All 57 international Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs currently listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews are ranked based on verified customer reviews.

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Online TEFL/TESOL courses can be either ‘Unaccredited’, ‘Accredited’, or ‘Fully Accredited’.

‘Fully Accredited’ is the highest form of accreditation. A TEFL/TESOL certificate from a fully accredited program equates to the worldwide recognition of the certification and access to the best-paid teaching jobs.

A TEFL/TESOL certificate from an ‘Accredited’ program won’t necessarily be internationally recognized and will place you at a significant disadvantage when applying for teaching English jobs when you are up against applicants with fully accredited certificates.

‘Unaccredited’ TEFL/TESOL certificates are sometimes accepted by employers, but your employment options are dramatically reduced and the schools that will employ you tend to have poor reputations.

TEFL/TESOL Programs | 2026 | Ranked Best To Worst

1. tefl online pro | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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2. OISE University of Toronto TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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3. CIEE TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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4. Maximo Nivel TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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5. Vantage TEFL Certification | Accredited.

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6. ICAL TEFL | Unaccredited.

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7. The TEFL Institute of Ireland | Accredited.

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8. Global English | Accredited.

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9. INTESOL Worldwide | Accredited.

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10. Bridge TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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11. International TEFL Academy | Accredited.

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12. The TEFL Org | Accredited.

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13. ITTO | Accredited.

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14. Let’s TEFL | Accredited.

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15. TEFL Educator/TEFL Boot Camp | Accredited.

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16. Oxford Seminars | Accredited.

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17. Premier TEFL | Accredited.

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18. i-to-i TEFL/Love TEFL | Accredited.

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19. TEFL Training College | Accredited.

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20. Global Language Training | Accredited.

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22. UKtefl | Accredited.

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23. Teflen | Unaccredited.

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24. CCELT | Unaccredited.

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25. Enjoy TEFL | Accredited.

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26. Teacher Link TEFL | Unaccredited.

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27. TEFL Fullcircle | Accredited.

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28. UNI-Prep | Accredited.

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29. TEFL Iberia | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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30. TEFL Express | Accredited.

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31. TEFL Graduate | Unaccredited.

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32. The Course Mix | Accredited.

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33. TEFL Trainer | Accredited.

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34. ontesol | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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35. The Asian College of Teachers (ACT) | Accredited.

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36. International Open Academy | Accredited.

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37. Learn TEFL | Unaccredited.

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38. TESOL Training International Online | Unaccredited.

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39. Footprints Recruiting | Unaccredited.

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40. Henry Harvin Education | Unaccredited.

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41. Anaheim University TESOL | Fully Accredited.

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42. Dux TEFL | Accredited.

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43. Greenheart Travel TEFL | Unaccredited.

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45. Teach TEFL South Africa | Accredited.

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46. TEFL Heaven | Unaccredited.

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47. TEFL Hero | Accredited.

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48. TEFL Institute London | Accredited.

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49. TEFL Lemon | Accredited.

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50. TEFL UK | Accredited.

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51. TEFL Universal | Accredited.

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52. World TESOL Academy | Accredited.

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53. ITTT | Accredited.

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54. MyTEFL | Accredited.

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55. ESLinsider TEFL | Unaccredited.

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56. ITO | Unaccredited

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57 . The TEFL Academy | Unaccredited

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Please refer to these Trusted TEFL Reviews articles for further clarification regarding TEFL accreditation:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-accreditation-guide/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/01/05/best-tefl-accreditation/

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MyTEFL review (https://mytefl.com/) submitted by Yvette.

Where do I begin? I’ll start with what I didn’t like about the MyTEFL course and then I’ll finish with what I did like about it.

What I didn’t like:

1. Finished this 120-hour course in one afternoon.
2. Had to pay $99 for the TEFL certificate.
3. Noticed spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in the course content.
4. When I tried contacting the MyTEFL office I got no response.
5. The course came with online tutor support, which I didn’t receive.
6. Am worried about the international recognition of the certificate because they are only regionally recognized in Thailand.
7. The course was way too easy and the quiz questions at the end of each module were so easy that my 8-year-old son was able to answer most of them correctly.

What I liked:

1. The course price is good. I paid $199. However, you do need to account for the $99 certification fee on top of this.
2. Some of the modules were better than others. the ones that were (Grammar especially) were written really well and included some excellent graphics.
3. In the end, I did receive my certificate and as long as I want to teach in Thailand I know that I will be able to teach there without issue.

