120-hour Advanced TESOL Certificate

I don't have a teaching background and the course was able to set a foundation, from the onset, to ensure that as a student, I was learning all aspects of the teaching experience. Apart from the curriculum, the covers multi-dimensional factors that could impact a teacher such as learner experience, teaching strategies and different approaches on engaging and eliciting feedback, managing difficult situations etc. The course also provides brilliant support from their administrative team, through assisting students to prepare for job opportunities and in particular preparing for practicums. The tutors are exceptional, very professional and extremely insightful. The team is very approachable and truly demonstrate their support and interest in ensuring students are successful.

It was a delightful experience. I enjoyed refreshing my memory with what the course had to offer. The material given was wide scoped and included different media from videos to tutorials to charts. Some of the content had some typo mistakes that could be avoided. The assistance of the tutor was greatly appreciated. The tutor gave target and vivid feedback on each assignment provided. Assignments were well prepared and targeted the course objectives. All in all it was a very helpful course since it was self-paced for someone who is working.

The course was motivating in content as there was a variety of topics such as second language learning and acquisition, teaching strategies and methodologies, classroom management techniques, ideas on incorporating culture into lessons, etc. The grammar and phonology sections were also comprehensive. In particular, the feedback from the online mentor was detailed and helpful with many suggestions and ideas for improvement of PPP lessons.

One thought is to extend the grammar test at the end of the section so that there are 50 questions or so, instead of 35. Also, more practice with creating PPP lessons for different levels would be especially useful for new teachers of ESL.

In the beginning had my doubts, however the course was surprisingly interesting, informative and motivational! The course syllabuses are very well planned to easily instruct and train a TESOL teacher. I especially like the feedbacks from my tutor. Every feedback was in great detail and very helpful.

I look forward to applying the knowledgde and methods learnedthroughout the course in my future classes and work. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is teaching or is planning on teaching over seas.

I was interested in taking this course to further my education in ESL. I was currently a teacher's aid at an elementary school which had a lot of culturally diverse students. I enjoyed teaching these students and wanted to be able to further my education in this field. As a mature student, I found this course was a great fit with my busy schedule because I could learn at my own pace. The tutor I had was fantastic, very professional and knowledgable. He gave great feedback and was always very quick at getting back to me with any questions I had. During my student teaching practicum, I found the sections on lesson planning very valuable for student teaching as well. I was a little hesitant of the online format but it was very well laid out and the information and videos provided were very practical. I would highly recommend this course!

This course is fairly good value for money. I would not recommend it for someone who has little to no teaching experience. However, it does meet the conditions of Languages Canada, so graduates who successfully complete the course, a practicum and have a bachelor's degree will be able to work in vetted language schools in Canada. It will also be accepted internationally to teach in most types of organizations. Support during the course from tutors could be improved - this is very much a self-directed program. Admin support and communications could be better as well. If you want to save the expense of a paid practicum, you will need to arrange it yourself.

I have been teaching for a few years now, I had very little training when I started, so I was looking to get certified while also improving my teaching skills.
This course had everything I was looking for, international recognition, a great program that challenged me and taught me many things that will be useful from now on. It is not only about grammar, but about understanding how people learn, how to best prepare a class depending on your students, how to use materials adequately and so much more.
I enjoyed the process and had great support when I needed it.
I definitely recommend it !

Although I have some experience with English tutoring, this course has really helped me think about how to organize my lessons in a more organized and cohesive way. There's a lot of material that is covered and there's opportunity to apply what you've learnt with the assignments and reflective essays with very helpful feedback from instructors. I do think that some of the video material could be more engaging, especially with methodology but overall, I am happy I took this course and I think it will be valuable for anyone interested in teaching.