Program Reviews

I found the let's tefl course to be very thorough. It covered how to teach listening, speaking, reading, and writing to adults and children. It also covered a lot of training on grammar like the different tenses and types of verbs etc. And it also went into planning lessons and preparing classrooms. On the whole i'm very happy with the course and feel it provided me with some really thorough and actionable training.

I couldn't recommend this course any higher. It took me about 5 weeks studying one or two hours per night and some more at the weekends. It didn't really seem like I was studying as the most of the information is so easy to absorb - the different techniques just make sense and after you read them everything just clicks. Some of the more difficult modules needed re-reading a few times - like the conditional sentence structures, but in the end I feel i've got the hang of them and have the techniques to explain them to a class.

I enrolled in this tefl course as I finished university last year and have been looking for something interesting to do.

One of the key points that caught my attention was the help with finding a job afterwards, and i’m happy to say that it has certainly lived up to my hopes. I passed the course last week and have already had a Skype interview with a school in China!

Now i’m currently waiting for the results, but feel like it went really well! As part of the interview I had to give a ‘demo class’ which involved the interviewer pretending to be a 12 year old child, and me having to teach them some language. It was quite strange and hard to keep a straight face at first, but Let’s TEFL helped me to prepare for this before hand and the school seemed happy with me.

Wish me luck with the job! And thankyouuu!!

I've just finished the 120 hour TEFL course. It's taken me several weeks of working quite intensively through the lessons each day. I wouldn't say it's especially difficult. Everything is really well structured and the lessons include lots of explanation and examples. However, there is quite a lot of content to work through.

I would suggest you set aside 2 hours per day to work through a whole module so that you get the whole picture of what's being taught in one go. So that would mean going through the whole module for teaching speaking to students, or the whole module for motivation techniques etc. I found this helped me keep working through them at a steady pace.

After finishing the lessons you face an assessment with two parts. The first part is a test which covers questions from each of the previous modules. It took about 40 minutes for me to complete. After that there's an assignment where you need to create a lesson plan and some classroom materials. I wasn't really looking forward to this part of the assessment but it was actually a lot of fun and now I can see how important it was to do.

My assessment was marked within 4 days and I received a pass, along with some feedback on how well I did and what I could have improved on.

After passing the TEFL course, there's also another course which opens up and contains a downloadable CV template with a guidance for teaching passing interviews and giving demo classes. The course staff have also reached out to me and have started to arrange some Skype interviews with schools in China. It seems there's some options available in Beijing with offers of around 14k chinese yuan / $2100 which is exciting so far.

I found this course was incredibly helpful, and would recommend it to any new teacher just like myself.

I haven't ever taught before, and was a little concerned about teaching, but it's something I've wanted to do for such a long time.

After finishing the course I now feel that I have a really strong foundation to handle a class for myself. I'm sure it will be a bit of a challenge to start with, but I know what will be expected of me as an ESL teacher, and I've studied a range of techniques and approaches to help things go smoothly, and to manage any problems that may arise.

I also found it especially helpful to learn about how to apply for teaching jobs, the different salaries available, and how to deliver a good impression through interviews/demo classes.

I found the course really easy to use, and appreciate how the lessons really explained different concepts and techniques clearly. It wasn't quite as difficult as I thought, but i've definitely learned a lot about teaching and how to run a class.

Now that i've finished the course i'm studying their additional job training course and have been discussing with their team to get ready for some skype interviews for some jobs in China. Thank you!!