If you want to teach in Thailand, this MyTEFL course will likely be one of the ones accepted by the majority of schools within the kingdom.

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Online TEFL TESOL course review scams in 2026.

(Updated: December 21, 2025)

This is a must-read article if you are choosing which TEFL course to take and are confused by which ones are legitimate and which ones are scams.

The scams are becoming more and more sophisticated.

To prevent your TEFL dream turning into a TEFL nightmare, we strongly recommend that you read this article in full.

Online TEFL TESOL Scam TEFL programs.

Currently, the more notable scam TEFL companies are ESLinsider, ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training, MyTEFL, The TEFL Academy, and World TESOL Academy.

1. ESLinsider

ESLinsider (Ian Patrick Leahy) portrays himself as a TEFL whistleblower and he trashes almost every TEFL program online for seemingly altruistic motives, but his endgame is to sell you one TEFL course – his TEFL course. Among a long list of criminal activity, he was recommending TEFL students without college degrees to buy fake ones online. Some people followed his advice and (in China) were arrested, fined, deported. Ian is currently wanted by the Chinese authorities and is essentially on the lamb, living a transient life in the United States. Ian was banned from Facebook for spreading misinformation and disinformation way back in 2017. https://www.eslinsider.com/

2. ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training

ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training operates under more than 20 different websites. Each one looks similar, but is different just enough so that you would be forgiven into believing that one website is a different company from another website. This company has a bogus accreditation from a website that spells it as “Accredidation”. Affiliate marketing is their lean and they have one favorite who will say and write anything to get you to make the purchase: Linda Dunsmore. ITTT will take your money, give you access to a subpar course, fail to respond to online tutor requests, and ghost you when it comes time for the advertised “free” job-finding help – unless you pay through the nose for their job placement services, which you are recommended to avoid like the plague.

3. MyTEFL

MyTEFL used to be accredited by OTTSA (a website they created) and are now accredited by a bogus company: International TEFL Accreditation Council (ITEFLAC). Folks, official accreditation company website’s don’t have stock images of business people in office boardrooms. MyTEFL offer affordable TEFL courses, but they make their real money from paid job placement services. Do not pay for this service. If you do, when you receive your weekly or monthly teaching pay, without realizing it at first, MyTEFL will be skimming up to 25% off. And what can you do about it when you have locked yourself into a job contract with a language school through MyTEFL? https://mytefl.com/

4. The TEFL Academy (TTA)

The TEFL Academy (TTA) is a truly corrupt corporate company. They claim to be the “Worlds #1 TEFL Course Provider!” They are not. And, despite their many claims, they are not accredited. The TEFL Academy claims to be accredited by AQC, DEAC, QUALIFI, and even by Ofqual. It is only regulated by Ofqual and QUALIFI, and it also appears that QUALIFI might have been created by the good folks at The TEFL Academy. AQC is a sister website of DEAC, and you can see that The TEFL Academy is not accredited by DEAC because DEAC has a search feature that shows all the companies that it accredits – The TEFL Academy is not listed. As with ITTT, The TEFL Academy pays affiliate marketers to promote its courses. More about this below. https://www.theteflacademy.com/

5. World TESOL Academy

World TESOL Academy is likewise shady as hell. They offer TEFL courses for $38 and this appears to lure in a lot of unsuspecting folk. After you pay, you get bombarded with requests to become one of their affiliate marketers. Students rate the course as “terrible” and a bit like flying with Ryanair, with a smorgasbord of hidden fees and additional costs. World TESOL Academy is accredited by Accreditat and CPD that are pay-for-accreditation companies that are not recognized by any reputable language schools. Another red flag is that they have the Reviews tab disabled on their Facebook page. https://www.worldtesolacademy.com/

How TEFL companies scam you.

Besides the above mentioned scams, there are some complex ways in which some TEFL companies will scam you.

And the sophistication of the scams is intensifying.

TEFL Review Website Bedfellows

Go Abroad, Go Overseas and TEFL Course Review are the three biggest TEFL review websites. They each make their money from charging TEFL companies for a listing on their site – the TEFL companies are their customers – and it is in their best financial interests to have positive reviews about (fill in the blank) TEFL company than to have bad reviews published. This is why a company like The TEFL Academy has a high review score on all three websites – they make certain that negative reviews of them are minimized and they are free to have fake positive reviews appear on all three sites, and on the other review sites where they have a listing. Incidentally, The TEFL Academy has a lot of money at their disposal and frequently sue individuals and companies if they dare to publish something negative about them. Trusted TEFL Reviews published a few negative student reviews of The TEFL Academy and we were warned that if they were not taken down, they would sue us. We simply responded that the reviews will remain published because they were written by students of their program.

