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CELT-S

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  • CELT-S
    • About the course
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    • Running a course

Are you an education institution, national or regional government?

Send an enquiry to get access to a course sample.

Language for Teaching courses are available to institutions and governments with a minimum order of 100 courses, or through our existing English language consultancy services packages.

Read more about our consultancy services

Are you a teacher?

CELT-S is offered to groups of teachers through employers and teaching organisations.

Talk to your employer if you’re interested in taking this qualification, or consider taking one of our other teaching qualifications.

The CELT-S course helps your teachers to:

  • improve their classroom teaching
  • successfully deliver lessons according to the curriculum
  • apply their learning to classroom situations.
  • users
    Blended learning
  • book
    Modules
  • compose
    Assessment

CELT-S is a 120-hour course, which combines online study and teaching practice. You can see descriptions of each course component below.

There are 24 hours of optional additional material for teachers to extend and practise what they have learned during the online course, which is delivered face–to–face in the classroom.

Course component Content
English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology
Eight online modules
  • Key concepts and principles
  • A range of activities that engage participants with course content
  • Regular progress tests to check learning.
Optional face-to-face seminar for each online module
  • Extension of the online materials
  • Practice activities and support: up to 24 hours of face-to-face study.
Teaching practice
A practical written task for each online module
  • A range of tasks in which participants apply their online learning in their classroom.
Teaching observations
  • Developmental feedback from trainers
  • Consolidation of online learning.

There are eight CELT-S modules. All eight modules focus on theory and practice and can be completed in any order.

Module Content
1 Classroom management in the secondary classroom
  • Creating and maintaining a constructive learning environment
  • Managing classroom activities effectively
  • Managing differences in the classroom.
2 Language learning and the teenage learner
  • Learning language in the secondary education sector
  • Learning needs, styles, motivations and preferences
  • Encouraging and supporting active and independent learning.
3 Teaching language skills
  • Teaching listening and reading
  • Teaching speaking
  • Teaching writing.
4 Language awareness for teaching
  • Grammar: word classes, grammar structures and how to use language for different functions
  • Vocabulary: key concepts, word formation and combining words
  • Pronunciation: key concepts, word and sentence stress, connected speech and intonation.
5 Teaching language in the secondary classroom
  • Key concepts, principles and techniques in teaching grammar, lexis and phonology.
6 Planning language learning in the secondary context
  • Planning a lesson
  • Writing lesson plans
  • Planning a programme of work.
7 Language learning resources and materials for the secondary classroom
  • Evaluating, selecting, using and adapting coursebook materials
  • Evaluating, selecting and using supplementary materials
  • Using teaching aids effectively, including technology.
8 Assessing language learning in the secondary context
  • Principles and purposes of classroom-based assessment
  • Classroom-based assessment tools
  • Formative and summative assessment.

Each module has a number of lessons, which all have the following structure:

  • an introduction to the topic
  • learning activities
  • activities that check learning
  • activities that focus on practical classroom applications
  • a review of what’s been learned
  • a short, multiple-choice progress test
  • further reading.

You will be assessed in the following ways:

Assessment component Assessment type
English Language Teaching methodology
  • Completion of the online modules and progress tests
  • A multiple-choice teaching knowledge test
    (TKT: Module 1).
Teaching practice
  • Completion of portfolio tasks
  • Assessment of teaching.

Participants who complete all the modules and assessments will receive the CELT-S qualification. The qualification is awarded at Pass or Pass with Merit.


CELT-S case study

The Turkish Education Association (TED) offered their teachers a CELT-S qualification to enhance and develop their classroom skills and improve their confidence. The blended learning course meant online modules could be completed at a time that was convenient to the teachers. By combining study with work, teachers could immediately use their new skills in the classroom.

Read the CELT-S teacher development case study

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