TESOL Teacher Training Overview

International House London has always been recognized as a centre of teacher training excellence in the ELT (English Language Teaching) / TESOL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) industry. It continues to offer a wide range of quality Teacher Training courses to meet a variety of needs and requirements.

Initial Teacher Training Qualification Courses

If you wish to acquire a basic qualification to teach English to speakers of other languages - either in the UK or abroad - the Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) is probably the course you are looking for.

The Cambridge CELTA course was originally developed by teacher trainers at IH London and is now validated by the University of Cambridge (Cambridge - ESOL).

To attend a CELTA course you should:

• have a standard of education which would allow you entry to higher education in your country
• have a high level of English
• be at least 20 years old

Professional Development Programmes

The next level up is the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA) and candidates usually should have 2 years teaching experience after taking the CELTA course.

Both CELTA and DELTA courses are open to native speakers and non-native speakers with a high level of communicative competence in English.

Special Courses for Overseas Teachers

Non-native teachers of English wanting to develop both their English language and teaching skills may find that our Teacher Training Special Courses are more appropriate and relevant to their needs.

These courses can qualify for Comenius grants for EU nationals.

We also run our IH Certificate in TESOL (not to be confused with the CELTA course), which is aimed primarily at clients whose first language is not English. The course is run along the same lines as the CELTA programme with lectures, seminars and some supervised teaching practice.

Management Training

For the ELT professional wanting to develop either expertise in teacher training or to develop educational management skills, our range of Management Training courses will be most appropriate.