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BlkOwl1 · Joined: 14 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

Wayne, This thread is like a good read with the last few pages missing. Please tell us if you quit or not, and if not, how things are going now? Everyone else, please don't let Mrs McClusky divert the subject matter of this thread. -You 22 year olds just can't keep your focus!! - I'm kidding here! So, let's get back on topic, please! SHANE??!! I mean WAYNE??!!

wayne1523 · Joined: 02 Apr 2010 Posts: 100 Location: Toronto, Canada

I did quit unfortunately. I already had while I wrote the original post. And I sort of regret it. I was being impulsive and immature and I let my frustrated emotions get the best of me, especially when one of my trainers said something that really ticked me off. I just abruptly walked right out the place in anger. I apologized to my trainers and asked if I could make a return by any chance, but by then I had already missed a teaching practice session and an external observation. One of them said unfortunately, it was too late and we all agreed that it would be better that when I'm ready again, I'll retake the course part-time. I think part-time would be alot more reasonable for me.

Meanwhile, although very disappointing, I've moved on and I think I'm going to get some experience first. I find out whether or not I get accepted by my Korean program in 2 weeks or so. I went into the summer applying for the CELTA course and this government-sponsored Korean program. So, I hope that I can be 1/2. That won't be so bad would it? If they take me, then I'll be gone for half-year to a year and when I come back, maybe it can be time to re-consider the CELTA. But yea, what's done is done. Can't look back. Still many great things to look forward to. =)

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

It's not un-heard of, Wayne. There were two guys on my course who (on separate occasions and for different reasons) put their fists through walls. You've taken it in a positive way and I guess you will be able to make some positive moves in future - good luck to you.

And thanks for giving us the Rest of the Story (so far). Hopefully an Ultimate Success Story later on Very Happy

wayne1523 · Joined: 02 Apr 2010 Posts: 100 Location: Toronto, Canada

Haha thanks alot spiral. Everybody's encouragement and support has been very refreshing and helpful. But yes, I remain persistent. I'll be back.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject:

Second Spiral's words.

Best of luck for the future.

Hod · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home

Sorry, but whilst the CELTA is challenging, it�s only four weeks.

On my course, which was taken in the UK, we had an American trainee whose dad died during her CELTA week 3. She had no chance to fly home until ten days later, so she stuck around and finished her CELTA. What�s more, she didn�t mope around or expect any special treatment. Up to that point, she hadn�t been doing so well either, having failed one teaching practice. But she still passed overall.

No one should drop out of the four-week CELTA

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject:

Ah go easy on him. He's just a young lad yet.

wayne1523 · Joined: 02 Apr 2010 Posts: 100 Location: Toronto, Canada

Hod's right.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject:

Yeah, he is, but it sounds like you've learnt something valuable from this. Whatever else might be said about your youth, at least you are still in a position to move on from past misjudgements.

fluffyhamster · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject:

Just thought this might be of interest:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=74059

fladude · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 432

Don't give up on teaching. Sign up for a TEFL program and give it another go. Sometimes we all do dumb things. Trust me when I say that I have done a LOT worse than quit a CELTA program, but I am still alive!!!!

One of the best teachers that I know works down the hall from me and he is 23......

BenE · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 321

Man all this talk of failing or dropping out of the CELTA reminds me of my mid-CELTA crisis many people seem to have. I failed a lesson for explaining too much about a grammar point and becoming too teacher-centred. Oh yeah I was also a trainee with no prior experience.

The next lesson I passed but it happened again in the one after that and I remember the agonising wait for the results of the lesson that I thought I had failed. In the end the tutor let me 'just' pass that lesson (as the objectives were still met) and that gave me the faith burst I needed to power myself through the rest of the course. I remember after passing the final teaching component I drank so much in the evening that I had to wear dark glasses on the final teaching day of the CELTA (which I didn't have to teach on) and get some extra sleep in order to be able to focus on anything.

Not long now and I'll be fighting for the dreaded DELTA...