This again is in reponse to an article on big Alex’s TEFL Tastic blog questioning the merits of doing the CELTA course. The respondents, of which I was the first, seem to agree that the author’s opinions need to be counterbalanced by looking at some of the benefits of doing such a course. In this …
Category Archive: Teacher training
Apr
06
Aviation English training set to ‘take off’
First of all, sorry, that pun is so lame I’m embarrassed to have put it in the title. Now, down to important business. Do you know your autonomous integrity monitor from your airborne data link processor? What do you mean ‘no’? Well, if your knowledge of aviation tertms isn’t up to scratch, China may not …
Mar
16
Online conference anyone?
The 7th Annual International Online Conference (IOC) for Teaching and Learning takes place March 30-31, 2009, completely online and features keynotes, presentations and workshop sessions by and for education professionals. IOC includes a variety of ways to connect with and learn from colleagues. Each day of the conference features several live online sessions during which …
Jan
29
If you Really must Go to that TEFL Conference…
Alex ‘TEFLTastic‘ Case is fast emerging as my favourite TEFL blogger. Where the man finds time to sleep is beyond me, such is his prolific rate, not only of writing new articles but also for producing materials and teaching ideas that he freely shares on his blog. He has just added a great list of …
Jan
09
Free Online TESOL Courses
Thanks to Martin (mmcmorrow for pointing this one out on the ELT World Forums). That’s right folks, ELT oligarchs TESOL are offering a fairly comprehensive range of free six-week online teacher training courses. You don’t even have to be a member of TESOL to participate, although lunch is not included, apparently. Seriously though, all those …
Oct
15
Win an Online TEFL Course
i-to-i is one of the biggest providers of TEFL courses and TEFL jobs abroad. In the past 12 months alone i-to-i has trained 15,000 people to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and assisted them in finding jobs across the globe and have also picked up a clutch of ‘prestigious’ awards and nominations. Throughout …