I am amazed at how much I learnt about ESL teaching practices in such a short space of time. This is due to the quality of the teachers, and the course's expert design and execution. Consummate professionals, Dave and Liz provided trainees with a jam-packed, fulfilling, rewarding, demanding program. Their expectations were high and rightly so. A moment's distraction meant missing something vital! Dave and Liz were able to handle with great diplomacy, kindness and professionalism a wide range of personality types in the classroom. This in itself was a great study of how to handle students. About my experience on the course: the intensity of the study requires students be resilient, focused and strong. A lot of the experience was interestingly about living in the moment, prioritising, and being constantly mindful. The necessity to draw upon deep personal resources under such pressure engenders confidence and is certainly character building. I gained the most from the course by forgetting absolutely everything else for four weeks and giving the study (in school and every single hour out of school) my absolute attention and focus. I surprised myself by what I could do at the end of the program and can't wait to put it into practice. I am very grateful to Dave and Liz for the their many years of experience, and the knowledge, support and advice given so generously throughout the amazing CELTA experience!

I found the course very worthwhile, although very rushed, especially the second week!! It was a real effort to get assignments done in between planning for the next teaching practice. However, the idea of 'hands-on, thrown in at the deep end, sink or swim' teaching practice seemed to be successful. We all did get our assignments done by the end of the fourth week. I would recommend this course for all aspiring teachers and for experienced teachers. It is certainly more practical than the Diploma of Education I dropped out of! I would recommend students have their laptops handy for class to work on assignments during lunch hours. I found our teachers, Dave Fox and Liz Stephan, to be very encouraging and very professional, with a great rapport with us as students.

It was very intensive but the professionalism of the course tutors made it all possible.

Super hectic course, but well-supported by tutors.

It was excellent, Dave and his team are wonderful. I couldn't chosen a better course and provider than Lexis.