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0030 210 3302406
0030 210 3301455
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0030 210 3301202
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77, Academias Street
106 78 Athens Greece
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 info@celt.edu.gr

   

 

Professional Advancement & Career Development

The Cambridge DELTA Diploma is a professional qualification at post-graduate level and is one of the most sought after and well respected qualifications internationally. It is recognised by all British Universities and is fast becoming a prerequisite for some of the most interesting jobs in our field all over the world.

The course is ideal for experienced and qualified teachers wishing to enhance their career opportunities as Senior Teachers, ESP Instructors, Level Coordinators or Directors of Studies. The Diploma provides an excellent bridge for those who wish to pursue further academic qualifications related to TEFL at Masters level.

Changes in the DELTA Diploma
The new DELTA Diploma is turning modular, which allows candidates more flexibility to manage their development and the way the are assessed over time, allowing more options to accommodate professional and personal commitments.

Moreover, the DELTA is no longer limited to teaching adults!

To read more about information on the new modular scheme for the DELTA, please visit the Cambridge ESOL website and click here to find out about it.

Course Content:
 The course offers excellent grounding in the Theory and Practice of English Language Teaching with sessions on the Psychology of Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Course and Syllabus Design, Test Design, and Teaching Approaches. All the basic areas of a core methodology course are covered including work on specialist areas such as Using Literary Texts, teaching ESP groups, Teaching Young Learners, Teaching Adult Classes,  Computer Assisted Language Learning and many more. In addition, the course provides a solid foundation on all the language systems, including Grammar, Phonology, Discourse and Semantics.

Course Options:
After September 2008, CELT Athens will be offering

  1. A 30-week ( 8-month) course which prepares candidates for the written examination in June or December. Sessions are held twice a week on weekdays, (10:00 - 13:00).
  2. A 10 intensive weekends option. DELTA students come to CELT  once a month (10:00 -17:00 on Saturdays & Sundays). Weekend courses start in October and January.
  3. An intensive course completed over 7 weeks in the summer during July & August and during winter February & March.

This summer, CELT is offering an intensive summer course which is about to start on June 30th and will last for 8 weeks.

To Apply:
Applicants must have a minimum of 2 years of classroom teaching experience at a variety of levels. Please note that the DELTA is no longer a qualification for teaching adult classes. Your experience may have been with

  • young and very young learners

  • teenagers

  • young adults

  • adults

  • business/professional English groups

  • academic English groups

Applicants must already hold a first degree in English or have appropriate qualifications which allow them to teach in their country; in addition, they should have attended a teacher training programme such as a CELTA, COTE or a Certificate in TEFL.

Ideally you should:

  • have at least two years' full time (1,200 hours) experience of teaching English within the past five years
  • have a range of teaching experience in different contexts and at different levels
  • be a graduate and/or have an initial teaching qualification
  • have a standard of English which will enable you to teach at a range of levels.

Centres may still accept you if you do not strictly meet all of these requirements but can demonstrate that you would be likely to complete the course successfully. This is entirely at your centre's discretion.

    from http://www.cambridgeesol.org/exams/teaching-awards/delta.html

As noted, it is entirely at each centre's discretion to examine each candidate on an individual basis according to their background, experience, training and potential.

Selection is made on the basis of

  1. Classroom teaching experience as described above
  2. Educational background & evidence of TEFL training
  3. A Language and Methodology pre-course examination
  4. A personal interview with the Course Tutor.

Over and above the formal qualifications mentioned above, it must be understood that the DELTA course is challenging and candidates must be prepared to commit themselves to its demands and that it is not an initial training qualification where one learns how to write lesson plans for the first time or conduct drills for the first time. These skills are assumed to be already in place at the start of the course. . 

Assignments & Teaching Practice:

 Course participants must submit eight assignments during the course, some of which are linked to an observed lesson (5 observed teaching practices).

Six of these assignments are graded by the centre and moderated by Cambridge, and two are externally assessed (the Final Practical Teaching Assignment & the Extended Assignment, a Case study of an individual adult learner).

Ideally, course participants should be assessed teaching their own classes.

CELT Athens maintains two adult classes with students attending free of charge for the Teaching Practice needs of candidates who wish to take the Adult option and do not have their own classes.

CELT can also assist candidates who wish to do Teaching Practices with younger classes through its strong affiliation with a number of quality foreign language centres where younger learners and teenagers are taught English.

To find out all you need to know about the objectives of the course, requirements, assignments and details of each assignment, please download the Syllabus & Assessment Guidelines from the Cambridge ESOL website by clicking here. (in pdf. format - if you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here to download)

Links to postgraduate programmes in the UK and US
The Cambridge Diploma holder is considered as a holder of a Level 5 qualification. Αs such, s/he is entitled to apply for postgraduate training in British Colleges and Universities and is given credit or exemptions. For more information, please click here.

We have also been informed that St.Michael's College in Vermont, US, does the same. (this page will be updated as new information comes in)

For More:
For details regarding applications, content or timetable, please write to the Course Tutor:

Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens Director
77 Academias Street, 106 78 Athens, Greece

or send an e-mail to:  info@celt.edu.gr

N.B. If you are already familiar with previous versions of this Diploma (e.g. "the RSA DTEFLA OR DOTE) and are not sure of the exact changes, click here to read the Cambridge Diploma Update page.

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WHY CHOOSE
CELT TO DO
YOUR DELTA

CELT Athens trainees are supported in more than one ways both prior as well as while and after completing a course at CELT. Here are some of the ways:

LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP

 DELTA  candidates have free access to one of the best TEFL and Methodology  Libraries   including all the books they need for background as well as articles and journals

At CELT, they also  have access to:
  A very rich collection of
       sample lesson plans 
  Copies of keynote articles
       available for borrowing
  All the major Journals on
       Teaching, Language, 
       Linguistics &  Applied
       Linguistics

... and of course, all currently used EFL coursebooks &  supplementary books on the market.

WEBSITE SUPPORT 

DELTA candidates enjoy the support of a special password-protected website with:

 Sample lesson plans
 Sample assignments
  Reading lists & links
  Useful articles
  Free methodology book
      downloads
   Study Guides & notes
 Revision Pages
 Exam tips & practice

SELF ACCESS  PACKAGES

 DELTA  candidates receive specially designed preparation study packages both BEFORE the course starts as well as SELF ACCESS material for use  DURING and AFTER the course. Material is given both in print and CD-Rom format

N.B. CELT Athens has one of  the largest and best designed SELF ACCESS centres for teacher training with material collected and designed by experienced tutors on TEFL and Cambridge teacher training courses since 1989.

TUTORIAL TEAM

The CELT Athens tutorial team includes some of the best-known teacher trainers both in Greece as well as in other countries. Most are well-known authors with Macmillan ELT or Cambridge University Press. 


 

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