Train The Trainer Course

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Become a teacher trainer and pass on your expertise

Are you an experienced teacher of English?
Have you already followed at least a CELTA
Have you obtained a Delta or done some post graduate work?
Do you have excellent classroom teaching skills?
Is your level of English at a sufficiently high level?

Every teacher has the potential to train other teachers – but training teaching requires specialist knowledge and skills

The Train the Trainer is a course for experienced teachers.

Participants develop the knowledge and skills they need to train English language teachers working in primary and secondary schools. They learn how to run training sessions, observe teaching and give feedback.

With Train the Trainer, teachers show that they:

Have developed skills for designing and delivering teacher training sessions and courses
have deepened their understanding of key issues in planning and delivering training courses
have developed an understanding of good practice in observing and giving feedback to course participants
have identified strategies for their further development as a trainer.

Are you eligible to attend?

For experienced teachers who have at least a CELTA Certificate, or, ideally a Cambridge DELTA Diploma or equivalent qualifications and some years of follow-up teaching experience as well as evidence of commitment to professional development.

Ideally, candidates should have

at least 5 years of teaching experience (post teacher training)
a graduate degree in English, Linguistics or related field
a Cambridge DELTA or equivalent level 7 qualification
a level of English high enough to be able to train teachers and be a fluent and accurate language model
strong interpersonal skills
experience in teaching and managing groups of adult learners

Course offerings

The course is offered intensively, over 5 or 6 days, or part-time, over 5 or more weeks. Some of our courses are held in Athens and some online in a live/interactive classroom where input is delivered synchronously and all participants have video and audio available to them.
During the course, we will offer our trainee trainers the opportunity to deliver some live sessions. The course requires the design of training material but we also include practice training sessions.

Important Notes

CELT is happy to organise extra courses, especially in the winter term, for groups of teachers from the same institution or teaching association.

Tuition

Tuition is 500 euros. To run a course we need a minimum of 10 trainees.
Please read the application form for details. We accept payments via PayPal, Bank Transfer or Western Union.

How to Apply

You can download and return the attached application by clicking here

Course Leader: Marisa Constantinides

Marisa Constantinides is a highly experienced and qualified tutor on all courses at CELT, working on CELTA and Delta programmes and with experience of having trained and helped in the development of many teacher trainers working as staff members at CELT Athens and supporting their approval to work as CELTA and Delta trainers. You can find our much more about their formal qualifications, experience and publications here.

FAQs

Is there an exam at the end?
No final exam is given. The course assessment is on a continuous basis and is handled through practical hands-on tasks during the course.
Who awards the Certification?
The Certification is awarded by CELT International as Cambridge stopped offering it
Does this course qualify participant to become a CELTA tutor?
This course does not qualify its participants to become CELTA trainers for which there is a lengthier and more complex induction programme. However, this course can be one of the first steps towards this goal.
Is it possible to join the course if you don’t have a CELTA or DELTA?
It is possible, but only if you have a solid theoretical background in teaching methodology through your BA and/or MA studies which must be relevant and have followed an equivalent practical teaching course of a minimum of 120 hours which involved being observed by tutors and a lot of peer observing of tutors and fellow trainees.

If you do not have any of these qualifications, why not start a proper career path by applying to do one of these courses?