How to salvage a bad CELTA experience:
 Realize that you can learn a lot about good teaching by observing bad tutors. I observed tutors using techniques with trainees that trainees would never have been allowed to use with language students. This included sarcasm, cruel mimicking of trainees, veiled threats, blatant favouritism, etc. One tutor was so harsh and her moods so unpredictable that in any real, controlled, professional teaching environment, she would have been reprimanded and likely removed. Another, the lead tutor, who continually distributed handouts with misspellings, took almost three weeks to learn the trainees’ names.
 Understand that as a participant in certain CELTA factories, you are nothing more than a “trainee dogâ€