What inspired you to work for Teaching House?
After completing my CELTA certification course, I learned about an open position in the Enrollment and Registration department. I felt this position would provide me with an opportunity to learn the business side of running a teacher training school and was excited to learn it.
French ESL students watching the World Cup Soccer game at school!
Describe a typical day at work as the Local Center Administrator.
Providing customer service via phone, email, online, or in person to interested candidates in taking the CELTA Certification Course. Reviewing applications, registration and enrollment of candidates, payment processing, pre-course assistance, job placement assistance, and center supervision.
Why do you do what you do?
I feel like I am the go-to person for our center. I love working with people and providing the best service I can. It is very rewarding to see the happy faces of our CELTA graduates at the end of the course. I feel like I have been on the journey with them from start to finish.
How do you use your education and international background in your current role?
With my diverse education background and having lived in several different countries, I find that being interested and curious in people is the best way to connect with students.
Happy ESL students at end of course party!
What are some current projects you are working on?
We are working on tracking job placement data for our CELTA graduates. This would be beneficial to us as an organization and also to share with future candidates. Getting a job as an ESL teacher is on top of the list for anyone applying to take the CELTA course.
What makes Teaching House special?
Ensuring the high standards of education that are set by Cambridge University, all Teaching House CELTA courses have a maximum of only six trainees working with each trainer. To fulfill this trainer/trainee ratio, the Teaching House staff includes over 20 Cambridge University-approved teacher trainers as well as a strong support team based at our headquarters in New York.
Why should someone choose Teaching House over competitors?
Teaching House is now the largest provider of Cambridge CELTA courses in the world. With the aim to expand quality English-language teacher training in the United States and around the world.
What is Teaching House's mission and how do you continue to work toward it?
To provide the best English-language teacher training course by having an extensive schedule of CELTA courses in various formats to fit the need of the candidates. Additionally, Teaching House is committed to assist graduates to find the best available jobs both in the USA and abroad, by maintaining a host of platforms to help TH graduates throughout their teaching career.
Nahal with CELTA Trainers on graduation day.
What do you hope participants take away from Teaching House programs?
I hope our participants take away the skills and confidence they need to become an ESL Teacher, and for them to feel ready to start teaching.
Why is it important for people to travel abroad and experience new cultures?
Traveling abroad and experiencing new cultures first hand is the best way to learn, appreciate, and have understanding for how unique and special people around the world are. I feel with an open mind and through traveling abroad, one's perspective grows and we become more tolerant, accepting, and appreciative of each other as humans.
Why do you think learning a new language is important?
It gets one to walk in the shoes of new language students and be able to relate and better serve them once they have become a language teacher.
What advice do you have for individuals thinking about going abroad?
Absolutely go for it!
Graduation day for CELTA trainees at Teaching House Philadelphia.
What does meaningful travel mean to you?
To be welcomed by the host country with an open mind and be able to feel safe to teach and to learn at the same time.
What does ethical global engagement mean to you?
To look at the globe as a whole and not individual countries, with the intention to help elevate growth through exchange of ideas, education, participation, and celebration.
