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etx
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khmerhit
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Classic site. Thanx fer posting. Check out the cartoonZ.  PS---if you ever abandon Vodkaberg, get yourself to Hollywood and write comedy--seriously.
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tedkarma
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The CELTA course isn't known for being difficult - only for the unrealistic quantity of work piled on you in such a short time.
People who like to think things through - process what they are doing - will have more trouble with CELTA - and most likely be more successful with TEFL Cert courses.
Uh . . . just my opinion. |
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Solar Strength
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the course throws too much at you in too short a period of time.
you cannot absorb it all.
it wouldn't be all that difficult if you had 2 or 3 months instead of a month. |
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dmb
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| you cannot absorb it all. |
Sounds a bit like students who think they can learn English in a couple of months.
15 years down the line I am still absorbing |
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SueH
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| Solar Strength wrote: |
the course throws too much at you in too short a period of time.
you cannot absorb it all.
it wouldn't be all that difficult if you had 2 or 3 months instead of a month. |
I did mine part time at a local FE college (= to community college in US, I think). It allowed more extensive reading, but the problem is that the work expanded to fill the time available. Not quite as hectic as the four week course, I'd admit! |
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khmerhit
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By the third week i was cursing the cognitive/educational shrinks who devised it. In the fourth week i turned to an old man in my group and lost my rag with him. Not v pleasant. V manipulative. Worse than being married. You listenin, Cambridge??   pedagogues!! |
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jammish
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the course throws too much at you in too short a period of time.
you cannot absorb it all.
it wouldn't be all that difficult if you had 2 or 3 months instead of a month. |
Which is why cannier folks take the 3 month part time course  |
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jammish
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| SueH wrote: |
| Solar Strength wrote: |
the course throws too much at you in too short a period of time.
you cannot absorb it all.
it wouldn't be all that difficult if you had 2 or 3 months instead of a month. |
I did mine part time at a local FE college (= to community college in US, I think). It allowed more extensive reading, but the problem is that the work expanded to fill the time available. Not quite as hectic as the four week course, I'd admit! |
Me too. It was great, as it meant I could continue working while taking the course. At that point I wouldn't have been financially able to stop working and take the full time course, so it suited me really well. |
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Spinoza
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I'm calling BS on this CELTA story, folks.
For a start, CELTA trainers are monitored externally by, er, external CELTA people or something. You can't just fail someone for the whole course just because of incidents like that. You're evaluated on a lesson plan, your materials, aims of a lesson and whether those aims were achieved.
Look at this: "I was using very inappropriate words during my classes such as �awesome�, �cool�, �wicked�. I was overly enthusiastic and used too much body language. They thought I gave the students to much praise and it was cutting into my Teacher Talk Time."
What about his other classes? Was this the case with all of them or was he given a chance to put it 'right'? Teacher talk time is important but you just don't get a fail overall for these sorts of things. And the stuff about bitterness towards him for looking at hot Brazilian babes on a website...with adults? Please.
The author of this clearly has a problem with (a) politically-correct women and (b) fat chicks - he mentions both several times.
And it all ends happily ever after with this guy making a packet and "franchis[ing] it out all over Asia and South America". No, sorry. All sounds like made-up rubbish to me. |
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slaqdog
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:01 pm Post subject: rings true |
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| While what you say about his problems with 'pc+fat chicks' may be correct his story does ring true, it is at least possible in the TEFL world. English Teacher X has some very funny tales and they are all too real. |
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Deconstructor
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| CELTA!! What a ripoff!! It takes 3 months to become a barber and a month to become an international language teacher. No wonder EFL is such a joke where everything goes. While teaching overseas, I couldn't stop laughing in my head. That laughter was the only healthy thing about the job. |
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konyoku
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| I couldn't agree with you more, Deconstructor. |
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stillnosheep
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In the absence of a fully qualified hair technician fresh from a three year stint at Toni&Guy's Hair Academy who would you rather let loose on your hai?
Someone who had taken the time and trouble to spend a month learning from, observing and being observed by experienced and qualified professionals or some eejit who was picking up a pair of scissors for the first time in his life mouthing off about how training was a rip off? |
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konyoku
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| Well....I believe cutting hair requires a lot more skill than teaching EFL. |
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