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PGCE teachers doing the CELTA and failed?
Posted By: Bjorn <mbibt@yahoo.no>
Date: Thursday, 18 February 2010, at 11:20 a.m.
As a certified science teacher with an MSc and PGCE I was pretty confident that the CELTA was going the be an acceptable task (not easy, I knew it was intense). I dropped out after 3 weeks completely exhausted. Although I was told I was probably going to pass I just couldn't stand it anymore. I am not blaming my tutors. They were generally great (not all of them though). It was more the CELTA style that was driving me mad.
With my former training I felt I had to unlearn so much just to conform to the CELTA style that I couldn't bear it any more. All these CCQ's and IQQ's ( Are we going to work in pair? Yes, we are going to work in pairs........blablaaaa). I felt like a robot sometimes. Again, I am not blaming my tutors, it's just that the celta style wasn't my cup of tea.I do agree with the communicative approach in language learning,I just need to have the freedom to develop my own style. Funny though, I am still working as a teacher( mostly science and math) here in Norway, and I may say, a successful one, judged by student feedback and exam results (with external assessment of course).
Maybe the SIT course would be better for me as I believe this is not so rigid and perhaps more open to creative teachers
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