Our new DELTA Module Two fully online course is from 10 May to 29 November 2024, with live input sessions every Friday from 14:00 to 20:00 UTC. 

DELTA Module Two is part of the Cambridge DELTA Diploma, the most prestigious advanced qualification for English teachers in the world!

This is a part-time, relaxed-pace course, which will enable you to complete your assessment by December 2024. Like all of our online programmes, our synchronous DELTA Module Two interactive online course is based on synchronous interaction: you meet the tutors and other trainees online and interact with them live; you work on tasks together, ask questions live, discuss issues live.

Teaching practice can also take place in an online live classroom or in a face to face classroom if you are in or near Athens or if you can livestream your lesson to your tutor.

The ACE TEFL DELTA Advantage

– An internationally recognised TEFL Diploma, recognised as an advanced teaching qualification globally.

– A team of tutors who have been working together for years and have developed together a DELTA course that covers the Cambridge DELTA syllabus comprehensively and in detail.

– Lots of personal support for all our trainees, who get a minimum of ten hours of one-to-one consultation time with their tutor during the course.

– The opportunity to do your assessed teaching practice either with your own class or with one of our classes, online or face to face, wherever in the world you may be. Cambridge now allows teaching practice observation to take place remotely, which means that your tutors will be the ones to observe and support you, even if you are on a different continent!

– Lifelong access to electronic resources and an extensive online library that can help you complete your assignments successfully and learn more about teaching during and after the course.

– Extremely reasonable tuition fees, which can be paid in up to five monthly instalments..

Find out more about our DELTA Module Two online course and download an application form here. Registration has started!

A new DELTA Module Two online course is about to start at ACE TEFL on Thursday, 15th February.

This is a part-time, relaxed-pace course, which will enable you to complete your assessment by October 2024. The course is fully online, with live input sessions every Thursday morning.

DELTA Module Two is part of the Cambridge DELTA Diploma, the most prestigious advanced qualification for English teachers in the world!

The DELTA consists of three Modules, which can be taken in any order. Many teachers choose to start with Module Two because of the practical, classroom-based nature of this course.

The ACE TEFL DELTA Advantage

– An internationally recognised TEFL Diploma, recognised as an advanced teaching qualification globally.

– A team of tutors who have been working together for years and have developed together a DELTA course that covers the Cambridge DELTA syllabus comprehensively and in detail.

– Lots of personal support for all our trainees, who get a minimum of ten hours of one-to-one consultation time with their tutor during the course.

– The opportunity to do your assessed teaching practice either with your own class or with one of our classes, online or face to face, wherever in the world you may be. Cambridge now allows teaching practice observation to take place remotely, which means that your tutors will be the ones to observe and support you, even if you are on a different continent!

– Lifelong access to electronic resources and an extensive online library that can help you complete your assignments successfully and learn more about teaching during and after the course.

– Extremely reasonable tuition fees, which can be paid in up to five monthly instalments..

Find out more about our DELTA Module Two online course and download an application form here. There are stlll a couple of places left on the February course!

The CELTA on Saturdays online is a popular, part-time, relaxed-pace CELTA course, specially designed for busy teachers. Our next Saturdays course starts on March 26 and finishes in September, with a three-week break in August.

Why CELTA on Saturdays?

Here are some of the reasons why teachers from all over the world join our CELTA on Saturdays:

– They have a full teaching schedule during the week and could not have done it any other day or time.

– They prefer a more relaxed pace or like to take their time to study and prepare.

– They need to have their CELTA in their hands in time for the new academic year, but aren’t prepared to sacrifice their summer holiday by doing an intensive summer course.

The ACE TEFL CELTA Advantage

The CELTA on Saturdays may be more relaxed in terms of the pace and intensity of the course, but it still offers the same advantages as any other CELTA course at ACE TEFL:

– An internationally recognised TEFL certificate, which is considered the global gold standard for English language teacher training.

– A team of tutors who have been working together for years and have developed together a CELTA course that can guarantee you will do well: more than half of our CELTA trainees get an A or a B.

– Lifelong access to electronic resources and an online library that can help you learn more about teaching during and after the course.

– Extremely reasonable tuition fees, which can be paid in up to four monthly instalments.

Find out more about our CELTA on Saturdays course and download an application form here. Apply now to make sure you can get a place!

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ACE TEFL MasterClass is a series of online workshops for experienced teachers. 

Each three-hour workshop focuses on a specialist topic that experienced teachers may find useful. The participation fee for each workshop is €28.

Our MasterClass workshops schedule for the February – March period is as follows:

Teaching grammar creatively
Sunday, February 4th 2024, 10:00 – 13:00 or 18:00 – 21:00 EET

Using AI for reading and writing skills development
Sunday, February 18th 2024, 10:00 – 13:00 or 18:00 – 21:00 EET

Creative vocabulary teaching techniques
Sunday, March 3rd 2024, 10:00 – 13:00 or 18:00 – 21:00 EET

Motivating and supporting students in exam classes
Sunday, March 20th 2024, 10:00 – 13:00 or 18:00 – 21:00 EET

For more information and to sign up for any of these workshops, please click here.

Are you based in or near Athens? Then join ACE TEFL’s current students, graduates and tutors on Sunday, January 28th. We are celebrating our 3rd birthday just a day before our new courses for 2024 begin!

Current students, graduates and tutors will all be there from 7 pm onwards.

