Responsive and Reflective Teaching

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Emma Pratt for Koekoeā Studio

Senior Tutor, Course Writer and Online Workshop Presenter

Emma Pratt is a PhD candidate at Massey University, New Zealand, and an experienced teacher educator with over 20 years’ experience working in international education contexts across the UK, Spain, and New Zealand. Her current teaching focuses on preparing learners for UK English examinations, while her earlier work includes teaching and assessing academic writing for IELTS and Cambridge English. She is particularly interested in helping educators understand how teaching can be aligned with established frameworks without losing their individuality. Alongside this, her broader pedagogical interests explore relational and reflective approaches to learning, including how classroom environments, attention, and wellbeing shape the learning experience. She brings a collaborative, practical approach to workshops, grounded in shared experience and open dialogue.

Emma runs Koekoeā Studio, a creative studio that includes workshops including The Drawing Room in Cambridge, UK, that focuses on reflective drawing, as well as teacher training. She also continues to teach ESOL and academic preparation courses.

Emma has been designing online learning courses since 2013 and was, with Jamie King, a finalist in the ELTons 2014 for Innovation in Teaching

Contributing Experts

James Heal

Course Writer and Online Workshop Presenter

James Santana Heal is an exam preparation and teen expert! James has been teaching at the British Institute of Seville for the last 17 years, having taught previously in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Indonesia. He has taught all ages, but has a particular specialty: he's recognised by his teaching colleagues as being great with teens. He is interested in teacher training, encouraging students to become autonomous learners, and the use of student- generated materials. He has published several articles in the ETP magazine on differentiation and routines with young learners. He has a degree in Modern and Contemporary History, a CELTA and Delta.

Anna Hasper

Course Writer, Accredited Teacher Trainer and Assessor, and Online Workshop Presenter

Anna’s specialism is enabling primary and secondary school teachers with local constraints, such as limited resources, to become the best teacher they can by enhancing all students’ learning opportunities through engagement.

Her work as a Director of Studies and a teacher within the primary school system in New Zealand has given her an insight into curriculum development as well as setting up mentoring and CPD programmes for teachers. She’s passionate about working with young and very young learners (ages 3 to 13) and is involved in online tutoring of primary and secondary school teachers for the British Council and writing materials and social media resources for local state school teachers.

Qualifications

  • CELTA Certificate– Certificate in English Language Teacher to Adults (Wellington, New Zealand)
  • YL Extension to CELTA – Certificate in English Language Teaching to Young Learners (Casablanca, Morocco)
  • Delta – Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (ATTC, Sydney, Australia)
  • GradDip in Primary Education – Graduate Diploma in Primary Education (=PGCE) (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
  • MEd in Education in Applied Linguistics (Open University, UK)
  • Languages: English, Dutch (both native); Swedish, French, German (all upper intermediate); Spanish (low intermediate); Chinese and Arabic (beginner)

Accreditations

  • Cambridge English CELTA/Delta Tutor
  • Cambridge English CELTA/Delta Assessor

Jamie King

Course Writer, Accredited CELTA/Delta Teacher Trainer and Assessor

Jamie King is a Consultant Teacher Education Specialist, Accredited Teacher Trainer and Assessor, Course and Materials Designer.

He is an accredited University of Cambridge ESOL CELTA and Delta Tutor and Assessor and has extensive international experience teaching and training in 13 countries over the past 15 years (UAE, UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Iran, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Ethiopia, South Africa and the Ukraine). He has also worked as a Departmental Director, including: departmental management, product development/course design, product management, quality control, business development and staff development.

He has taught a full range of learners in a variety of teaching contexts, including: Adult Learners, Young Learners, General English, English for Academic Purposes, Exam Classes, mono and multilingual classes and has also worked as a Cambridge ESOL Examiner.

Jamie was a finalist in the ELTons 2014, along with Emma Pratt, for Innovation in Teaching Resources.

Qualifications

  • MA Applied Linguistics/TESOL — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • BA Modern Languages, Anthropology — Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • University of Cambridge CELTA

Accreditations

  • Cambridge English CELTA/Delta Tutor
  • Cambridge English CELTA/Delta Assessor

What the Experts are Saying

Teacher trainers and coursebook writers give us their feedback.

“The ELT Campus TEFL Preparation Course is definitely worth its modest price and the time one needs to invest in completing the course. Anyone planning to do a CELTA will greatly benefit from the basic orientation and understanding that the TEFL Prep Course provides. The videos offer a glimpse into what a 'real' ELT classroom is like, invaluable for those with no experience in particular.””

Steve Oakes, Co-Author of Speakout English Language Coursebook Series by Pearson and Teacher Trainer

“The course would be helpful for all applicants of CELTA-like TEFL courses including the Irish CELT because in my experience the greatest obstacle to confident, coherent lesson planning and successful course completion has been the difficulty in acquiring and maintaining a grasp of the central principles of modern language teaching.”

Tony Penston, Teacher Trainer and Author of "A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers" and "Essential Phonetics for English Language Teachers"

“Many trainees coming onto CELTA do not realise the intensity of the course which often negatively affects their overall performance. Now ELTCampus offers a solid preparation course that familiarises candidates with many of the concepts we go into and put into practice during the CELTA course. For some less confident candidates this course, which covers key concepts, essential terminology and provides an insight into communicative language teaching in practice, can make the difference between a fail, pass or a strong pass.”

Anna Hasper, Teacher Trainer, Course Materials Writer

“I wish there had been an orientation course available before I did the CELTA course! I was already a qualified teacher. I am a native speaker of English. I thought this should be the easiest topic to teach to date. It was the most difficult! I had no idea about terms like "graded language", "language skills", "TTT", or "choral drilling" etc. If you are thinking of doing any type of TEFL course , I would strongly recommend taking the "TEFL Preparation Course" with the very dedicated teaching team at ELTCampus.”

Marianne Jordan, Pronunciation Consultant and Content Writer for Pronunciation.Club

“The TEFL Preparation Course for CELTA by ELTCampus was shortlisted for the Innovation in Teacher Resources Award, 2016.”

ELTons 2016, Industry Award Nomination

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