Teaching our Teachers

Did you know that at LAL Torbay we also train people to teach English? Our Cambridge CELTA courses have had a 100% pass rate since 1999.

We have also been training people to become teacher trainers since 2000.

The guidelines set out by Cambridge ESOL, and closely followed by LAL Torbay, ensure that CELTA teachers are given thorough knowledge of teaching practices, theories and methodologies. The CELTA teachers are observed teaching classes of students from the school and continually assessed on all of their lesson plans, teaching and written assignments.

As part of the requirements for British Council accreditation, all teachers in our school must be CELTA qualified, and by employing those teachers who have studied on one of our courses we have the advantage of having trained them ourselves and have knowledge of their teaching style and skills.

Lucy Gubbin and her team have, between them, a combined total of more than one hundred years’ experience of teaching English to foreign students. This experience is reflected in the continued success of courses run at our school.

The teachers who have gained the CELTA and DELTA qualifications from our school have gone on to teach in schools locally and abroad, as well as moving up to management positions and even setting up their own language schools. [AM]