We caught up with one of our CELTA trainees today who has shared his experience studying with LTTC. Here’s what he has to say: “The CELTA course is a real challenge but you can’t deny that it trains teachers how to teach. I personally have years of previous teaching experience in ESL but I still…
One of the best things about the CELTA course is that trainees get the opportunity to observe more experienced teachers in action. This morning LTTC’s trainees split up amongst the classes at Lexis English Sunshine Coast to observe the teachers and classes. The trainees saw lessons from Elementary to Upper Intermediate level and a couple…
Another beautiful sunrise from LTTC this morning! Up and at em CELTA trainees – no time to waste on your teacher training journey!
Sunrise from Lexis TESOL Training Centres’ headquarters. Day two starts in 3 hours, get ready for an awesome day of CELTA
Day 3 of CELTA was a busy day for LTTC’s latest cohort. Their first session of the morning was ‘presenting language’ where the trainees were involved in a number of language presentation styles including: Situational Presentation Guided Discovery Text-based Presentation Test-Teach-Test The candidates all worked hard and got involved in the tasks, making the session…
Lexis TESOL Training Centres’ CELTA trainees got down to some peer teaching of past tenses this weekend at our Sunshine Coast campus. Trainees were given various past structures to analyse and then present to their colleagues. They even got to take advantage of the lovely sunny weather and prepare out on the balcony! The…
As a teacher, there are a couple of things we should never say or do to our students. For example, pointing at them and laughing at their mistakes is often frowned upon and will most likely result in an upset student, poor classroom atmosphere, and a newly unemployed teacher. But this, in my opinion, isn’t…