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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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I took Teaching House’s CELTA course during the month of June 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. Although the downtown site was not a permanent Teaching House location, a printer/copier, a projector and a laptop were available, and we were able to access the building wi-fi with our personal laptops or other devices. Teaching House also provided a small library of the essential texts needed throughout the course, and we were each provided with a binder containing much of the curriculum and all of the worksheets needed for the course. Any curriculum not included in this binder was presented in the form of lectures, handouts, demonstration lessons and videos. We used a single very large room for both our own ELT training and our afternoon practice teaching sessions, and we were generally onsite from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. We had a lunch break of about 45 minutes during which we either went to a nearby restaurant or ate our own bag lunches. These were usually working lunches for most of us.
Our small group of 6 candidates were encouraged and guided to bond as a professional unit, to support each other, to exchange ideas, etc. I continue to be in contact with most of them, with our 2 highly skilled and supportive trainers, and with several of the students who made our practice teaching possible.
The most challenging aspect of the month-long course was completing the work in the time we had. I got much less sleep during the month than I usually do, even, somewhat, on weekends. This affected all of us, even the trainers, to a greater or lesser degree. For myself, I can see that I was having trouble prioritizing what I had to include in detail in lessons and what I could minimize.
Even though I came to the course with over 30 years of ELT experience, this was all a fantastic learning experience for me. I was able to use what I already knew, seeing how it fit into the CELTA context, and add technique that I had never been trained in. At times, I was able to complement the official training (as were my less experienced co-trainees), and at other times I was able to benefit greatly from observing the efforts and progress of others.
I have not yet applied for a new job with this new qualification, but I do believe that it will open doors to jobs that I would not otherwise be interviewed for. It should be well-worth the cost and the loss of sleep!