TEFL in Antigua, Guatemala with Guaranteed Job Placement

The TEFL Program is a very intensive but rewarding experience I would highly recommend to anyone interested in teaching English abroad. The TEFL Program offers a lot of experience and will expand your resume. Even if you have no prior teaching experience or even understanding of the language, no problem, because Mackenzie will be sure you understand. The bond your create with your new classmates will last a long time. And I felt I was able to grow close to all of my classmates as well as with the instructor.

Amazing course with a wonderful instructor. Highly recommend others to take this course. Located in a great city where you can enjoy your nights off dancing or socializing with locals or other tourist. The practical teaching week is a great opportunity to apply the techniques we learned during the course. Instructor feedback was a huge helpful component during this course. The institute was also very helpful supplying everything I needed to teach, from markers to paper print outs. I felt really supported through and through.

I chose to complete my TEFL certificate at Maximo Nivel in Guatemala and am very pleased with my experience. For starters, I felt that the class, while intense, was very supportive and attainable. I really enjoyed having a smaller group setting as I felt it allowed us to learn a lot about each other and that we were all able to contribute. Our instructor was great and made learning even the most boring subjects of grammar enjoyable. The staff at Maximo was overall wonderful, helpful and friendly

This was an amazing experience I am so glad I through myself into. The whole course was very intense, but so rewarding. I really love the city and the people who live here. My instructor was Mackenzie and he was all I could’ve hoped for. He is a really nice character, and very, very good at his job. He helped me willingly every step of the way. The course fully prepares you for teaching taking on your own class and my highlight is that I am now living in Antigua as an English teacher at Maximo getting a job straight after finishing the course!

I was told that this course would be intense. And they were right! The one month course was jam packed with class time, mini lessons, classroom observations, lesson plans and finally a week of practical teaching. But, after the fact I felt prepared to teach and most importantly deeply fulfilled. Mackenzie was an excellent TEFL trainer and he has continued to provide job finding assistance after the course. I finished the course with the skills and knowledge to go out and confidently start teaching.

TEFL was expensive, and the course-load was quite large, but I truly believe I could not have had a better teacher. Mackenzie Tucker was an absolute pleasure to learn under. This platform is asking me to make 500 characters, but I have said everything I need to say so. Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop Whoop

Although I wasn't exactly sure what I signed up for with the TEFL certification it was intense but wonderful. It was A LOT of work but my teacher MacKenzie Tucker was excellent. He explained things in multiple ways, modeled teaching a lot and was available after class every day. I took full advantage of his after hours. Although it was a lot of work not once did I feel like I couldn't do it because MacKenzie made sure I understood the information and helped me every step of the way. I am a 51 year old woman and just now decided I wanted to get the TEFL certification so learning Google Docs, Zoom and teaching online was challenging. MacKenzie helped me step by step. The practical teaching was nerve wracking but my blood pressure came down each time I did it. The immediate feedback from MacKenzie was super helpful. I loved learning in Guatemala and with the school centrally located I was able to get to school every day easily and it has MANY great food options nearby.

The only reason I didn't give Maximo Nivel a 10 out of 10 is because:
1 There was much course content on how to teach children. There was some reading about it at the beginning of the course but since I will be working with children a lot and they don't know how to read, I was a bit disappointed that the practical teaching curriculum didn't include lesson on how to teach children.
2 All of the observation videos I watched were "in person" yet all of my practical teaching was online. I would have preferred to have at least watched one "online" video. And I would have really liked to have taught one "in person" class. In the end, I know it is easier to go from "online teaching" to "in person" than the other way around so I am really grateful I learned all the technology.

Thanks Maximo Nivel for the knowledge I have gained, the skill I have developed and the ability to help anyone learn English anywhere in the world!

The TEFL Certification course absolutely exceeded my expectations! The coursework was challenging and completely prepared me for a life of teaching English abroad. I was extremely pleased with the academic support and the opportunity to teach real students during the practical teaching week. My host family was also incredibly accommodating and my room was comfortable (and had wifi). You are definitely getting the complete package when taking the TEFL Cert at Maximo Nivel. My TEFL trainer (Mackenzie) was knowledgeable and always quick to respond to any emails and help out with the class during office hours. The job finding workshop and lifetime job finding assistance Maximo provides was also an essential part of the program for me. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to become TEFL Certified.