Friday, February 25, 2011

Marisa's thoughts

Really interesting post from Marisa Constantinides (she of the great blog...) today.  She runs a similar course to the one I'm thinking of, and has had trouble selling it... (see below)

 I have run several language awareness courses as well as CEELT prep
> courses and truly lament the exctinction of CEELT I & II which
> addressed exactly language teachers need in the classroom
>
> More recently we started to offer an online synchronous grammar for
> English Language Teachers course which you can read about here:
>
>
> One of the things which I have come to see, however, is that these
> courses are difficult to 'sell' as I have very often found that even
> if I suggest a course such as this to a teacher as a pre-CELTA prep
> course, they very often apply to another centre which accepts the same
> candidate without a murmur
>

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