Riviera Maya, Mexico
What is the CELTA?
The CELTA is a TEFL qualification which prepares you to teach English as a foreign language. You don’t need any existing English language teaching experience or training. It’s usually a 4 or 5 week full time course (but you can also take it part time).
Standing up in front of a class for the first time is a daunting prospect, so you need to make sure you have the skills you need to teach effectively. The CELTA prepares you for the classroom in these ways:
- Taught sessions on methodology, lesson planning, language analysis and language skills. (In total, you’ll have 120 hours of input.)
- The opportunity to observe experienced teachers in a real-life language classroom situations – so you can see the different skills and techniques they use.
- Teaching yourself – with helpful and detailed feedback from your tutors. This practical experience is invaluable when you start your first job.
You’ll have to complete some written assignments as well, but when it’s all successfully completed you’ll be ready for your first job and first students!
Read more about the CELTA here
What is the CELTA Online?
In response to unprecedented conditions with coronavirus, it’s now possible to take a 100% CELTA online with our sister school IH Mexico City.
The Cambridge CELTA Course Online (or CELTA Online) is a flexible way to take CELTA. It leads to the same CELTA qualification and is assessed and moderated according to the same criteria.
Like the face-to-face CELTA course, CELTA Online has a significant practical component. You will complete 6 hours of assessed teaching practice in groups in an online classroom, from the comfort of your home!
Find more details at IH Mexico City
Face to Face CELTA at IH Riviera Maya
At IH Riviera Maya, we offer an excellent CELTA programme, a great course experience, and a certificate recognised all over the world. Among some of our key course features we offer our candidates:
- Experienced tutors and staff – we have two CELTA assessors on staff, one of whom is also a Delta tutor and assessor.
- Passing rate – we have not had a single Fail candidate in the last 8 years! And we are consistently improving our course to facilitate the learning and training process and experience.
- Excellent timetable and course experience – our input sessions and workshops on the course are specifically targeted at the assignments candidates will have to do on the course, thus allowing them to work on Teaching Practice, lesson plans, and even written assignments during input time and thus maximise their work.
- The CELTA online learning option includes face-to-face teaching as well as online CELTA training. The online CELTA element of the course is assessed and moderated according to the same criteria as the full face-to-face course, and the course leads to full CELTA qualification.
- If taking CELTA online, TP will start in the fourth stage on the course so that you have received enough input online and thus you are in a much better position to plan classes. TP will take place at IH Riviera Maya face-to-face. This is followed by TP feedback and supervised lesson planning. In addition, there is an orientation morning at the school on day one of the face-to-face components prior to the start of TP.
- An excellent accommodation option at the school residence or private apartments.
- Experienced teachers have also taken the course and used their CELTA qualification for professional development and to expand their repertoire to teaching ESL students within their schools as well as to travel and work abroad.
Classrooms are spacious for candidates to enjoy the input sessions and have good teaching practice. There are computers, wi-fi connection, stationery stuff and photocopiers available for students to use as requested. There is no charge for photocopying, CELTA candidate gets their own ‘gift bag’ at the start of the course with their own stationery. We also have an electronic library of resources to study from the comfort of their homes and a special room only for candidates to work on their materials, assignments, and lesson plans, even at the weekend if they wish.
What will fellow students be like?
We have a mix of candidates from different parts of the world. Our candidates mostly come, however, from the US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and other parts of Latin America. Most candidates are between 20 and 50 years old, from different paths and walks of life, either starting in the profession, or developing their practice.
Some of our candidates have comeback and taken Delta with us, and have then moved on to managerial, senior teaching positions, or become part of our teacher training department as CELTA and Delta trainers. Some of our candidates have also then moved on to complete MAs in the USA or the UK.
