Accredited Affordable 120-Hour TEFL Course

I'm thrilled with what I learned. The reading material is very interesting and the delivery is straightforward and logical in its sequence. I found the feedback to be everywhere to help me understand the thinking behind certain theory and methods. I took the course exactly as they recommended, so it was a long experience. I liked that there was an online teaching unit included since this is what I'm going to first involve myself with. However, after payment I found it a little annoying to get to the LMS. When I informed the tutor, they told me they looked at their system again and changed it. I liked that they replied very soon after my message, which I believe is very good customer service.

As a relatively older guy, well I'm not THAT old but old enough, I found the whole online learning quite a tricky prospect. I got there in the end but it took me a while to get used to logging in and moving around the course page. I'm sure younger students will have it all worked out but learning curves are steep for us nearly oldies. I liked the course once I got a rhythm going and worked out what they wanted (aside from my money, though they didn't charge anywhere near enough) it was a valuable piece of training. It was full of text in every unit, had videos and questions everywhere that you could choose to answer or not (I answered some and not others) and they gave helpful answer solutions on everything that came before the end of unit quizzes. It was helpful to know that even if you got an answer wrong that you'd always get help. I got lots of help!

The units with what they called lesson flows were my favorite - I like what they tried to do with putting ideas into practice. In reality, it's not really practical so much as just a mental exercise but it was better than just a quiz asking what grammar is or something. I'm pretty sure with AI they could come up with something even better mind you. Who knows though, maybe they tried. The added resources at the end of the course are worth the fee alone. They could (and should) charge extra for those but I guess times are tough for every industry. I never once contacted a tutor so that's something I'm in the dark about. I already had a bite from a davesesl recruiter but salary in the Republic of Korea looks quite shockingly poor when you do the math.

I wanted something practical, and I suppose for being self led and all online without video calling, it was fairly, though I believe it could be much stronger if they charge more and put on some group Zoom calls for students teaching each other to practice skills rather than doing hypotheticals. For what I paid, I found the quality to be surprisingly high. They also have a lot of automated feedback for the reading text and practice activities. This I liked a lot as I found myself learning while doing, which is practical in one way, I suppose.

I enjoyed when they showed Val teaching classes, and I thought it was a nice touch to also ask questions that linked theory to this teaching. However, some videos were shown without questions - I think that misses an opportunity. Is this practical training? They tried hard to make it that way, but if they wanted to really step it up, they'd off group teaching opportunities. However, for what I paid, I'm more than satisfied. The after course materials are very useful.

I thought this was great. However, I had expected a night of quite easy questions and to be able to have my certification in the bag before bed. Well, fast forward a few weeks later and I’ve now finished my slice of humble pie and the course. It was intensive. Good intensive. Humbling intensive. I thought I knew what TEFL was, jumped in the ring with it, and came out of the training a lot more aware.

A few bits of advice to maybe keep in mind before doing any TEFL course: make sure you treat it seriously and realise it’s a pretty big undertaking. Take time to read the feedback as it’s actually very useful. And I’d also say if the course doesn’t look like it is actually geared toward training you and just seems like it was thrown together, get a refund. Despite my initial hubris, I’m glad I ended up completing a course that was full of materials and questions as I now get to put it in action. Oh and also, some countries dont even require a TEFL cert, though I'd say it's well worth it.

A couple of observations about the course and TEFL in general. I think it’d be wise for this place to offer alumni access after course expiry. On the subject of alumni, why not have a network setup so past students help help present ones? Blacklisted schools, salary expectation updates, that kind of thing? Also, you covered first day teaching but why not give us more on that toward the end of the course? Refresh, right?

Study TEFL is the cheapest course I could find with what I was looking for at the time. I’m glad I chose it. The latter is despite the slightly edgy LMS access I went through, though they literally just told me they’ve sorted this one out, so let’s hope so. Anyways, the course opens on a sleek wee learning studio with nice smooth content that looks way flashier than its price would have you believe. There’s maybe 24 or 25 lessons with the text sections and video embedded in plus some review questions. Like I said, this is all nice and smooth. There’s feedback on all their practice content like quizzes and their flow scenes, but I’d like to have got that level of feedback on the unit quizzes. Sure ya may argue that’s to stop copying or cheats or whatever but a bit more would be nice. The two big tests aren’t that daunting but they do have a bit where you need to watch a teacher in class. The other videos of teachers are handy btw, and there’s quite a few of em, but most aren’t tested. I still watched them, cos I’m an A* student lol. Look, this course is class, and I’m recommending it, so end of

I finished this experience at the weekend and am happy to write a review in support of the TEFL course. I have found the course to be interesting and useful for me to understand how to teach English to children. The unit on planning and motivation and assessing are for me the best ones as I can learn how to really make interesting lessons with purposes.

About the cost, it is very cheap but there are many cheap courses now, so I don't think it is 'too' cheap, but just right for me. The staff, I have not needed to worry them with emails, but the feedback on the website course is very good.

This is actually my second time doing a TEFL. The first one was 100 hours (won’t name names) and poor quality. I lost my PDF, but aim told it might not even have counted anyway as most places ask for 120 hours. Well whatever the case is, this course was immense in comparison to that one, on every point aside from that one had job support that forced them to give you up to date job links. This one does some of the same job stuff but there isn’t really a daily job update or anything. Everything else wipes the floor with the textbook type course I did. I assume tech prices for coding now are so much cheaper as is video production etc. either way, I’m impressed by what you get here.

It's a course that is excellent in almost every way. I started it last year and have seen it get better in terms of visuals, videos, and written content. I have messaged the tutor, and they have always responded quickly. The structure of the 120-hour course makes a lot of sense, and I enjoy studying it.

However, I have one major issue: some of the videos are not available in Indonesia when I am traveling there because Vimeo's private video system is blocked there (and possibly in China too). They suggested using a free VPN to access them. After leaving Indonesia, everything works perfectly, but this was a little irritating.