Responsive, Reflective & Creative Learning: ELT Campus is becoming Open Skies!
Because time doesn’t stand still and we don’t either! We’re growing beyond English language teacher education to create a welcoming space for learning, language and creativity.
You’ll still find the trusted ELT Campus teacher-training courses here, alongside new opportunities for creative writing, storytelling and exploration.
Open Skies — a learning space by Koekoeā Studio.
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Open Skies Courses, Write & Create
Creative Writing
CourseEnhancing children's creative writing skills starts with noticing and opening ourselves up to creative thinking. A useful course for private school entry exams, focusing on expression, clarity, confidence in writing and living and being in the world!
£35
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
English Language Teacher Training Preparation Programme
BundleFive modules to prepare you for CELTA, Trinity CertTESOL and other initial English language teacher-training courses. Written by Jamie King and Emma Pratt. (17 + hours)
£85
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Grammar Refresher & Language Awareness
Course4.5 average rating (76 reviews)You know English - but can you explain how it works? Refresh essential grammar and build the language awareness you need to start thinking like an English teacher. Ideal for CELTA, Trinity CertTESOL and other initial teacher-training courses.
Free
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Teaching English from Young Learners to Teens: Super Bundle
BundleHow to teach young learners (4-9yrs) pre-teens (10-12yrs) and teens (13yrs +). Characteristics, brain development, classroom management, lesson planning, skills, tips, and ideas. Written by Anna Hasper, Emma Pratt & James Heal. (35 + hours)
£90
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Teaching English to Young Learners 9 Module Bundle
BundleWe look at teaching young learners (4-10 years): from characteristics and differences between YLs and the adult learners to classroom management, planning, skills, tips, and ideas. Written by Anna Hasper. (25+ hours )
£75
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
How to Prepare Students for IELTS
Course4.7 average rating (3 reviews)Becoming an IELTS teacher increases your employment prospects. Find out how to prepare students for their IELTS test with helpful teaching and assessment tips so your students reach their goals. Written by James Heal and Emma Pratt. (17+ hours)
£35
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Open Skies Courses
How to Prepare Candidates for Speaking Exams
CourseExam speaking is stressful. But speaking is fundamental and one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. In this course, James shares tips on preparing students for speaking exams and how to help them get the best results.
£19
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Open Skies Courses
Language Analysis & Language Practice
CourseHoe to analyse, clarify and practise language. Explore meaning, form and pronunciation (MFP), concept-checking and practical classroom techniques. Ideal preparation for CELTA, Trinity CertTESOL and other English-language teacher-training courses.
£45
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Open Skies Courses
Teacher Refresher: Remembering Learning Centred Teaching and Classroom Management
CourseComing beack to teaching after a break? In this module, we revise the concept of learner-centredness and the classroom and learner management that supports it.
£25
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Open Skies Courses
Teaching English to Pre-Teens and Teens
BundleIn this course, we first look at what is happening physically, emotionally, and socially with pre-teens and teens. Understanding our teens will inform the decisions we make as teachers to create optimum learning conditions.
£55
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Prepare for Your TEFL/TESOL Course: How to Analyse, Clarify and Practice New Language
CoursePrepare for your English teacher training course application and the course itself. Increase you language awareness and how to talk about language. Understand how teachers present and enable language practice. (4 hours). By Jamie King & Emma Pratt.
£25
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Storytelling and English Language Teaching to Young Learners
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)For anyone teaching English to children wanting to understand, ideas to use stories and storytelling in their lessons effectively, including film, picturebook, art, illustration, and drama. Written by Anna Hasper and Emma Pratt. (8 hours)
£19
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Teaching Pre-Teens & Teens : Understanding the Mind, Mental Health, Brain Development, and Impacts on Learner and Classroom Management
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)We look at what makes 10-16 year-olds tick. Understanding brain development, and our mental and emotional wellbeing in adolescence will inform our management, relationships, and teaching decisions. Written by Emma Pratt and James Heal. (4 hours)
£27
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
The Characteristics of Young Learners
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)What is are young learners like? In this short course, we explore our beliefs and expectations regarding children, and compare that to key research into child development in relation to their learning. (3+ hours)
£15
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Open Skies Courses, Teach English
Teaching Pre-Teens & Teens : Teaching the Language Skills
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Speaking, listening, reading, writing: the skills we aim to develop in our students in language learning. We analyse the relevant integrated skills needed at this age, and activities we can try in our classrooms. (5 hours)
£30
Founder
Emma Pratt for Koekoeā Studio
Senior Tutor, Course Writer and Workshop Presenter
[email protected]Emma Pratt is a PhD candidate at Massey University, New Zealand, an artist, writer and an experienced teacher educator with over 20 years’ experience working in international education contexts across the UK, Spain, and New Zealand. Her current language teaching focuses on preparing learners for UK English examination and creative writing, 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 that focus on reflective drawing, creative writing for young learners, graphic storytelling and comic for adults, 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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