RSVP: hello@acetefl.com

ACE TEFL is celebrating its third birthday this January. We would like to take this opportunity to show our appreciation to all the teachers who have supported us!

We would like to invite you all to a free teacher development event on Sunday, 28 January, consisting of two webinars on the topic of class management.

11:00 – 12:00 (EET): Perfectly in Tune with your Class!

This webinar focuses on building and maintaining rapport in the face to face as well as in the online classroom environment. Alexander Makarios will explore ways in which we can create the best classroom conditions for our students to learn, respond to challenges, and hopefully thrive; not just for one stand-alone lesson, but for a whole course, and beyond.

12.15 – 13:15 (EET): Speak now of forever hold your peace?

This webinar focuses on how to manage teacher talk in the classroom. George Vassilakis will review the types and purposes of teacher talk, discuss what quality teacher talk consists of and offer a range of practical suggestions for maximising learner participation and controlling teacher talk while at the same time not depriving learners of useful teacher input.

To participate in either or both of these webinars, please register here. All registered participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

If you are in or near Athens, don’t miss the 2023 Foreign Languages Forum at the Royal Olympic Hotel next weekend, 2-3 September. Please visit this page to register and download the programme.

The ACE TEFL team will be there. Visit our stand and find out about our forthcoming courses and workshops.

George will also be giving a keynote presentation at the Forum on Saturday, September 2nd

BuzzWords, Myths and Realities in ELT

Saturday, 2 September 2023, 14:35-15:20

Don’t use the learners’ native language in class! Don’t correct mistakes during learner interaction!Limit teacher talk – teacher talk is bad! Don’t explain, demonstrate!M ake your activities communicative!

Most teachers wouldn’t even dream of questioning suggestions like the above. In the last thirty years or so they have become doctrines of ELT practice, which every teacher feels they should follow if they want their lessons to be effective. And yet, in reality it is still not clear how these recommendations affect learning and there is little evidence that doing these things will, indeed, benefit the learners. Perhaps it is time to re-examine these beliefs and their consequences, so that we can make informed decisions about teaching and learning procedures rather than allow our teaching practice to be shaped merely by doctrine and prejudice?

Registration is now open for our part-time CELTA courses starting in September. At ACE TEFL, you can do your CELTA face to face (if you are in or near Athens) or online (from anywhere in the world) and get the same, internationally recognised Cambridge CELTA certificate, which has come to be known as the gold standard in English language teacher education.

Our CELTA Online course can be taken in three months (September – December) or in six months (September – March):

The three-month course starts on September 18th and ends on December 15th. Attendance is every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9:00 to 13:00 EET (Athens Greece time). Please find more details of this course here.

The more relaxed six-month course starts on September 23rd and ends on March 16th. Attendance is once a week, every Saturday, from 9:00 to 16:30 EET (Athens Greece time). Please find more details of this course here.

Our CELTA face to face course lasts for three months. It starts on September 18th and ends on December 15th. Attendance is every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 9:00 to 13:00 EET (Athens Greece time). Please find more details of this course here.

No matter what type of CELTA course you go for, you can expect the same unparallelled level of support that ACE TEFL is known for, which has led to our centre’s 100% success rate, with more than half of our candidates so far achieving a Grade A or Grade B.

Apply now to secure your place on one of our September courses!

If you have already completed a DELTA integrated or DELTA Module One course, or if you have studied for Module One on your own and would now like to concentrate on preparing for the exam and developing appropriate exam techniques, you may find our Module One exam prep short course useful.

The course focuses on the requirements of the exam task by task and paper by paper. It offers you guidance and practice in answering the different types of questions included in the DELTA Module One exam and includes four mock examinations, on which you will get individualised feedback from your tutor.

The course will run online, every Thursday, from September 14th to November 30th. Find out more here!

In the two years we have been running CELTA courses at ACE TEFL, we have trained over 200 teachers, all of whom successfully completed their CELTA course with amazing results: four out of ten of our past trainees got a Grade B, while two out of ten got a Grade A!

To give more teachers the chance to get this internationally recognised qualification, we are launching a scholarship competition: the winner will receive a 50% discount on the tuition fees of our intensive CELTA Online course in August 2023.

To enter the competition, please complete the quiz below by 12 pm on Sunday 30 July.

CLICK here to enter the competition.

Please check the terms and conditions below:

• Competition entries must be submitted using this form by 12:00 pm (midday) EEST on Sunday 30 July.
• Results will be announced on Monday 31 July.
• The prize is a 50% scholarship on the tuition fees for the ACE TEFL full time online CELTA course starting on 7 August 2023 and ending on 1 September 2023. Thus, the winner’s tuition fee will be 540 EUR and the total fee, including theCambridge assessment fee of 300 EUR, will be 840 EUR.
• The course runs every day (Monday to Friday) from 10 am to 6 pm EEST.
• The scholarship cannot be transferred to a different course. 
• The winner will be notified by ACE TEFL on Monday 31 July and, then, the winner must complete the application process by August 3rd. If the winner does not complete the application process by the stated date, ACE TEFL reserves the right to transfer the scholarship to a runner-up. 
• ACE TEFL will use the following criteria to judge entries: accuracy of language use; accuracy of answers; task achievement (relating to whether all questions have been answered as well as relevance of answers given).
• The judges’ decisions are final.