the course I had an outstanding experience on this CELTA course. It was intensive, challenging, and one of the most rewarding professional development experiences of my career. Every teaching practice, assignment, and input session helped me become a more reflective, student-centred, and confident teacher. The course was extremely well organised, and the quality of the training exceeded my expectations. A special thank you goes to my tutors, Zahra and Figen. Their professionalism, patience, encouragement, and incredibly detailed feedback made a huge difference to my development. They always believed in us, supported us through every challenge, and created a positive learning environment where we felt comfortable asking questions and learning from our mistakes. Their guidance transformed the way I plan and teach lessons. I would also like to thank Mehdi for his excellent input sessions. They were engaging, practical, and full of useful ideas that I could immediately apply in my teaching. His sessions made complex concepts easy to understand and enriched the whole course experience.

My main difficulty with the course was that much of Module Three felt like a guessing game. I often felt that candidates were expected to work out complex assignment requirements independently from written instructions rather than being guided through them. As teachers, we are trained to make difficult concepts accessible to learners, explain expectations clearly, and support understanding before expecting independent performance. For this reason, I found it surprising that there were no structured seminars or workshops explaining what needs analysis, diagnostic testing, learning priorities, and assignment expectations should actually look like in practice. Unfortunately, I only felt that I fully understood what was expected after approximately four months on the course, leaving me with only about one month to complete and finalise the assignment. Personally, I learn much more effectively through listening, discussion, examples and guided explanation than through reading large amounts of written guidance. Looking back, I still wonder why no introductory seminars or recorded workshops were organised to help candidates understand the assignment requirements from the beginning.

Good communication between tutors and tutees. My emails were always promptly answered. Tutors were almost always available which for a course this intense is very important. A good experience that I would be happy to recommend to others.