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50% Off Foreign Language Courses in the UK for Cactus Teachers!

*This discount is available to all Cactus teachers, who are currently teaching or have taught for Cactus in the past 12 months. It applies to all domestic evening & part-time group language courses, which have already met the minimum number of students required to run the course. Should the minimum number of students required not be met on your chosen course, you will be offered an alternative course or a full refund. To claim your discount, please call your local Cactus office, this discount is not available online.

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 language 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:

Language Trainer Application Form

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

Hilary Dinham - Piccadilly French Lower Intermediate

Language Teacher Selection

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

Language Teacher selection Process

Support for Language 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 Language Teacher Development

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

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As part of our ongoing commitment to teacher development, we provide Teacher Training Days for qualified and experienced teachers, so they can keep up to date with current techniques and ideas in modern language training. Watch this space for future opportunities!

Japanese - a lesson in immersion Sat 21 Jan 2012 in London

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 Language Teacher Job Opportunities

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Language Teachers on LinkedIn

Working for Cactus as a teacher, you can connect with other teachers on LinkedIn.

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Cactus Teacher Recruitment Day

Our popular Teacher Recruitment Days present what it means to be a Cactus teacher and how you can teach languages for us.

We welcome trained, experienced language teachers looking for part-time teaching work for evening courses and/or business training.

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