The ‘A’ in CELTA stands for adults. Does that prevent me from getting jobs teaching children?
While the majority of classes our graduates teach in the US are to adults, many people who earn their CELTA certification go on to teach some young learner classes. Yes, the ‘A’ stands for adults, but the reality is that there is such a market abroad for children’s classes that schools will often get you doing young learner classes (and, in fact, with the CELTA, consider you qualified to do so). Many of the skills and techniques you will learn can be adapted for use with children. We also do a session near the end of the course where we look at how to teach children to reflect the fact that many people will be going off around the world to do so. There is such demand for young learner teaching that you may not be able to avoid it in some places in the world! For further information If you still have unanswered questions, then feel free to contact us directly – we are happy to answer any questions that you have.
