TEFL Campus Phuket/Chiang Mai

If you want to try teaching ESL then this is the course for you. The program is pretty intensive but manageable. And they prepare you to be in the classroom. Their grammar teacher was excellent. The course was fun, I made nice friends, had a good time. The staff was supportive and experienced. They put students in the classroom the first week of school. But that's how you learn to teach - by doing it. Such a valuable course - I just finished my Masters in ESOL and I can tell you that I learned things in this course that I still do today that I didn't learn in University. Very practical things - how to use games and music in the classroom - how to elicit responses from the class - how to teach grammar! Great course when I took it.

The program was a great way to develop TEFL skills for teachers and allowed me to network with other future TEFL teachers as well as connected me with TEFL schools in the area. The school was small but allowed for a one-to-one experience and evaluation that promoted my teaching skills. I thought the first day was very stressful but also a great way to immerse oneself into teaching. We were all tasked with teaching a 5-10 minute lesson on any topic of our choice by the end of the day.
The combined program allowed for me to focus on my job search during the day and teaching in the afternoon/evening. I completed all of the English courses online previously. The teacher allowed me to attend the English teaching development courses if I wanted and this is a great way to further refine those skills.
Overall it was a great value for the money and a smart way to network and find nearby schools willing to hire teachers with a variety of background, experience, and education.

Great program, the assistance and on the ground support from the company is great. Eric the owner is very helpful and insightful. Had a great experience and helped me find a job that I loved! The one month program is good to feel out the country and try and figure out where you want to teach. The cities, islands and mountains up north are absolutely spectacular. Before you go out to Thailand or any country make sure that you go out a month or 2 before the beginning of their semester to complete your training and be on the ground when the schools are looking to hire. Overall the program set me up for the best year of my life. I can also now teach in over 100+ countries and look forward to what the future has to offer.

It's absolutely everything you need to start your journey to become English teacher. Very intense and demanding, so by the end you'll be exhausted, but very happy! Practice lessons you'll have with students will let you taste how working as teacher looks like and also give you a little of precious experience. Eric and Simon offer not just knowledge, but also any assistance and support you might need during the course.
Course definitely worth doing!

Great course. Provides a good base of knowledge and also the knowledge on how to go about continuing to learn and advance should you choose to. Actual practice teaching and lesson planning along with learning aspects of the English language that we, as native speakers, might not be consciously aware of that are very important to teaching English to speakers of other languages.

On a more personal note, if you are like me and tend to do better with more gradual learning, you may find this course a bit stressful. It's very much a dive-right-in style, which it has to be because of the amount of content they fit into a very short time. It's still very doable and just try to be open to making mistakes. The more you make in the course the more you can avoid later in an actual job. The staff are good about giving constructive criticism and helping you learn from each experience. They can also be very direct in telling you if you have certain things that you really need to work on. Again, if you're like me, just remember that now is the time to hear this stuff so you can be aware of it and work on it for your actual job if you are planning on getting a job after.

The area was very enjoyable. Lots of places and things to do within walking distance, and even more if you rent a motorbike. Buses were easy to use, especially since most of the people were very friendly and helpful even if you didn't know any Thai. The beaches were stunning. The food was excellent. There was not a lot of time during the course to go do larger things like island tours or zip-lining, elephant sanctuary, staying the night elsewhere. Certainly doable, but there is a bit of work outside the classroom, so I personally didn't have time to do a lot of sightseeing and such during the course. For that reason, if you don't plan on staying in Thailand, I would recommend, if you can, at least staying a couple weeks after the course.

Stayed at both Phuket Center Apartments (only for 4 days) and Sakul House (for the rest of the time). Both were great. Phuket Center Apartments (PCA) has larger rooms with a more western style shower and much less noise pollution from the road. The internet seemed a bit tricky for the few days I was there, but maybe easy enough to get used to. There is a great little store right outside of PCA for snacks and water, soap, shampoo, etc. Very close to lots of restaurants and shops and a walking street market on the weekends. Sakul House is a bit more homey, less hotel-like. It came to feel like a second home. Rooms are smaller, but still plenty of room, especially since most of the time other than sleeping and homework is spent outside the room. The road noise is definitely loud if you're not used to that sort of thing. The owner is awesome and the lady that cleans the rooms as well. Also within easy walking distance of several restaurants and still pretty easy walking distance into Old Phuket, even though it's farther than from PCA. There's even a new market that opened up right next to it. The giant weekend market is about a 20 minute walk from Sakul. Both are easy walking distance to the school.

Both the course and Thailand were amazing. Would highly recommend this to anyone interested in teaching English as a foreign language and even if you're not interested in that, I would highly recommend visiting Thailand. Learned lots and had a ton of fun.

Thailand is a beautiful country and it was amazing meeting my fellow TEFL students and Thai locals. This course is worth what you pay and more. There is a lot packed into the 4-week course but it's well worth it! The time will fly by especially in Phuket! I am currently back in the US now but am already planning my next trip back! I plan to teach online for now but I am grateful for the experience I gained during the course. I was lucky to have such skilled instructors and great feedback after my practice lessons.

The course with TEFL Phuket was good! They help you find a job and a lot of assistance after. Im not native English speaker so was little worried if I would be able to do it but it all went fine, even learning how to teach was scary at first but they help you build up till you can do it own your own. We had nice and friendly classes, in real life its not always like that of course. All in all a good course, little pricy but thats for everyone different I guess.

I thought that the teachers and information given was very helpful. Teachers were very thorough when going over the information. overall was given a lot of help, guidance, and direction. Lesson planning was a lot easier because of the books they had but not all schools have that available. All lessons were taught to adults even though most jobs you will be teaching ages 4-16. Resources available to us were very helpful and the last three weeks you have a lot of spare time during the day if your not teaching.