Cambridge Certificate in English Teaching to Adults (CELTA)

Courses and Prices

Click here to fill in the application form. Once you have completed it you will be contacted regarding the Language Awareness Test and interview.

If you are accepted onto the course you will be required to pay a deposit of £110 in order to receive a letter of acceptance. The balance payable must be received by the school within 10 working days of the date on the letter of acceptance. Successful applicants failing to respond within this period will forfeit their deposit. 

NOTE: The Stanton Teacher Training Courses are normally fully subscribed at least two weeks before commencement. Please ensure your application reaches us well in advance. 

If you are accepted onto the course you will be required to pay a deposit of £110 in order to receive a letter of acceptance. The balance payable must be received by the school within 10 working days of the date on the letter of acceptance. Successful applicants failing to respond within this period will forfeit their deposit.

NOTE: The Stanton Teacher Training Courses are normally fully subscribed at least two weeks before commencement. Please ensure your application reaches us well in advance.

Introduction

The CELTA Teacher Training Course is an intensive four-week programme for those wishing to prepare for a career in English Language Teaching to adults. It covers the theory, materials, and practical techniques of teaching at levels ranging from beginners to late intermediate, and aims to provide a basis from which teachers can expand as they subsequently gain in experience.

The course leads to the award of the Cambridge CELTA, formerly known as the RSA/Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (CTEFLA).

General Information

Stanton Teacher Training is a non-profit organisation which works in association with Stanton School of English. Founded in 1973, Stanton School of English is accredited by the British Council and is a member of English UK (formerly known as ARELS).

Course Participants

To be accepted for the course, applicants must demonstrate that they have an awareness of language and a competence in English, both written and spoken, that will enable them to follow the course and complete the assignments. Participants would normally be university graduates or teachers qualified in another subject, with little or no experience of ELT.

The course is also suitable for teachers with some experience of ELT but having had no formal training. Applicants who have teaching experience but no degree or formal teaching qualification may also be eligible, at the discretion of the Training Course Director. 

Acceptance on the course is not automatic, and all applicants will have to complete a pre-acceptance Language Awareness Test and interview either at the Centre's premises in London or by a combination of fax and telephone in the case of applicants resident overseas. 

Course Content

Following the syllabus laid down by the Royal Society of Arts and the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, the course aims to develop:

Practical awareness of:

Learners' cultural and individual needs, approaches to learning difficulties, motivation of adult learners.

Language:

Linguistic form, function and meaning appreciation of structure and function principles of selection and grading effects of subject matter and content importance of phonology.

Materials:

Coursebooks and supplementary materials and their teachers books.

Special interest texts:

Authentic/non-authentic materials, commercially produced and teacher-made materials, reference works for teachers/learners.

Practical ability in:

Classroom Management and Lesson Planning, arranging the physical environment appropriately, planning individual lessons and series of lessons.

Presentation and practice of new Language:

Selecting language items appropriate to student's needs/levels division of the items into:

Learnable units, presentation skills, controlled practice, free practice, checking learning, checking understanding.

Developing students' skills: 

Reading, listening, speaking, writing, integrating these four skills, selecting appropriate materials, having the ability to use a wide range of techniques to this end.

Background Reading

It is advisable to do some background reading before the Language Awareness Test. The following books are recommended for this purpose:

• If your language awareness at present is weak - How English Works (Michael Swan & Catherine Walter), Longman .
• If your language awareness at present is reasonable - Grammar for English Language Teaching (Martin Parrott), OUP.
• And to get a better idea of the methodologies used in EFL teaching today - The Practice of English Language Teaching, Third Edition (Jeremy Harmer), Longman

Following acceptance on the course, participants will be given a list of preliminary reading and tasks. At the centre, coursebooks and other material can be borrowed from the Teacher Training Library.

Our Timetable

The course is an intensive full-time programme running for four weeks, 8 hours every weekday (including lunch-break). Course timetables may commence at 10am OR 12 noon depending on the availability and suitability of Teaching Practice groups at each possible timetable.

Participants will be fully occupied and should plan to commit themselves exclusively to the course for this period. It is quite likely that some days will run on longer than expected.

In the daily teaching practice sessions, trainees are split into microgroups of no more than six for teaching practice and observation (2 hours). Teaching practice feedback (1hour) and supervised lesson preparation (1 hour) is also in micro-groups.

Input sessions (3 hours) are followed by all trainees together in one group. In addition to this, there will be observation of classes being taught by the school's regular teachers (mornings or afternoons by arrangement 8 hours in all). Some days will begin earlier or end later for observations.

Assessment and Accreditation

Participants are closely observed and graded throughout the course according to their performance in both the practical and theoretical sessions. Additionally, a limited number of tasks and written assignments will be counted in the grading. Stanton Teacher Training will issue a graded certificate of attendance and performance within a month of the conclusion of the course, and successful participants will be awarded the Cambridge/RSA Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge CELTA) by the accrediting body, the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES). An assessor from UCLES will scrutinise each course's activities for at least one full day (sometimes two days), and you should be prepared to be observed by the assessor if required.

Accommodation

Please indicate on the application form if you will require the help of Stanton School of English in finding accommodation in London during the course. A letter of acceptance on the course will be sent to you.

Stanton Teacher Training Courses Limited

STANTON SCHOOL OF ENGLISH Stanton Teacher Training Courses Limited is a non-profit organisation which works in association with Stanton School of English. Founded in 1973, Stanton School of English is accredited by the British Council and is a member of English UK (formerly known as ARELS).

Teacher training courses take place in the centre in Queensway, in West Central London. With more than 800 students from all over the world continuously enrolled, the school offers a variety of social and cultural activities. These are open to teacher trainees, giving them the opportunity of meeting qualified, experienced ELT teachers and students from diverse linguistic backgrounds.

Course participants are also encouraged to make use of the Teacher Training Library, videos, Listening Centre, and all other resources of the school. Teacher trainees have their own 'mini-staffroom' with their own photocopier, computers, cassette-recorders and library of books, cassettes, CDs and other teaching aids. Internet access and use is free.

Instructions and Conditions

1. Complete the Application Form and send it to The Director, Stanton Teacher Training Courses Ltd., Stanton House, 167 Queensway, London W2 4SB, with your deposit of £110.
2. On receiving your completed Application Form the Centre will arrange a Language Awareness Test and interview at the conclusion of which the interviewer will tell you whether or not you can be offered a place on the course. Unsuccessful applicants will receive a full refund of their deposit at the same moment.
3. Full payment of the balance must reach the Centre within 10 working days of the date on the letter of acceptance. If you require accommodation in London , the completed Application Form for Accommodation should be enclosed with your course fee balance payment, and accompanied either by full payment or a deposit (£110 minimum).
4. When you accept the offer of a place you will be given a list of pre-course reading and tasks. Those requiring accommodation will be informed of their London address within 24 hours of payment of their accommodation deposit. any outstanding balance of accommodation fees is payable on your arrival at the Centre.
5. Course participants who fail to arrive or to complete the course cannot be refunded under any circumstances. Applicants failing to respond within 10 working days of the date on their letter of acceptance onto the course will forfeit their £110 deposit.
6. Refunds of accommodation payments are possible under exceptional circumstances, as detailed in theSupplementary School Rules and Regulations available from the reception office. Accommodation minimum deposits (£120) are not refundable.

Note: Course fees include all tuition, UCLES registration, use of Teacher Training Library, video, Listening Centre, photocopy facilities (for course-related material), e-mail and Internet access, cassette recorders, wordprocessing facilities, and membership of the Stanton School of English Students' Club.