The CELTA Course

The Cambridge CELTA Online Course at a glance

At Teaching House, we understand that for plenty of students attending in-person classes isn’t always accessible, which is why we offer the Cambridge CELTA Course Online (or CELTA Online). For students looking for flexible alternatives to TEFL certification, the CELTA online course offers the same exceptional level of world-class education. It also leads to the same CELTA qualification and is assessed and moderated according to the same criteria.

Like our face-to-face CELTA course, the CELTA Online course requires students to undertake 120+ hours of training. This includes assessments and 6 hours of teaching practice in groups in an online learning environment. You’ll have access to experienced English teaching staff, and the course can all be completed from the comfort of your own home.

A flexible & safe approach to learning

At Teaching House, we are committed to providing world-class flexible and safe learning alternatives to our face-to-face locations. We are constantly evolving and innovating our educational offering in order to provide flexible and safe arrangements for our students across the world.

As we continue to deal with the effects of COVID-19, we have strengthened our commitment to the health and safety of every member of our international community. We want to reassure you that we are vigilant and monitoring the situation as an international organisation. In response to overwhelming interest, we have introduced the CELTA course completely online in a distanced delivery format.

Choosing the CELTA certificate online course

When deciding to enrol in the CELTA online course, you’ll receive a whole host of benefits that come along with choosing this type of learning format. Previous graduates of the CELTA course have enjoyed:

Accessible learning from your home, anywhere in the world.
Reduction in accommodation and travel costs.
A Cambridge Assessment English approved online course.
Experienced trainers qualified in online teaching.
The same qualifications students receive when completing the face-to-face CELTA course.

Begin your career as an English teacher with Teaching House today

If you’ve been searching for flexible CELTA courses online, then choose Teaching House to begin your teaching journey. As one of the most highly regarded and internationally recognised TEFL certification organisations in the world, we are committed to helping you reach your goals. Sign up to begin your CELTA certificate online course today, and a whole world of opportunities will come your way. In addition to our CELTA online course, we also offer a TEFL certification course and a CELTA course at a number of different locations across the world.

CELTA Course Fees

CELTA 2024 Course Fees:

Online: The full cost of the online CELTA program for 2024 is $2,895 USD/£1,390 GBP / $3,195 AUD.
Face-to-face: The cost of the face-to-face CELTA program, inclusive of tuition, Cambridge fee, registration fee and all applicable taxes, is as follows:
- New York City: $2,945 USD
- Miami: $2,945 USD
- Boston: $2,945 USD
- Toronto: $2,495 CAD
- London: £1,390 GBP (2024) £1,445 GBP (2025)
- Oxford: £1,390 GBP (2024) £1,445 GBP (2025)

Please note:

This fee does not include accommodation.
You can pay in installments, as long as the full course fee is received at least five weeks in advance of the course start date.
The cost is the same for the full-time and part-time CELTA course.
This cost includes a $200 USD/£100 GBP / $250 AUD enrolment deposit that will secure your place on the course of your choice. Your remaining course fee is due 5 weeks before your course begins.
Certificate shipping may incur an additional fee. (Domestic shipping to the USA is included in the US course fee)

Early bird discount!

Take advantage of our earlybird promotion and confirm your enrolment early to receive a discount on your course fees.

UK - online and face-to-face: Confirm your enrolment three weeks before your course commences and receive a £100 (2024) / £150 (2025) discount off your course fees.
USA online only: Confirm your enrolment five weeks before your course commences and receive a $400 discount off your course fees.
Australia - online only: Confirm your enrolment three weeks before your course commences and receive a $300 discount off your course fees.

Enrolment deposit:

CELTA candidates are required to pay a non-refundable $200/£100/ $250 AUD enrolment fee. This deposit is paid after the CELTA candidate has completed the application process, interviewed with one of our tutors, and has been accepted onto the course. Once payment of the enrolment fee has been made, we confirm a place on the course of your choice, subject to places still being available.

Pay this year for the 2024 price, even for a 2025 course!

No application fee:

There is no fee to apply for the Teaching House CELTA, and applicants are in no way committed to taking the course after submitting an application. Because places are limited on our CELTA courses (the maximum ratio of trainees to teacher trainers is 6:1), it is advisable to apply for a place as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Books and materials:

CELTA Trainees can choose to buy a methodology book and grammar book, but these are not required (information on these books will be provided during the application process). This is completely optional, and we have copies of these books available at all of our face-to-face centers.

Teaching House does, however, recommend two books that we believe will be beneficial in your teaching career and as a complement to the CELTA course. These are books that the staff at Teaching House have used and found to be extremely useful in our own teaching careers. You are not required to buy these books, and if you already have a grammar book and/or methodology book in your possession, it will probably not be necessary to buy another.

We recommend that you get one methodology book and one grammar book for the CELTA course:

Methodology Book

Learning Teaching
- Jim Scrivener
- ISBN:
- Macmillan Education

This book covers a range of essential theory and methodology. It includes practical teaching ideas, example lessons and samples from current teaching materials.

Grammar Book

Practical English Usage
- Michael Swan
- ISBN: X
- Oxford University Press, USA

Considered by many ESL teachers to be 'the bible' of ESL grammar books. There are larger grammar books on the market, but for teachers in their first few years of teaching, this really is a good solid book to help you comprehend those tricky language issues.

The Enrollment Process

The Teaching House Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of other languages (CELTA) enrollment process is designed with three aims in mind:

To provide the applicant with a clear idea of what the course is, what to expect to get from it and what is required to succeed.
To ensure that once an applicant has been accepted, they have a very high chance of successfully completing the course.
To ensure those who are accepted have a high probability of qualifying for and attaining ESL teaching work in the country or city of their choice.

