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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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Courses

Course Types

Combined TEFL Courses
On-site TEFL Courses
Online TEFL Courses

Course Lengths

Standard (120-140 hours)
Long Courses (150+ hours)

Certifications

Cambridge CELTA
Cambridge DELTA
TEFL / TESL / TESOL

Additional Features

Online Practicum
Part-Time Study

Locations

Canada

Toronto ON

England

London
Oxford

USA

Boston MA
Miami FL
New York NY

Teaching House has received 277 student reviews and has an overall rating of 4.58 out of 5 stars based on the following criteria.

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Review 270 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Jolie Hanlon on August 21, 2025 9:09 am
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Truly a wonderful experience. It’s a lot of work but I learned so much and the practice with students was really great.

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Written by Piper Rooney on August 18, 2025 6:16 pm
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My part-time Online CELTA course was a fantastic experience. It was challenging and deeply rewarding. The course is well-structured, the tutors are experts in the field of ELT and CELTA lesson design and delivery, and the students (sister students and the real students who attend Teaching Practices) are truly wonderful.

I didn’t expect the curriculum to be so intense, nor did I realize that trainee teachers would start teaching from the second week! But the combination of rigor, structure, excellent instruction, and practical application of new knowledge made CELTA a thrill. I watched myself and my peers grow exponentially with each week’s demands.

If you’re eager to learn how to teach English to adult learners, and you enjoy highly stimulating and intense learning environments, I encourage you to consider a Teaching House CELTA course!

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Written by Ken Smither on May 7, 2025 1:51 pm
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I came with 0% interactive teaching experience. I only had lecture experience as a career job. This was a whole new world. I appreciate everything Abeer and Judy (instructor) did to help us along and provide us with the tools to teach. I came into the course with a “will not fail” attitude.

A word of warning…this course has a lot of work. Many, many weekends and week nights working on lesson plans and language analysis work. This is not for those who can give 10 hrs a week to this. It’s very, very hard and should be for a level 5 certification. Worth it in the end.

Good luck and enjoy the ride.

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Written by Le Vy Vu on May 7, 2025 11:17 am
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I’ve made the wisest decision since I chose to take CELTA in TH! I hope this centre will gain more popularity in the near future.

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Written by Rebekah Loos on May 7, 2025 10:01 am
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Teaching House is an amazing organization and I am grateful I completed by CELTA certificate through them. I would recommend using Teaching House to anyone interested in ESL. The tutors were excellent and the teaching practice was very practical!

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Written by Daniel Haataja on March 7, 2025 12:39 am
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Fantastic course! I learned an extraordinary amount in four weeks. The course is extremely well-structured, and they get you teaching right from the very first day. No time is wasted, and everything is carefully constructed and sequenced to transform you into a competent teacher of English by the end of the course–a remarkable accomplishment over such a relatively short period of time.

The input sessions in the morning not only give you information about how to teach, but also explain the “why” behind the methodology. In the afternoon you get to teach real students and observe other trainees teach, which is invaluable. After teaching, you immediately get honest and constructive feedback from your tutor and fellow trainees, and then everyone starts working on their lesson plans for the next day. At the beginning of the course the tutors are very hands-on during the lesson planning sessions, but by the end of the course (and this is of course the goal) you’re able to craft your lesson plans with only minimal help from your tutor.

Both tutors I had were superb. They were very knowledgeable, helpful, and encouraging, and they provided us with extremely detailed and timely feedback designed to help us improve from each teaching session to the next. There is a big focus on creating detailed, student-centered, and accurately timed lesson plans, and the tutors really help you hone this skill so that students learn as much as possible during each 45-minute lesson. I am a complete believer in the methodology Teaching House uses!

The course is very intensive, but in a good way–I loved every minute of it and can’t recommend it highly enough. It exceeded my expectations in every way.

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Written by Phil H. on January 14, 2025 9:07 pm
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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.

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Written by Ryan Heppy on December 22, 2024 3:41 pm
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Great course! I feel like I learned a lot having absolutely 0 experience as a teacher going in. I feel confident in using what I learned in my career as a teacher and would definitely come back to take more advanced courses!

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Written by SOPHIA FIGUEIRO on September 18, 2024 2:48 pm
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I took the CELTA course and my experience was wonderful from beginning to end. Everything before it started was easy to do because the staff are super helpful and kind. I learned a lot and super fast because the tutors are amazing, they give specific advice for everything, so I could deliver better lessons every time. By the end of if I was confident at delivering all type of lessons.

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Written by Jonathan Rhim on June 17, 2024 2:43 pm
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I had heard that the CELTA course given by Teaching House gave excellent training and was intense. I found both to be true. The input sessions (lectures) were very informative and practical–they were directly applicable to what you needed to do to prepare and and to deliver your teaching practice lessons, which for me were the most valuable part of the course. Preparing and delivering these lessons took a lot of time and effort and for me it was the main reason the course was intense and time-consuming. But the teaching practice was also the most valuable part of the course in getting me to learn the material and improve my teaching skills. I learned so much from the feedback I received on my teaching both from the tutor and my colleagues. I found my colleagues to be very supportive and fun to work with–definitely another major plus of the course. All of the tutors were very supportive–they want you to succeed in the course. They were very good at guiding you and very responsive to questions emailed outside of class hours. One thing that could have made the course less intense would have been to spread the course content over 5 weeks instead of 4. But overall I am very happy that I took the course, despite the intensity and how much work it ended up being.

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