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stevenpaul99
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 Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject: Are my qualifications enough? |
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Hello. Im wanting to go teach in Vietnam for a year. I do not have a CELTA etc but do have BA, PGCE, QTS and 4 years experience teaching english language and literature. Would I be crazy to pay for a CELTA? Many thanks for any replies Steve.  |
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H5N1
Joined: 15 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Are my qualifications enough? |
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| stevenpaul99 wrote: |
| Hello. Im wanting to go teach in Vietnam for a year. I do not have a CELTA etc but do have BA, PGCE, QTS and 4 years experience teaching english language and literature. Would I be crazy to pay for a CELTA? Many thanks for any replies Steve. |
With a PGCE, you should not spend the time, money, and effort to do the celta, IMO.
Maybe some of the points in the celta program could be helpful, although the PGCE is training for non efl teaching. By observing some teachers and/or reading some books on elf methods such as Info Gap, personalization, warmers, sentence stress, vocab expansion, etc.
So, in my opinion, no, don't get the celta. |
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legaleagle
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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Location: HCMC
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In a former life, I was the HR Manager at the top international school in Vietnam. There is also a close second school, so perhaps I should say "fighting to be #2". Students were the children of diplomats and other power brokers. Enrollments were limited by nationality, and there was a huge mix of Germans, UK, US, Dutch, Japanese, USA, you name it. No group was over 20% and the top 3 groups were from the west.
With a PGCE you should not mess around with teaching English, if you are looking for a lucrative teaching career. Get onto the International School gravy train, via annual interviews in London in Jan/Feb, or via seek.com in Australia. If you are focused on teaching English, which of course is a PGCE field, then don't do it in some language school assembly line. Instead, do it in a proper International School, with proper students.
Of course, I am mindful that some people plan to go to law school, get a PhD, etc. so if you just want to spend a year teaching English, I would imagine that the PGCE is more than adequate for that as well.
Don't waste your money on the CELTA. They have "some amount of hours" of observed teaching, while you had weeks upon weeks, I presume, in your PGCE.
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stevenpaul99
Joined: 21 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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| Thanks for the advice chaps. Steve. |
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surreycouple
Joined: 06 Oct 2007
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steve, just moved here last week, other half has a job at an International
School - GOOD pay, free flights to/from UK each year, free 2 bed apartment, tax paid by school, medical insurance, gym allowance. They even pay my flights etc and i dont teach....
She was interviewed in London in Jan, applied via the TES website, check it out....
Dont even bother with the CELTA mate not worth it at all for you, other half has PGCE and 3 years exp
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