ICAL_Pete

“Given your current knowledge I would sugegst that you shouldn't do the course.

 

Many people who take the CELTA course talk of it as being the hardest 4 weeks of their academic life! In my opinion, the course is the top level teacher training course and is quite simply not for beginners.

I always recommend that before anyone can consider taking the course they should have at least 2 solid years experience behind them teaching English and a thorough grounding in English grammar and teaching methods.

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Nonsense.  I have no teaching experience whatsoever and I got a B pass (that's good).  I would put my grammatical knowledge as average - it was probably better than the other 5 on the course, but they all passed (and another student got a B).

Yes, it's very hard work.  I did it on 2 days a week over 13 weeks, and I would not have wanted to do the 4-week full-time option, even if my circumstances had allowed (I work 3 days a week so couldn't anyway).   However I thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you are prepared to do some work before the course to brush up on your grammar, there's no reason you shouldn't do the course.  The course gives you the grounding in the teaching methods that ICAL Pete refers to - how else are you supposed to get them?!  Just make sure you choose a good training provider that has small classes for the CELTA course, so you get good tutor support.

It's worth noting that ICAL is a purveyor of online TEFL courses that may be accepted as qualifications in some countries (primarily Asia I think) - they may even be the best of such courses for all I know - but such courses are not comparable with a CELTA course (most don't even include any actual teaching practice!), and you will be exluded from much of the job market if that's all you have.