About Us
The TEFL Lab is a dedicated teacher training centre, and we specialise in training people to become Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
Our aim is to train teachers right at the start of their career, so that they can provide the high standards of English teaching that is in demand throughout the world. With this in mind we’ve set ourselves three simple goals:
- To encourage intelligent, talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds to choose English teaching as a career
- To give our students the best training possible, using excellent course materials and inspirational teaching methods
- To send our new teachers out into the world, confident and fully equipped to teach English anywhere on the planet
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As promised, I’m giving you my book tips for surviving your CELTA course. 
Four weeks isn’t very long. Whichever way you look at it, it is a short space of time. This is what was most blindsiding to me when I began my CELTA. I had friends who spent years at university becoming teachers and they were doing very well for themselves because of it, and I was supposed to be a teacher after four short weeks? I was disinclined to believe such a notion, but it seemed to indeed be a tried and tested formula so I dove right in.
We must first get through the rigmarole of online forms and interviews. Aside from the usual requirements: education, past employment and the fact you have a strong individual initiative as well as being able to work well as part of a team, there are a couple of extras. For instance there are a few language awareness questions, and for mine, I also had to write 500 words on my best language learning experience. I must admit, the first time I was faced with this online form, I closed the window and had to return to it at a later date. However, I did manage to re-group and was called for an interview.
The CELTA. Where it all begins, where you learn from the oracles of TEFL and begin your emotional rollercoaster of a journey into the unknown TEFL world. I mean, yes, this is true, my tutor Danny was an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful TEFL being, without whom I would have no clue how to function in this world in which I currently reside. BUT, it is one’s motivation to do a CELTA that I feel is wholly more fundamental.
