I am writing this shortly after completing my training as a CELTA trainer. The course is famously intensive for trainees, but it is equally demanding for those learning to train them. The combination of procedural knowledge, observation, assessment decisions and emotional labour is such that, once the course finishes, it can take weeks simply to process what has been learnt. There are many valuable lessons to be drawn from those content-rich 120 hours, but in this article I would like to focus on one in particular: the role of failure in learning, and what trainer training taught me about . . .
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