Thread: Different types of DELTA?

Worthless? How so?

Are you trolling as your signature suggests or ...

Maybe PM me if you are coy.

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The MODs may object to "naming/ shaming".

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Particularly when it's an Ajarn sponsor.

Delta can open doors to higher salaries, I wouln't call more baht in my pocket worthless.

Such as? Where are the best paid jobs? I always hear about these mythical institutes and teachers walking away with 100K a month - but rarely do I see this sort of thing for myself.

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Is there anywhere else to do the DELTA? I always find the schedule for the Distance DELTA to be unhelpful - it's never quite the right time.

I need to get started on it but no access to the reading list. How have other people managed?

Contact ih for a reading list. Or google it, lots on line. The British council run the course, maybe contact them?

Originally Posted by exprat

I need to get started on it but no access to the reading list

Reading the practice of English language teaching by Jeremy Harmer and learning teaching by Jim Scrivener cover to cover would be a good start. Useful for all three modules.

or

Get started on module 3. For that you have to design a course for a certain group of learners. So do some background reading on an area that interests you. EAP would be a good one to choose.

I have the reading list but how am I gonna cart all those books around, is what I really mean??

I would have to get them delivered to Thailand ...

You just want to jump through the hoops of getting the qualification but you're worrying about getting the books before the course?

Something odd there...

Perhaps, just perhaps, the place that you do the course will have a library with the books that you need. It's a million to one shot but it might just be true.

The BC in Bangkok?

Originally Posted by exprat

The BC in Bangkok?

Have you ever been in a decent language school that didn't have a collection of books?

Have you ever been in a decent language school?

FYI, I contacted the BC many months ago to ask whether they had books from the DELTA list and the answer was 'no'. Maybe I shouldn't have asked a Thai person.

TEFL teachers are a pathetic breed.
Trying to play the who's got the bigger dick game with language schools

Yes, I have been in decent language schools but I would actually be overjoyed if I never had to teach TEFL again.
I am making £1000 a week working in a university in the UK and all I've got is a BA so I guess that makes you the

I can pat my head with one hand while rubbing my stomach with the other, simultaneously.

I am also gifted at alcohol drinking.