Pre-Requisites:

An applicant must have a standard of education equivalent to that required for entry into higher education.
An applicant must be over the age of 18.
An applicant must have a standard of English which will enable them to teach at a range of levels, equivalent to a high C1 level on the CEFR.

The process for enrolling:

All interested trainees must complete the application form located here. There is NO application fee. If you are not able to successfully complete the online application form, you can request an application via email (as a word document) through our contact us page. To ensure that you receive our emails promptly, please add to your Allowed Emails list.
After reviewing your application, a member of our enrollment team will follow up by email and send you an assignment called the Pre-Interview Task. This task is a series of language and teaching activities designed to give trainees an idea of what the course (and teaching English!) is all about.
Once we have received your Pre-Interview Task, we will schedule a time for an interview that is convenient for you. Most interviews are conducted via telephone or Zoom but in-person interviews are available at our New York, Boston, London, Melbourne and Toronto locations.
The interview is a chance for you to speak to an experienced course trainer. The trainer will discuss your work from the Pre-Interview Task to gain a better understanding of your potential for English Language Teaching. The interview also provides an opportunity to speak with an enrollment advisor about the enrollment process and payment options.
After acceptance, you must pay an enrollment deposit to confirm your place on the course of your choice (subject to availability—given on a first-come, first-served basis). The amount of enrollment deposit depends on your course location.
The remainder of your course fee (less the enrollment deposit) is due no later than five weeks before the beginning of the course.

Course Content

CELTA COURSE CONTENT - THE TESOL SESSIONS

Have you ever sat through a class or seminar and wondered if there was a practical application to what was being taught? Or attended lectures that felt more like endurance tests in note-taking than actual learning experiences?

We’ve all been there because we’ve all experienced, at some point in our lives, a teacher standing at the head of the class talking us.

Thankfully, this style of teaching has no place in a thriving language-learning environment. Instead, a modern language lesson is an interactive process that requires experimentation, a willingness to make mistakes, immersion into real-life situations, a genuine need to use language and a great deal of student talking (instead of time spent listening to the teacher).

_SO, WHAT DOES THIS KIND OF TESOL CLASSROOM LOOK LIKE?

For one, you will not find clearly delineated rows of silent students writing in notebooks and looking at their teacher, the only speaker in the room.

Instead, the TESOL classroom has students with moveable desks facing each other, or groups of students moving around the classroom with a paper and pen in hand talking to other students while consulting the whiteboard for a word they might need, or grabbing the teacher to ask a question.

You may see a teacher milling around the classroom ducking into groups of students to listen and take notes. The teacher may move quietly from group to group without interfering until suddenly they signal an end to that phase by directing the students’ attention towards a language point or vocabulary word on the board.

Yes, there will be times when students are sitting quietly, writing in their notebooks. After all, there are vocabulary words to be recorded, grammar examples to be written down and sometimes there are writing exercises to be executed. But more often than not, a good TESOL classroom will be alive with students’ voices as they verbally play with the language they’re learning. The teacher in these scenarios is very much a resource and a facilitator. They control when one activity ends and another begins and they insert language and meaning when students are struggling to find the language they need to express themselves. This is what active learning looks like.

SO, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ME? WHAT DOES MY CLASSROOM LOOK LIKE WHEN MY TUTORS ARE TEACHING MY TESOL SESSIONS?

For reasons of demonstration and because the process of learning is active rather than passive, your Course Sessions on language teaching will look very similar to the kinds of language classes you will be teaching.

You will not be lectured at or expected to memorize tomes of information. You will, however, learn teaching methodology through the same techniques we’re encouraging you to use in your own classroom. The process shouldn’t be silent, and it should be fun.

Your tutors will teach you about how to effectively teach grammar, for example, by demonstrating techniques on you and asking you to work in groups or pairs to analyze and discuss the tools used and how these could apply to your own TESOL classroom. Though the idea of teaching grammar often evokes fear in the hearts of first-time teachers, your trainers will demonstrate how a grammar lesson may start with something as simple as a game.

There will be no grammar trees and no lectures using sentence diagrams. The key is engagement and practical application.

You’ll also attend a TESOL Session on how to create your own authentic materials for the classroom (which is also an assignment you’ll complete on the course). Your tutor isn’t going to lecture you on the different types of authentic lessons available, expecting you to take notes and understand the theory without the practice. They’re going to engage you in learning from an authentic materials lesson they’ve created. And as you’re doing the exercises as a student, you’ll also be exposed to the methods used and asked to analyze in groups and pairs the different types of techniques you found effective for learning.

You’re in the hands of experts now. And CELTA trainers are not lecturers. They are expert educators. They have had years of experience with language learners and in training teachers; they know how to engage you in the process of becoming experts in your own right.

Here are some of the topics that your sessions cover. All sessions are practical in nature, with some foundation in theory, and demonstrate techniques that you can use immediately in the language lessons you teach.

The following areas are among those that will be covered:

How to teach grammar and vocabulary effectively
How to motivate your students
How to help your students get the most out of a reading text
How to order the stages of a lesson
How to influence the dynamics of a classroom for the best results
How to use teaching books and materials effectively
How to bring authentic materials – articles, songs, stories – into the classroom

There are also sessions on a range of topics to help you find the best teaching jobs at the best schools.

These sessions include:

Where to find the best TESOL jobs
How to write an effective resume and cover letter
What kinds of questions to expect in an interview
What to expect from a TESOL contract (including housing, flights and medical care)

Course Schedule

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