Should I be scared of teaching one-to-one? When a new teacher starts teaching, they sometimes get asked to teach English one-to-one and...

Teaching English in the UK Many people travel to the UK to improve their English language skills. They do this for a variety of reasons....

DC Teacher Training are pleased to announce our online CELTA course dates for 2025. We have scheduled eighteen courses for next year,...

Teaching English is different from teaching maths or teaching geography because English is a language and this means that practising...

Why teach English in Ireland? Ireland is a famously friendly country, with a welcoming social culture that newcomers often love. Many...

Language Skills Related Tasks is often set around the mid-point of a CELTA course. Like all CELTA written assignments, it is 750 to 1000...

Navigating the journey of teaching English abroad as a single parent Single parents sometimes think that they need to limit their dreams...

This week, we have a guest post from one of our CELTA tutors, David Tipple. Read on to find out more about his life teaching English both...

At the fringes of both Europe and Asia, Turkey, or Turkiye, is a beautiful and exciting country with a lot to offer English teachers...

New teachers can sometimes cling to a plan, and there are good reasons for this. A lesson plan is your roadmap. The final stage of a...

Some people worry that moving abroad and teaching English is a young person's game and that they might have missed their chance by...

Why Colombia? From the peaks of the Andes to the Amazon rainforest, from the Caribbean coast to large modern cities, to the desert to the...

By the end of a CELTA course, you should be very good at planning an individual lesson, but you might feel intimidated at the idea of...

Why Choose Costa Rica? Costa Rica is one of the most attractive destinations for those looking for opportunities to teach English in...

Bournemouth is most famous for its beaches, boasting some of the warmest waters in the UK. While many of the holiday towns on the south...

In a dream world, every student in a class is exactly the same level - they all know the same words as each other, they are all equally...

We all have two sides - a logical brain telling us that we need to set money aside for a rainy day, that we need to save for a mortgage...

Brighton is one of the most popular destinations for tourists visiting the UK, and it's easy to see why. Brighton is a young, fun...

New teachers can be intimidated by advanced students - "What if they know more about grammar than I do?" "What if they correct my...

For many new trainee teachers on their first CELTA course, one of the first and most frequent action points that they get told to work on...