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itiswhatitis
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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:16 am Post subject: The CELTA in Korea/Seoul |
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I want to take a CELTA so that I can have better opportunities for teaching adults in other countries.
Anyone ever taken it in Seoul/Korea?
I wonder if I have to attend classes in person or if it can all be done online.
Thanks in advance. |
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SunShan
Joined: 22 Sep 2013
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:34 am Post subject: Re: The CELTA in Korea/Seoul |
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| itiswhatitis wrote: |
I want to take a CELTA so that I can have better opportunities for teaching adults in other countries.
Anyone ever taken it in Seoul/Korea?
I wonder if I have to attend classes in person or if it can all be done online.
Thanks in advance. |
I've just done the CELTA in the UK. Don't know anything about Korea, but the reason why CELTA is valued is because it's not online and you must complete 6 hours of observed teaching. I really enjoyed it and learnt loads, so I would definitely recommend doing one. |
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scott1985
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I was looking into a CELTA course in Seoul 6 months ago. The only course I could find was on during the day when I normally work.
I ended up enrolling at Seoul National University of Education for 200 hours TESOL. The teaching was good, but the university for very disorganised. |
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edwardcatflap
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: The CELTA in Korea/Seoul |
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| SunShan wrote: |
| I've just done the CELTA in the UK. Don't know anything about Korea, but the reason why CELTA is valued is because it's not online and you must complete 6 hours of observed teaching. I really enjoyed it and learnt loads, so I would definitely recommend doing one. |
The CELTA can also be done as a blended course with a lot of the coursework done on-line and an observed practicum component.
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-qualifications/celta/ways-to-take-celta/
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: The CELTA in Korea/Seoul |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| SunShan wrote: |
| I've just done the CELTA in the UK. Don't know anything about Korea, but the reason why CELTA is valued is because it's not online and you must complete 6 hours of observed teaching. I really enjoyed it and learnt loads, so I would definitely recommend doing one. |
The CELTA can also be done as a blended course with a lot of the coursework done on-line and an observed practicum component.
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-qualifications/celta/ways-to-take-celta/
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I just emailed these guys and they said their classroom component will most likely be on a Tuesday or Thursday from 9 to 11 am. If you work days, public schools, or live outside of Seoul, you're SOL.
Why does every institute or university insist on teaching TESOL or CELTA's this way? Wouldn't it be more common sense to do one of these on a Saturday when people are actually free?
Anyhow, hopefully we can keep requesting these groups offer a weekend. |
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somethingclever
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| Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:21 am Post subject: Sookmyung |
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I'm about halfway through the TESOL certificate course at SookMyung.
It's only on Saturdays between 2-10(ish) usually a little before. The course is pretty demanding compared to a TESOL course I took in Canada (100+20hours). There is about 4-5hrs of homework per week.
If you take it seriously and put in the work it shouldn't be too much trouble.
http://tesol.sookmyung.ac.kr/workshop/workshop01_10.php |
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mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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| Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: The CELTA in Korea/Seoul |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
I just emailed these guys and they said their classroom component will most likely be on a Tuesday or Thursday from 9 to 11 am. If you work days, public schools, or live outside of Seoul, you're SOL.
Why does every institute or university insist on teaching TESOL or CELTA's this way? Wouldn't it be more common sense to do one of these on a Saturday when people are actually free?
Anyhow, hopefully we can keep requesting these groups offer a weekend. |
I did a CELTA course last year in the US. It was an entire month, 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and then you'd be up half the night doing lesson planning. You had the weekends to yourself but you'd spend the entire time doing assignments or more lesson planning. It's definitely very tough on the students and you will not really have any personal time for a month.
It's definitely not convenient for most people. I and a few other people were unemployed at the time so we had the time for it. Other people were college students but they had to miss their first week of college classes because the CELTA course overlapped with it. One student was self-employed and got in trouble with the instructors for arriving late due to a meeting she was unable to get out of. I think they do it like that just to get it out of the way during the space of a month, because it requires so many hours of in-class stuff.
I think there are courses where you meet like once or twice a week but that must make it last several months. I guess the question is whether you want to get the course out of the way and start teaching, or if you want to spread it out way more and not feel like you're in boot camp.
With all that said, the main question is whether CELTA will be worth it for you. In Korea, I really don't think it's that useful. For one thing nobody's heard about it here, it's not like the Middle East or Europe where it's considered to be the best. Here it's just another TEFL certificate, and nobody will care if you did a bare-bones cheapo TEFL course. CELTA will definitely make you a better teacher, and its teaching practice was great for me to get over my butterflies, but at $2000 to $2500 for the course, it is really really expensive considering that hardly anybody in Korea will value it. Also it's focused on teaching adults, and in Korea you most probably will not be teaching adults.
Now if you want to leave Korea and go teach in Europe or the Middle East or whatever (as the OP says) then CELTA will probably be a good leg-up. But then you'd have to be able to deal with the boredom and conservatism of the Middle East or the low pay in Europe. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: Sookmyung |
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| somethingclever wrote: |
I'm about halfway through the TESOL certificate course at SookMyung.
It's only on Saturdays between 2-10(ish) usually a little before. The course is pretty demanding compared to a TESOL course I took in Canada (100+20hours). There is about 4-5hrs of homework per week.
If you take it seriously and put in the work it shouldn't be too much trouble.
http://tesol.sookmyung.ac.kr/workshop/workshop01_10.php |
How many hours is it? Do you have to do an interview to get into it?
http://tesol.sookmyung.ac.kr/workshop/workshop02.php |
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Majeh
Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:32 pm Post subject: Blended CELTA program in Seoul starting in Feb 2014 |
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I emailed the British Council in Seoul and they will be offering a blended CELTA (theory online, practicum live) next February. The cost will be about KRW2,340,000.
You need to go to their website in December 2013 to check out the details. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| For teaching opportunities in SE Asia as well as the European union CELTA is the way to go. Sad but true. |
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