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Cactus Teachers

All Cactus teachers are native speaker or native speaker level with specialist language teaching qualifications and experience in teaching modern languages.

Many of them have also attended our Cactus Professional Development Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching to Adults and they are regularly observed so we can be sure they come up to Cactus standards.

Cactus are actively recruiting more teachers!

If you are a qualified language teacher with minimum teaching experience of at least 1 year and the necessary work papers and would like to work for Cactus Language Training, please complete our:

Trainer Application Form

“Very friendly well run courses with very proficient teachers and small classes”

Hilary Dinham - Piccadilly French Lower Intermediate

Teacher Selection

All teachers are carefully selected with special attention paid to their qualifications, experience and references.

Teacher selection Process

Support for Teachers

Once a class starts, there is continuous contact between the teacher and Academic Director of Studies. There is always full support for the teacher, both academic and operational.

Cactus Teacher Development

We believe that providing developmental input and support is key to the success of our work with teachers.

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Teacher Training Courses

Cactus runs teacher training courses for people without experience who want to become language teachers, and professional development courses for language teachers with some experience.

Cactus Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching to Adults

Cactus Professional Development Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching to Adults

Current Opportunities

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Cactus Teacher Recruitment Day

Find out what it means to be a Cactus teacher and how you can teach languages for us!

When: Saturday 18th September 2010
Where: St Giles International, 154 Southampton Row, London WC1 B5JX

Presentations “Introduction to Cactus” will be held at 11am and at 2pm.

If you are a trained, experienced language teacher looking for part-time teaching work for evening courses and/or business training, please come along and meet our Director of Studies Rod Mitchell, and our Operations Manager Leticia Gracia.

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