Today's the first day of the CELTA course
and now it's time to get back to work and start studying
and learning and I'm really looking forward to it.
The CELTA course is a course for teachers
and it basically gives you the opportunity
to learn theoretical and practical approaches to teaching.
The CELTA course, it's well known in Brazil
and I believe it's also well known around the world.
It's a great experience because you get feedback from peers,
from the tutors and then you can improve your techniques.
I decided to take the intensive course
because it's my vacation time.
So I decided to study and invest in my future
and my teaching practices.
I just had my first lesson.
I'm super excited, it was really interesting
because we've learned how the course is going to work
throughout this whole four week intensive course.
Now I'm heading to the library.
So far we have talked to each other, we learnt about the course,
the syllabus and how intensive it's going to be for the next few weeks.
The first week has been great.
I'm feeling a little bit more confident now
that it's my third teaching practice today.
I've been learning a lot,
our tutors teach us in a way that
we basically understand how a lesson could be effective,
and how to make an interactive lesson with students.
We have a teaching practice group
and in this group there are five teachers.
We share our knowledge, our experience.
Hi everyone, this is me and Jack
and we want to share a little bit about how we're feeling
because we're halfway through the course.
How are you feeling Jack?
Good.
Yeah it's great fun, it's quite a lot of work
and it's quite intense
but everyone is really supportive
and you get to know all the other trainees really well
and yeah it's good fun, very rewarding.
You're getting lots and lots of feedback
so you're always integrating new ideas
and new skills into your lessons
which is very satisfying.
This is the end of the week and we've just finished
the teaching practice four.
We could see our progress.
The way we are applying the techniques has improved overall
and we're feeling more confident
about the things that we're teaching
and the techniques we're applying.
I would say that this is the first time
that I feel that I really want to be a teacher
for the rest of my life as a career.
The lesson today will be about things we do in our free time.
It's a pre-intermediate lesson.
This is my teaching practice number seven.
So I've adapted according to my tutor's feedback.
Students had the opportunity to learn for the first hour
and then we played some games.
So it was really interesting to think about the lesson aims,
how we can help students,
how we can make the lessons more engaging.
The group as well like we were always discussing the lessons,
how we're going to make it very engaging and fun.
I have been studying with a group
and we have different backgrounds,
we can share our ideas and learn from each other
and also we can notice each other's progress
throughout the course.
This was one of the things that I would say that
is amazing about this course.
This is the end of the third week of the CELTA course
and I've been doing so many assignments.
We have the theory, we learn the theory
but also we learn how to apply it.
Also seeing my peers, observing my peers as well because
even though we have some different teaching approaches
I can see that we can make the lesson flow.
It's been only four weeks but it seems so much more.
We've learned a lot from our tutors, from our peers
and it's been a great experience.
I've also finished my assignments
and I got the results.
So I'm really happy about that.
I'm really glad that I took the decision of coming here,
meeting new people,
learning from other cultures
and I think this is what creates a very powerful moment for learning.
Today was my last day of the CELTA course
and it was amazing.
It's really rewarding to see all of our progress
and the feedback from the tutors.
I can't wait to start work and apply all of this.
Seeing my students reactions, hear it was very positive.
I really expect to have this nice experience when I start teaching.
It's a really, really good course
and it's been definitely the time of my life.