice teaching multiple levels of students.

4. Offers instruction from multiple tutors, translating to exposure to a variety of experiences and approaches.

Cons:

1. Part time course only: I was told during my interview I would have a maximum of 5-6 hours of work to do outside class during the course per WEEK. I’m not a perfectionist, and I easily spent 2+ hours per DAY outside class. It was enough to pass, but not something I would recommend to people who work full time and have young children, like me. I can only imagine the demands of the full time course, if this was my experience with part time.

2. Students are held to strict rubrics for adjudication, but tutors are not. The positive is you get the input of more than one tutor. The negative is they may have drastically different demands and approaches, despite the same rubric. I found it stressful to figure out the essential material given different approaches/style.

3. Depending on your tutor, the course feels self-taught from online material. Yes, my questions were always answered when I posed them, but I was surprised how much was left wholly to the individual, considering novice teachers (which I am not) could enroll.

4. Course books out of date, sometimes irrelevant to students depending upon topic.

5. Online material organization chaotic and difficult to manage.

Do I regret having taken the course? No, not at all. I would do it again.

Will I take another separate course specifically in online instruction? Absolutely yes. This course only scratched the surface of what there is to learn.

Review 214 of 216 Teaching House

Written by Rui Guo on March 25, 2021 10:08 am
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One of the best on-line courses I have ever taken. All the tutors are professional and helpful. They always provide you good course content and prepare you very well for the teaching practice in guided planning. I would definitely come back and take DELTA with them, cheers!

Review 213 of 216 Teaching House

Written by Leah Kaufman on March 15, 2021 11:55 am
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Great quality instruction and practice. The layout of the course was good. My only struggle was with a complicated system for retrieving resources. (The resources provided were excellent thought.)

Review 212 of 216 Teaching House

Written by Tae Jun Pak on March 10, 2021 4:33 pm
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A really great experience. Great instructors. Cannot recommend this place enough.

Review 211 of 216 Teaching House

Written by Weam Elsheikh on March 10, 2021 10:34 am
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I really loved the way the course was formatted, especially having all students teach two levels of students. That was one of the biggest learning factors for me because it forced me to look at teaching materials from a different lens and really think about prioritizing the students first and how they would perceive information. I look forward to continue to learn and practice all of the strategies and teaching frameworks i have learned during CELTA!

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