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Hey! Ive tried to read all discussion topics about my question.Im totally confused,stressed and I need your help.Im a new member from Turkey.Im an English teacher.I dont have any experiences but during my uni edu I had training period twice. I wanna work in abroad especially in Europe.
I was planning to attend a tesl course in berlin but they dont offer the course anymore.Then I found a celta course,but to be honest i really couldnt get the difference.
1.Is celta just for teaching adults?
2.then what does adult mean? what ages?
3.Is it possible to work in some lang centres or highschools,etc?
4.what if I want to teach 7-year-old children?
5.If I get the celta certificate,does it give me the opportunity to work in Eng speaking countries? if not,what should I do?
6.what is celta module 2?
7.is it really beneficial to get delta course?
8.after i get the celta certificate,should I also get celtyl to teach children?
8.do you think attending to a course in greece makes a disadvantage to work in berlin? i mean if I take the course in berlin,is it much more easier to find a job there?
9.if its not a prob,i wanna give you 4links about the courses which seem ok to me
thnx
cheers!

hello - I'll try to answer your questions based on what I know, but I'm not an expert of course and your best bet is to check out the official celta page or the page of the relevant course.

1.Is celta just for teaching adults?
2.then what does adult mean? what ages?
The A stands for adults and there's no special focus given to teaching kids. I think there are teachers with celta's who do teach kids, but - as you mentioned - there is an additional young learner's certificate as well. I think "adult" is somewhat subjective so it would be hard to put an age on it - I'd say high school and/or above but not lower very generally speaking.


3.Is it possible to work in some lang centres or highschools,etc?
Generally yes for language schools but it depends on many factors too numerous to go into here. Briefly, my impression from working in Europe is that many high schools will employ certified local teachers but there are exceptions I'm sure. A degree plus celta is often the requirement for native speaker teachers at language schools - it may be harder to get a job as a non-native speaker - I think this very well may be unfair but it is just often the case. In my experience non-native speaker teachers are often as good as or better than native speaker teachers. Overall, it's a complicated question...and it depends.

4.what if I want to teach 7-year-old children?
I don't know I guess you'd have to figure out where you want to teach them and ask that particular school.

5.If I get the celta certificate,does it give me the opportunity to work in Eng speaking countries? if not,what should I do?
I think because of work permit issues and the fact that lots of native speakers will have advanced degrees, this is unlikely. I don't have any ideas for you on this.

6.what is celta module 2?
I don't really know except that it's a more intensive version of the celta. Here is the blog of someone who took it: from eslbase.com
7.is it really beneficial to get delta course?
This is a big question. Many people feel it is. You tend to need experience as well as the celta or equivalent.
8.after i get the celta certificate,should I also get celtyl to teach children?
It's not a bad idea - it depends on where you want to work if it is required or not. Some tefl courses already include content on teaching kids in the basic course.
8.do you think attending to a course in greece makes a disadvantage to work in berlin? i mean if I take the course in berlin,is it much more easier to find a job there?
Many factors influence how hard it is to find a job, including the job market and work permit regulations. Generally, taking a course in the country you want to work in gives you an advantage in making contacts and getting a headstart on checking out schools. Aside from that, cambridge assessors visit the different celta sites to make sure the course is consistent, so you'll be getting more or less the same or a similar course wherever you take it (the celta)



9.if its not a prob,i wanna give you 4links about the courses which seem ok to me.
As long as you are not advertising those courses that's fine - as you probably saw in the posting guidelines advertising is not allowed. Also keep in mind that beyond general opinions, it's unlikely that people will be able to generalize about which courses are good for what any more than you can do on your own.

Hope this helps - good luck.

thanks a lot.well i see its almost impossible to get a job in Europe.anyway still ive to try..

ive found 5courses but still its very difficult to decide whether to choose a celta or a tefl course.i just wanna be an eng teacher in different countries.what are all these similar certificates for? id really like to hear your opinions about these links

1.berlin-celta
http://berlin.school-of-english.de/celta/celta.html
2.greece-tefl
http://www.globaltesol.gr/
3.greece-tesol
http://www.intesolgreece.org/courses.html
4.greece-tefl
http://www.celt.edu.gr/certificateTEFL.htm
5.greece-celta
http://www.celt.edu.gr/CELTA.htm

I don't have much to add but hopefully some of the other teachers here will weigh in...

The actual celta will be very similar - in content and as a qualification - wherever you take it. Different people will be the trainers of course but it is standardized, so the main advantage of one place over another is generally just if you want to work in that place (maybe a slightly lower price in some places or cheaper accommodation - or if you know the trainers somewhere are particularly good...but this is hard to know).

It's strange to me that for the last one, the school is called the CELT, and they offer a course in addition to the celta called the celt that costs €200 less. It's nothing necessarily bad, but it is odd, to me at least.

One important thing is have real teaching practice with real students (not other teachers sitting in as students or whatever) - and schools may look for that. So if a site isn't clear about it, I'd make sure to ask.