The CELTA course at the CLM

While the syllabus is common to all centres offering a CELTA course, each centre is allowed freedom to programme the course as they see fit. The CLM CELTA course has been developed to ensure that trainees have the opportunity to do the course in optimum conditions, balancing the requirements to pass the course with the trainees' development as an effective teacher.

The course consists of a minimum of 120 contact hours spread over four weeks. In addition trainees are expected to do a further 80 hours reading, research, assignment writing and lesson planning. The contact hours on the course start at 10.00am and finish at 7.00pm with a break for lunch. The structure of the course is outlined in the following sections.