Our Trainees
 Most everything about the CELTA and BKC-IH Moscow was how I expected it to be: the staff was super friendly and helpful and did everything they could do to make the trainees comfortable and happy upon arrival to Moscow and throughout the course. The course itself was intense as promised, and there is really nothing you can do to prepare yourself for standing up in front of the teaching practice group on the first day of CELTA! The one thing I didn’t really expect about the course was the trainers’ level of knowledge and experience which they brought to the course. Their dedication to taking twelve seemingly normal folk and preparing them for classroom teaching made me glad that I had chosen to come to Moscow after all.
The course is incredibly well designed in that it is a healthy balance of inputed information about teaching along with practical experience with live victims, I mean, students! The teaching practice was really a time when you could use the strategies the trainers spent so much effort trying to get across to you and actually see them either fail miserably because you did something wrong or experience the elated feeling of "WOW! That worked!" when you executed something correctly. This was an invaluable part of the training because being able to take notes on a new topic and being able to implement it into a lesson are two very different things. The balance created by having both these aspects of teaching incorporated into one teacher training course is really what makes the CELTA unique. The CELTA course at BKC-IH Moscow is a good place to begin a career in English language instruction or, if you are already a teacher, to further your professional development and open new doors of opportunity.
Julia MacGregor — CELTA Course, September 2005
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