We were warned; they were right. Halfway through CELTA, we concede that the training is as intense as the ILA school administration said it would be. With lesson planning, class material preparation, teaching practice, assignment completion, classroom sessions and study time, we’re putting in solid 15+ hour week days—and time on Saturday/Sunday, too. We wake up 6:30 a.m., have breakfast (sometimes), go to school until 5:30 p.m., and then spend the entire evening doing the above mentioned tasks until midnight, sometimes later, just to keep up with all the work. We have assessed teaching practice every other day, for which you can receive a “not to standard,” “to standard,” or “above standard.” There are 15 trainees that have been split into three groups, and we are in different groups. We don’t teach on the same days,
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