The TEFL Academy Reviews

Having hit a crossroads in my life, hitting forty and recently retrenched after a good long career in marketing and event management. I decided to make a complete career twist and I started my Level 5 TEFL Course (168 hrs) in August and completed it before the end of September, having so much time on my hands made it easier as I could set full study days as well as plan my timing for assignments.

I found the course to be easy to navigate through, with tests at different sections to make sure that I was understanding the course and what would be required from me in the future, when I persue TEFL teaching as a career.

Having not studied in many years, it took me some time to get back into the assignments and I landed up thoroughly enjoying every moment spent on the course and my assignments.

Feedback when needed was relevantly quick and assignments were marked and returned with good feedback and pointers on ways to improve going forward from the dedicated markers.

I would recommend TEFL Academy to any learner young or older due to the ease and the ability to study and complete your course through many different devices

Excellent course to do online. Very helpful tutors and other support staff. Easy to access and thorough coursework. Very tough assignments but worth it and prepared me to deliver to students.
Recommend it anyone who wants to develop their teaching skills online or abroad. Very flexible too.
I recommend this course to anyone who wants to do it to expand their cv or solo travellers who want explore other countries and to utilise their skills combining with their travels. Each unit was very thorough with useful extra reading. The end of the unit tests were hard, but challenging as to what you learned. Although it is 168 hours one achieve it quickly. I found certain aspects like grammar very useful as I never covered it thoroughly in my days.

I recently completed The TEFL Academy - TEFL Combined Level 5 Course which had both online and a weekend practical teaching aspect to it.
The course itself I thought was excellent and would be the perfect start to anyone wishing to pursue a career in English Language teaching. The online tests ensured I had fully understood the content of each Unit and the whole course layout was perfect.
The assignments were challenging and gave me a real insight into the life of an ESL teacher. The weekend course I spent in Brighton was based at a hotel and included other students on the same course. It was a really enjoyable and educational weekend which has given me great confidence going forward in my career.
Overall I would fully recommend this course to anyone wishing to work either at home or abroad within the industry.

I really enjoyed this course and feel like I learned a great deal about language and teaching. The support staff were quick to respond and helpful and it is clear that they take criticisms into account in order to constantly improve the course. They adapt the assignment deadlines if you have a special education need and provide useful feedback. The course was well structured and the format of each lesson was user friendly and well explained. Six months to complete the course was appropriate and you could do each section in your own time and based it around your work/home life. TEFL is a really useful qualification for overseas travellers so it was useful to have an affordable course available to do in your own time and with good program support.

I completed the Level 5 Certificate course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Although I've been a tutor for more than 25 years, I still learned quite a lot from the course. The course contains 10 units, which cover, e. g., lesson planning, teaching vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar and how to select teaching materials. Candidates had to complete three assignments, which I found rather challenging: 1. planning a reading lesson; 2. planning a grammar session; 3. commenting on a course book and choosing authentic materials. The feedback on the assignments was prompt, fair and thorough. All my queries were dealt with in a timely manner. For me it was convenient to study at home, and I found it easy to navigate through the programme. Highly recommended!

Earlier this month I completed the Level 5 TEFL course (168 hours). It took me about three months in total. I've been impressed throughout my studies at the quality of the online platform. From both a content and visual perspective it is well developed and engaging. Studying alone can be isolating but it kept me interested as I moved through the different sections - the way they are structured means you're always learning something new and different. I also liked the further reading/resources material that was provided at the end of each section. The assignments were tougher than I expected and really got me to reflect on what I’d learnt and put it into practice. I feel confident now to help students learn English and am very pleased I took this course.

When I was doing my research on what course provider to choose for my TEFL course I came across many good reviews about the TEFL Academy and their outstanding deals and the overall value of their courses. So I chose them! I enjoyed the course, the assignments were challenging enough and there's plenty of materials, tips and further readings given. I feel like I have a good amount of informations and knowledge to try starting a career. I wouldn't have minded doing some more in depth grammar revision during the course, some of it is included but I would have liked a bit more practice through more challenging tests. That's the only downside I can found about the course and in order to teach you will have to do plenty of more revision anyway! The staff are very polite and prompt in responding to any inquiries. Also when you complete the course they give you a big list of websites where to apply for TEFL jobs all over the world and they offer their help with your CV writing. Being unable to travel at the moment, I am looking into on-line teaching/tutoring which I wouldn't have considered before but I can see it happening now!
Sooo... I definitely recommend this course! Good luck with your journey! :)

Don't overthink!
Start asap and dont leave large gaps between units. The course was challenging but satisfying.
Would it be true about regulating the TEFL course by having to do a revision of 100 hours after 2 years of completing the course?
I would certainly be more truthful about age and qualification limitations to successfully secure positions.
How would one secure online teaching positions at age 58 with 21 years teaching experience. 2 months down the line and still no secure positions.
I look forward to travelling overseas to teach. I would love to travel using TEFL at my age because it's do able rather than waitressing as an alternative to make money while travelling.
How many other older people do this? And what is the success rate?

I really enjoyed the layout of the course. I thought the chapters followed a good structure that built on each previous chapter. I enjoyed the assignments and found that the TA feedback was very useful. I spent roughly 3 hours at a time working on it and was very productive some weeks and other weeks not so much. I completed the course during the summer so I had a lot going on but found I was so interested in the content that I wanted to make time for the course. I think it will be a great resume builder because it seems to be from a very reliable company. I would recommend if you are thinking of teaching abroad because you can easily save a lot of the information for future use. Overall, the course was a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be but was well worth it.

I thoroughly enjoyed the TELF course. It's given me a new appreciation for education, sparking new and exciting ideas. I'm so excited to start my journey nurturing and moulding young minds and changing lives through communication.

The course material was uploaded speedily, and the course material was delivered in bite size chunks. The were challenging parts and parts that were common knowledge. The material was interesting. I would have like to have printed the information for further reference. The pictures didn't copy over and had to be 'snipped' in order to copy them over.

Assessment feedback was provided timeously. Feedback was fair and provided great guidance on how to improve the assessment. The level of the assessments were of good quality.

All in all the course was well worth the money.