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Hardest part of the DELTA course?
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twowheel



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Many thanks for your highly helpful advice, smedini.

I am considering a Delta and if I decide to go all in on that endeavor, I would prefer to do a full-time intensive course. I am currently looking at CELT Athens, Clic IH Seville, and IH Newcastle.

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CKM



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bumped again

twowheel wrote:
I would prefer to do a full-time intensive course. I am currently looking at CELT Athens, Clic IH Seville, and IH Newcastle.

twowheel


Did you go for it? I'm in a similar frame of mind and Celt Athens have a few intensive options during the year which would suit me.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
For anyone considering working in the Middle East it might be worth studying everything in your home country if you can. Employers generally look for degrees and certs issued in your home country or in an anglophone country...
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CKM



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
currentaffairs wrote:
For anyone considering working in the Middle East it might be worth studying everything in your home country if you can. Employers generally look for degrees and certs issued in your home country or in an anglophone country...


As far as I'm aware, certain countries in the Middle East (e.g. Saudi Arabia) don't recognise distance/online degrees, so I presume that would extend to doing the distance Delta?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
CKM wrote:
currentaffairs wrote:
For anyone considering working in the Middle East it might be worth studying everything in your home country if you can. Employers generally look for degrees and certs issued in your home country or in an anglophone country...


As far as I'm aware, certain countries in the Middle East (e.g. Saudi Arabia) don't recognise distance/online degrees, so I presume that would extend to doing the distance Delta?


Right. Better to do the intensive somewhere.
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CKM



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
currentaffairs wrote:


Right. Better to do the intensive somewhere.


Thanks. That's what I'm leaning towards - for a number of reasons.

Any opinions on preparation for an intensive Delta? How much is necessary/beneficial?

From what I've figured out, the bulk of the intensive is focused on module 2, as that's what you're assessed on during the course. Modules 1 and 3 are assessed after the course, so you'll probably have time to further prepare for 1 and 3 assessments after the course has ended.
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Elicit



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have met many teachers who have completed individual modules of the DELTA, normally one or three and sometimes both, and all say that they will get around to doing module two... someday. Having to up-sticks for six weeks and do module two isn't ideal for many, so I also see the positives of just doing the intensive eight week option.

Logistically, it may be easier for me to do the Trinity Dip TESOL instead. From what I've read they are viewed as equivalent; however, I have met only one teacher with a Dip TESOL and tens of teachers with DELTA or individual modules thereof. Is it merely the brand name that matters here? Will employers actually lean toward the DELTA because it only has two syllables?

I would be willing to compromise the extra time, travel, and money associated with me personally completing the DELTA, if there is any chance of an advantage via recognisability or otherwise. I have a CELTA if that makes any difference. Any advice would be much appreciated.

If the consensus is equal in every respect then does anybody know if EF China's Dip TESOL course is open to any practicing teacher or is it just for those super-beings currently employed by EF?
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twowheel



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have not gone for it, but it very much remains in the back of my mind. I am in the middle of a one-year sabbatical and am considering ways of upping my credentials when I re-emerge from this break.

The full-time intensive course at CELT Athens does remain very attractive to me.

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