Accredited CLT course, Communicative Language Teaching

Course only

• Make a one-time payment of €899
• or pay a €325 deposit then a €574 final payment

1. Six-week Trinity CertPT CLT course
2. Trinity CertPT certificate
3. Worldwide, lifetime and proactive job placement

Road2Spain – course + one-year Spanish and Student Visa programme

• €2,049 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,150 € Barcelona Spanish Programme
• €2,184 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,285 € Madrid Spanish Programme
• €2,377 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,478 € Malaga Spanish Programme
• €2,463 = 899 € CertPT course + 1,564 € San Sebastian Spanish Programme

1. Six-week Trinity CertPT CLT course
2. Trinity CertPT certificate
3. Worldwide, lifetime and proactive job placement
4. One-year Spanish student visa
5. One-year Spanish course at a Cervantes Institute school

IMPORTANT

1. You choose your start date and pay for your one-year Spanish and Student Visa programme AFTER finishing the course.
2. The Cervantes Institute Spanish school sends you the student visa documents after receiving your payment.

1 – Fill out and send your application

1. Please go to our application web page.
2. Follow the four easy steps in the application process where you will enter your email address, choose the course you would like to take, select your preferred course date, and tell us a little about yourself: your education, your interests, your expectations and your reasons for wanting to take the course.
3. If your application is accepted, we will arrange an admission interview with you.

2 – Attend your admission interview

IMPORTANT: This course is a UK government-regulated qualification, so it must meet official quality controls, one of which is the admission interview. Trinity College London will not allow you to take the course if you do not take and pass the admission interview.

1. We will arrange an admission interview time with you.
2. You can choose ZOOM, WhatsApp, Skype or Viber for the admission interview.
3. The interview has a set of standard questions and information we must tell you before you attend.
4. If you pass the interview, you receive an acceptance letter and instructions for enrolling on the course.

3 – Enrol

1. When you get your acceptance letter, we strongly recommend sending your deposit to guarantee your course place. We allocate course places on a first-come, first-served basis.
2. When you have guaranteed your place, your dedicated student adviser will give you all the information you need for the course and travel (if you are travelling).

NOTE: Your admission’s interview file is registered with Trinity College London and audited by the Trinity College London appointed external course moderator at the end of your course.

This course prepares you to create, use and teach CLT material to match your students’ learning needs.

The course also includes lifetime, worldwide job placement that helps you get an English teaching job whenever you want.

When you graduate, you will:

1. get a Trinity CertPT, one of the world’s two leading accredited teaching certificates;
2. gain CLT skills for use in a single language or multi-lingual classroom;
3. be able to find, create and adapt CLT teaching material;
4. know how to determine what material enganges your students;
5. know how to interact with CLT learners;
6. know how to manage a CLT classroom;
7. reflect on your material and performance enabling your continued growth as a CLT teacher.

The course has four foundation tasks. You must pass all of them to pass the course.

Task 1 – Resource evaluation

Produce an evaluation of a printed or online CLT teaching/training resource:

1. evaluate the resource through the lens of your professional practice;
2. assess the resource in terms of relevance for a specific learning group;
3. make explicit links to your teaching/training context;
4. demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
5. include a fully referenced copy of the resource in the appendices.

Task 2 – Rationale for an adapted resource

Produce a rationale for a printed or online CLT teaching/training resource you have adapted to be suitable for at least 15 minutes’ teaching/training for a specified learner/learner group:

1. explain the reasons for the adaptations, making direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
2. demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
3. include a fully referenced copy of the adapted resource and the original resource in the appendices.

Task 3 – Rationale for an original resource

Produce a rationale for an original CLT resource you have created that is suitable for at least 15 minutes’ teaching/training for a specified learner/learner group:

1. make direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
2. explain why the resource has been created in the way it has;
3. demonstrate insight into broader educational practices and the impact it has had on your professional practice;
4. include a copy of the resource in the appendices.

Task 4 – Reflection on resource use

Write a reflection on the use of either the adapted CLT resource (from task 2) or the CLT original resource (from task 3):

1. identify strengths and weaknesses of the resource, with direct reference to the specified learner/learner group;
2. suggest solutions for the identified deficiencies and, where appropriate, for improving the strengths;
3. include evidence of learner, peer and manager feedback on the use of the resource and an example of the feedback.

Visit the CertPT syllabus, CPD for practising teachers page.