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CELT-P

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Important information

CELT-P will be retiring on 31 October 2023. We are no longer accepting new courses and entries.

However, we will continue to provide support for the course until 31 July 2023.*

If you are looking to offer or take an alternative course for primary teachers, we have our Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) qualifications. TKT is designed for new and experienced teachers who want to develop and prove their teaching skills with an internationally recognised certificate. We provide courses and materials to help you prepare for the TKT Modules.

We also offer online teacher development courses, which can be taken as self-study and include many of the topics covered in CELT-P.

*Support for China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan will be available until 31 October 2023.

The CELT-P course helps your teachers to:

  • improve their classroom teaching
  • successfully deliver lessons according to the curriculum
  • apply their learning to classroom situations.
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CELT-P is a 120-hour course, which combines online study and teaching practice. You can see descriptions of each course component below.

There are 27 hours of optional additional material for teachers to extend and practise what they have learned during the online course, which is delivered face-to-face in the classroom.

Course component Content
English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology
Nine online modules
  • Key concepts and principles
  • A range of activities that engage participants with course content
  • Regular progress tests to check learning.
Optional face-to-face seminar for each online module
  • Extension of the online materials
  • Practice activities and support: up to 27 hours of face-to-face study.
Teaching practice
A practical written task for each online module
  • A range of tasks in which participants apply their online learning in their classroom.
Teaching observations
  • Developmental feedback from trainers
  • Consolidation of online learning.

There are nine CELT-P modules. All nine modules focus on theory and practice and can be completed in any order.

Module Content
1 Language awareness for teaching
  • Grammar: word classes, grammar structures and how to use language for different functions
  • Vocabulary: key concepts, word formation and combining words
  • Pronunciation: key concepts, word and sentence stress, connected speech and intonation.
2 Developing listening and speaking skills in the primary classroom
  • Developing listening skills
  • Developing speaking skills
  • Integrating listening and speaking.
3 Developing reading and writing skills in the primary classroom
  • Developing reading skills
  • Developing writing skills
  • Topic-based teaching – integrating skills.
4 Resources for learning in the primary classroom
  • Using and adapting resources in the younger learner primary classroom
  • Using and adapting resources with older primary learners
  • Using and creating supplementary materials.
5 Managing the primary classroom
  • Creating and maintaining a constructive learning environment
  • Managing primary classroom activities effectively
  • Managing differences in the classroom.
6 Developing language use in the primary classroom
  • Key concepts, principles and techniques in teaching language in the primary sector
  • How to teach grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation to different age groups.
7 Language learning and the primary learner
  • Characteristics of the primary learner
  • The primary young learner in the educational context
  • Teacher language in the primary classroom.
8 Planning language learning in the primary context
  • Planning a lesson
  • Writing lesson plans
  • Planning a programme of work.
9 Assessing language learning in the primary context
  • Principles and purposes of classroom-based assessment
  • Formative classroom assessment
  • Summative assessment.

Each module has a number of lessons, which all have the following structure:

  • an introduction to the topic
  • learning activities
  • activities that check learning
  • activities that focus on practical classroom applications
  • a review of what’s been learned
  • a short, multiple-choice progress test
  • further reading.

You will be assessed in the following ways:

Assessment component Assessment type
English Language Teaching methodology
  • Completion of the online modules and progress tests
  • A multiple-choice teaching knowledge test (TKT:YL).
Teaching practice
  • Completion of portfolio tasks
  • Assessment of teaching.

Participants who complete all the modules and assessments will receive the CELT-P qualification. The qualification is awarded at Pass or Pass with Merit.

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