Cambridge TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test)
TKT is a series of internationally recognised modular teaching qualifications, which test your knowledge in a specific area of English language teaching. The qualifications are awarded by Cambridge English, part of the University of Cambridge. As such, they are highly respected across the world as international qualifications that prove your knowledge and skills for language-teaching. You can pursue TKT regardless of your background: Whether you are an experienced teacher or an aspiring teacher, the qualifications will enable you to gain recognition for both career advancement and new employment.
With TKT, you show employers that you:
- Are familiar with different teaching methodologies.
- Know how to use teaching resources effectively.
- Understand key aspects of lesson planning.
- Can use different classroom management methods for different needs.
Gateway Graduate School (GGS), in collaboration with our sister organisation Skills for Life, will provide training support and assessments for the first three modules of TKT. As such, our students can sit for the examinations in-house.
Duration of The Programme and Intakes
There will be three (3) intakes per year: February, July and October.
Delivery
Modes of Delivery: Face to face, Blended learning and Distance Learning
The Units (Modules) Offered
Overview of the Syllabus
This module tests candidates’ knowledge of terms and concepts common in English language teaching. It also focuses on the factors underpinning the learning of English and knowledge of the range and functions of the pedagogic choices the teacher has at their disposal to cater for these learning factors.
Assessments
A test lasting 1 hour and 20 minutes, for 80 questions consisting of objective tasks such as matching and multiple choice. Candidates indicate their answers by shading the correct boxes on their answer sheets. Candidates should use a pencil. Each question carries 1 mark.
Overview of the Syllabus
This module focuses on what teachers consider and do while planning their teaching of a lesson or series of lessons. Teaching in this context is intended also to refer to assessment. It focuses too on the linguistic and methodological reference resources that are available to guide teachers in their lesson planning as well as on the range and function of materials and teaching aids that teachers could consider making use of in their lessons. Knowledge of any particular book is not required.
Assessments
A test lasting 1 hour and 20 minutes, for 80 questions consisting of objective tasks such as matching and multiple choice. Candidates indicate their answers by shading the correct boxes on their answer sheets. Candidates should use a pencil. Each question carries 1 mark.
Overview of the Syllabus
TThis module tests candidates’ knowledge of what happens in the classroom in terms of the language used by the teacher or learners, the roles the teacher can fulfil and the ways in which the teacher can manage and exploit classroom events and interaction.
Assessments
A test lasting 1 hour and 20 minutes, for 80 questions consisting of objective tasks such as matching and multiple choice. Candidates indicate their answers by shading the correct boxes on their answer sheets. Candidates should use a pencil. Each question carries 1 mark.
Entry Requirements
Academic Progression Opportunities
Upon the successful completion of Modules one to three of the TKT series, students can progress onto study the prestigious CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) qualification of Cambridge English. CELTA is considered the passport to global teaching opportunities to teach English to speakers of other languages.
Alternatively, successful students can progress onto the general Pearson BTEC Level 4 Professional Diploma in Teaching offered at GGS.
Career Opportunities
Successful students can demonstrate to their present and/or potential employers that they have widely recognised English language teaching qualifications from Cambridge English. As such, they will be well positioned for career advancement as English language teachers and/or trainers, locally and internationally.