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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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277 reviews of Teaching House

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Review 277 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Elizabeth GUESDON on April 20, 2026 12:16 pm
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I highly recommend taking the CELTA course with Teaching House. Hard work and self-discipline are required to be successful, but the reward is well worth it. After finishing this course, I have confidence to lead high quality ESL classes, and I am more marketable with this respected certification.

PROS: the instructors are experienced teachers, supportive and there to help you succeed.

The methodology is up-to-date and they are passionate about the art and science of teaching. This is not a shady school making money by pushing out low quality graduates.

The class sizes (for the teacher trainees) are small so the sessions feel personalized.

There is a lot of 1:1 support from the instructors including dedicated times for help with lesson planning and constructive feedback following teaching practice.

You give lessons to groups of real students and not to your peers.

The CELTA certification will make your CV stand out above others in the ESL world.

CONS: The 4 week intensive course is every bit as intensive as people say. Be prepared to put your life on hold during that time including the weekends. I kept a strict schedule of waking at 5am to work on the assignments, attend the online class during the day, then continue studying and working on assignments until midnight.

If you are someone who likes a bit more time to think, the part-time or weekend courses may be better options.

Be prepared to sharpen your computer skills before the class starts. Practice being a presenter on Zoom and develop interactive slides/lessons to share with your students through this platform. Practice ahead of time because there will be little to no time to figure it out during the course. You are expected to be up an running the first week.

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Review 276 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Julie Esris on March 23, 2026 5:03 pm
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This was a really great class! Tutors were very helpful and kind and gave solid and honest feedback. The experience of practice teaching was fun and enlightening too.

However, I wish there was more in the way of job placement. Additionally, the list of resources they gave us for finding jobs has a substantial number of broken links.

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Review 275 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Cesar Rivera Soto on March 23, 2026 2:21 pm
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I entered this course having little to no knowledge, but through my tutors and the course materials, practices, and materials provided for studying and building courses were all exceptional, and I would definitely recommend this for anybody looking to pursue a career in teaching!

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Review 274 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Amaan Masalawala on March 20, 2026 2:40 pm
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Extremely rewarding and educational experience. Work load is tough but manageable with ample support from tutors and resources provided. You will learn methodology, practical frameworks and classroom management skills, and about the industry. You will be surprised how quickly you are able to embody “being a teacher” in just four weeks; the actual teaching practice supercharges your confidence. Intensive nature of the course is a great boon. And the tutors and other students were so friendly!

A little more support on creating a structured job search and application strategy is the one thing I would’ve appreciated more of.

Highly, highly recommend!

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Written by L Garber on March 12, 2026 5:10 pm
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I really enjoyed my experience taking the CELTA course with Teaching House. I grew so much as a teacher in just 4 weeks with the support and guidance of the tutors. It was an invaluable experience.

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Written by Garrett Sarchet on December 18, 2025 1:29 pm
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The CELTA course was excellent! One of the most beneficial parts was real teaching practice which helped build my confidence. My instructors Raga & Bita always went above and beyond to help all us in their class. I would recommend the CELTA for aspiring ESL teachers!

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Review 271 of 277 Teaching House

Written by Anon on October 1, 2025 2:58 pm
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Going in order of each ranking above and explaining my answers to hopefully give those looking at Teaching House (TH) and this program in the future an inside look. I was part of the 10-week, online, part-time course.

Overall rating: The CELTA course work itself is fine, having come into this program with TEFL certification from my college I was aware of a majority of the methods and that some of them are outdated. The most valuable part of this course is actually being able to teach students. Structures are expected to be followed rigidly but there is very little assistance on how to actually structure a lesson. I will stand by the opinion that we should not have been thrown in to teach during the first two weeks, we absolutely should have those sessions dedicated to the tutors showing us how to make a basic lesson. The beginning of this course was hell and it didn’t improve until my last 4 weeks.

Course Content: As mentioned above, the content overall is fine if a bit dry and outdated. You are given coursebooks and assigned pages to make lessons out of, some of the activities will require some creative thinking in order to make an interesting lesson. The low rating here mostly comes from the disorganization of the Sharepoint (which contained all relevant assignment, teaching materials, and lesson resources) which hadn’t been updated since 2020, and the Moodule (where you did lessons) not registering assignments fully. You’re given Moodule assignments to complete each week (though they are flexible) but they often don’t register as completed 100% due to tech errors. It was asked by my group if this was ok and we were told on multiple occasions that they just wanted to see if we “did” the lesson, actually completing it wasn’t looked for. So the homework is busywork you’re still expected to do despite no one checking it. Dates are often wholly wrong or mixed up from prior semesters, this often lead to both groups of teachers attempting to communicate with each other to find the correct date since it was like roulette if the tutors would answer your emails.

Practice Teaching: This was fine, generally students were easy to get along with and were excited to be present. The Upper-Intermediate level was a slight struggle only because there were often only 3-4 students when the minimum was stated to be 6, this is the only reason I’m taking off a point.

Quality of Feedback: This is a mixed bag. I was lucky that the other teachers I was with were very supportive and uplifting and my final tutor of the course was a gem. The beginning of the course was a different story, our initial tutor was confusing, contradictory, and overall terrible at motivating the teachers to do better. I don’t know if this tutor was planning to leave TH, but he really seemed like he didn’t want to be there. Additionally, he consistently had microphone issues that affected how we heard him and he refused to switch to the high quality mic he informed us he had on his final day. Going as far to blame one teacher’s keyboard for his microphone issues. He was impossible to reach outside of class, emails went unanswered entirely.

Lesson Plan Guidance: The two-star rating here should not be “fair” but rather “poor” with one-star being “terrible”. There is very little lesson plan guidance, you’re given about 15 minutes before class on designated days before the teachers teach. This was especially difficult for Monday’s and Tuesday’s teachers as they only had a day between teaching and planning enough to receive decent guidance on Wed/Thurs. Additionally, lesson frameworks (basic skeletons to help make planning easier depending on the type of lesson) weren’t introduced until almost 6 weeks into the course. These frameworks were very useful and it truly was a detriment to early lessons to not allow students access to these. I have no idea why they weren’t introduced sooner.

Instructor Competency: Overall, I only found one tutor helpful and that was Hulgo. He truly did his best to uplift students and teachers while they were struggling and learning. He had a very positive attitude and his criticisms all felt fair, especially since he offered guidance on how to fix them most of the time. I found everyone prior to paying for the course pleasant too, my interviewer was very nice and I enjoyed speaking with her. Everything aside from these, I would rather forget. If you struggle with a tutor that isn’t doing their job and is largely incompetent, the higher ups will simply tell you to suck it up or even laugh at concerns/comments when they call you over the phone. They do not care on that level at all.

I’m not applicable for the bottom two ratings, but overall I would call my time at Teaching House disappointing. Every week I ended up reminding myself how close I was to being done, I found very little of it actually enjoyable. If you are looking to take the CELTA course, please do not do it with Teaching House. Save yourself the headache.

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