Category Archives: TEFL qualifications

Is a good teacher worth good money? Part Two

Posted on 10/11/2007 by alexcase

I seem to be preaching to the converted here (unless the people who disagree with me are so infuriated that their fingers have tensed up and they temporarily can’t use a keyboard), but I’d already started writing part two before … Continue reading →

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Do you need teacher training and qualifications before your first TEFL job?

Posted on 06/11/2007 by alexcase

I was a trainer on 4 week certificate in teaching English to adults courses (similar to the Cambridge CELTA) where some of the trainees already had teaching experience before they came on the course, mostly because they had decided it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge ESOL, CELTA, MA TESOL, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Turkey, TEFL, TEFL certificate, TEFL qualifications | 2 Comments

CELTA Interview Fees

Posted on 12/10/2007 by alexcase

Despite a few encouraging remarks on the Rave’s Cafe Teacher Training forum and from Sandy below, I am still quite suprised that no one else is as outraged as me about Cambridge allowing non-refundable “application fees” etc to be taken … Continue reading →

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What is a lesson plan? (metaphors for teaching)

Posted on 11/10/2007 by alexcase

A great question in the comments box of the TEFLtastic Link Up post below from Sandy of TEFLtrade fame, almost Japanese T Shirt-like in the zen stages of enlightenment it can lead you to- first it seems silly and you laugh, … Continue reading →

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TEFL Insider Part Six- Nova and the CELTA

Posted on 07/10/2007 by alexcase

To prove that I am capable of not only the idle speculation of the average post on this blog (but then, isn’t that what a blog is for?) but also of getting down and dirty in the trenches of TEFL, … Continue reading →

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MA= My A*se! Super CELTA is it, man!

Posted on 27/08/2007 by alexcase

Hope that headline got your attention, but actually I have nothing to say about the MA today at all… Right, now to talk about the CELTA. I have decided to trust a whole lot of people I have never met … Continue reading →

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Online TEFL certificates

Posted on 24/08/2007 by alexcase

Just could not think of an interesting title to this post, and as the limitations of this method of teacher training is obvious to most people not financially tied up in the teacher training busines, neither do I think I have … Continue reading →

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PPP RIP? Part Two

Posted on 23/08/2007 by alexcase

Carrying on looking at whether teachers should still teach PPP and therefore whether teacher training courses like the CELTA should still cover it, lets look at some criticisms people could level and/ or have levelled at this approach: There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, CELTA, Lesson planning, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, PPP (Presentation practice production), TBA (Task Based Approach), Teacher training, TEFL, TEFL certificate, TEFL qualifications, Test teach test | 25 Comments

Academic feud au lait

Posted on 23/08/2007 by alexcase

So, my last thread (of five?) on the Rave’s ESL Au Lait Japan forum has been locked and that is that. There was lots of raging passion, some (but much less) civilised debate, a lot of chest beating and territorial pissing, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dave Sperling's ESL Cafe, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, MA TESOL, Teacher training, Teaching in Japanese universities, TEFL, TEFL qualifications, TESOL | 1 Comment

TEFL Insider Part Four

Posted on 23/08/2007 by alexcase

Following up my breaking news story on the school in the British Midlands that takes a 50 pound “interview fee” just for the pleasure of seeing what a real whiteboard looks like before you are accepted or rejected as a … Continue reading →

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