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Re: PGCE teachers doing the CELTA and failed?

Posted By: muffinman
Date: Thursday, 12 April 2012, at 10:31 a.m.

In Response To: Re: PGCE teachers doing the CELTA and failed? (richard mullins)

Ah, the perennial CELTA debate.
As others have said, the course is what it claims to be, and nothing more.
If you are an informed career second language teacher you understand the difference between teacher training and teacher education. If you want to learn how to behave like a teacher based on a trainer's notion of how that should look, get training. If you want to learn how to think for yourself and develop a personal, well-informed, principled theory on teaching and learning that allows you to be flexible and responsive enough to teach effectively in a variety of contexts, get an education. CELTA is a training course, so is not very receptive to thinking 'outside the box' of a prescriptive method or any kind of reflective practice - the time constraints of the course also don't allow for that. Those who claim CELTA is anything more are misinformed.

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PGCE teachers doing the CELTA and failed?
Bjorn -- Thursday, 18 February 2010, at 11:20 a.m.

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My Name is Joe and I AM. CANADIAN. -- Saturday, 20 February 2010, at 7:33 p.m.

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Global teacher -- Saturday, 20 February 2010, at 2:08 p.m.

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The Critic -- Sunday, 21 February 2010, at 11:59 p.m.

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jenny -- Monday, 22 February 2010, at 10:56 p.m.

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My Name is Joe and I AM. CANADIAN. -- Tuesday, 23 February 2010, at 4:02 p.m.

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Bjorn -- Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 12:39 a.m.

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Ari Sha Dupp -- Friday, 26 February 2010, at 1:54 p.m.

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Bjorn -- Tuesday, 23 February 2010, at 6:54 a.m.

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The Critic -- Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 9:45 a.m.

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Bjorn -- Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 10:04 p.m.

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The Critic -- Thursday, 25 February 2010, at 7:36 a.m.

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Ari Sha Dupp -- Friday, 26 February 2010, at 1:59 p.m.

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spiral78 -- Thursday, 25 February 2010, at 11:40 p.m.

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The Critic -- Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 9:32 a.m.

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The Critic -- Thursday, 25 February 2010, at 3:01 a.m.

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Sam -- Sunday, 7 March 2010, at 9:38 a.m.

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Maureen Jensen -- Monday, 8 March 2010, at 12:56 p.m.

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oobe1 -- Wednesday, 10 March 2010, at 10:29 a.m.

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Martin McMorrow -- Friday, 26 February 2010, at 8:55 p.m.

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Global Teacher -- Saturday, 27 February 2010, at 10:58 p.m.

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Janet White -- Sunday, 28 February 2010, at 7:31 a.m.

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Bjorn -- Monday, 1 March 2010, at 7:42 a.m.

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The Critic -- Tuesday, 2 March 2010, at 2:05 a.m.

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Global Teacher -- Tuesday, 2 March 2010, at 2:22 p.m.

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Indrani -- Tuesday, 2 March 2010, at 12:57 p.m.

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Indrani -- Tuesday, 2 March 2010, at 12:55 p.m.

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Sam -- Friday, 5 March 2010, at 9:25 p.m.

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Martin McMorrow -- Friday, 5 March 2010, at 7:11 p.m.

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richard mullins -- Saturday, 7 April 2012, at 5:56 a.m.

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The Critic -- Tuesday, 10 April 2012, at 12:17 a.m.

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Globa;l Teacher -- Monday, 9 April 2012, at 3:32 p.m.

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Bjorn -- Wednesday, 11 April 2012, at 2:32 a.m.

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spiral78 -- Wednesday, 11 April 2012, at 2:20 p.m.

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Tim -- Friday, 13 April 2012, at 2:16 a.m.

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spiral78 -- Friday, 13 April 2012, at 6:50 p.m.

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Bjorn -- Wednesday, 11 April 2012, at 12:21 a.m.

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The Critic -- Thursday, 12 April 2012, at 11:46 a.m.

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Tim -- Thursday, 12 April 2012, at 5:37 p.m.

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Tim -- Tuesday, 10 April 2012, at 4:03 p.m.

Re: PGCE teachers doing the CELTA and failed?
muffinman -- Thursday, 12 April 2012, at 10:31 a.m.

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