Affiliate Marketing

If you see an individual excessively promoting a TEFL program – with or without a coupon code for a discount – it will certainly be an affiliate marketer. Caitriona McTiernan and Megan Broccoli are the two main ones for The TEFL Academy and Linda Dunsmore heads the ITTT affiliate marketing side of the business. A large majority of TEFL programs belong to affiliate marketing companies, paying people who have never taken their courses to promote them online and earn money for themselves in the process. They will say and write absolutely anything (“the course was AMAZING!”) to make the sell, such as promises of earning $100 per hour for teaching English online. No one earns anywhere near to $100 teaching English online.

Trashing A Business Competitor

In the Wild West of online TEFL, anything goes. It’s very common for TEFL companies to trash each other online. They create fake profiles and then write fake complaints and fake reviews – misinformation and disinformation – on complaints websites and Reddit. And TEFL programs with deep pockets, such as The TEFL Academy, have now started to pay people to take a competitor’s course and then slam it online. This is cruel and clever because the person can show that they have a certificate from the TEFL company and can write exactly what the company tells them to write. A recent case involved one of the affiliate marketers from The TEFL Academy – Megan Broccoli – who purchased a TEFL Online Pro course, completed it, claimed after an hour of course completion that she couldn’t use the certificate, and began spreading her message on Reddit and elsewhere that the company is a scam. Something similar also happened to OISE University of Toronto TEFL and CIEE TEFL. CIEE TEFL, OISE University of Toronto TEFL and TEFL Online Pro are among the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses.

Reddit

When Online TEFL/TESOL courses were gaining traction about 15 years ago, in response to the established in-person TEFL/TESOL course industry, a few of them set up Reddit communities – communities that they used and continue to use to push their agenda. This tends to focus on trashing their competitors and clandestinely promoting their courses. We recommend avoiding Reddit for Online TEFL/TESOL course information because of this, and because of the vast number of TEFL shills active on the site.

Niche subreddits, such as online course communities, are often run by people with a vested interest in promoting certain courses—for which they receive a financial kickback. This often leads them to delete positive comments about any business competitors of the courses from which they receive kickbacks.

The r/TEFL subreddit is well known for this type of behavior—they allow positive comments for their favored TEFL companies but prevent students of some other TEFL programs from posting honest reviews of their course experiences. They even have a Reddit Wiki page that clearly demonstrates the quid pro quo partnership they maintain with certain programs.

Trashing Trusted TEFL Reviews

It must be so frustrating for the many TEFL programs that don’t have the kind of power over Trusted TEFL Reviews that they lord over other TEFL review websites. So what do they do? They spread misinformation and disinformation about me and Trusted TEFL Reviews because they just can’t handle having even one or two negative reviews published online about them. By trying to discredit this website, they hope that people won’t believe the reviews of their program. All TEFL programs listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews have a free listing and all TEFL programs are free to respond to reviews and to add comments.

The TEFL Wall of Shame.

Important Clarifying Information.

Several points need addressing, and I will write about each one separately:

The Teachers’ Choice Award

Several Online TEFL companies are claiming that the Teachers’ Choice Award is fake. It isn’t. We created the Teachers’ Choice Award back in 2019, after noticing that other mainstream TEFL review websites had also created their awards. The fundamental difference between our award and the awards of other mainstream TEFL review websites is that the winner of the Teachers’ Choice Award is based on merit alone – voted for by language schools, universities, TEFL students, and TEFL graduates. If a company has won an award from a mainstream TEFL review website, it means they have likely paid for the privilege of “winning” that award.

TEFL Online Pro

TEFL Online Pro (https://teflonlinepro.com/) has won the Teachers’ Choice Award for seven consecutive years – they are the highest-rated in 2026. They have won the award every year because they were the Online TEFL/TESOL program that received the most votes. Trusted TEFL Reviews does not own TEFL Online Pro, just as it doesn’t own the other four Online TEFL/TESOL programs that currently hold the place of being one of the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL programs. Trusted TEFL Reviews is an independent Online TEFL/TESOL reviews website. We are not affiliated with any TEFL/TESOL program listed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website.

Trusted TEFL Reviews is a not-for-profit website

Contrary to what some Online TEFL programs claim, it doesn’t cost anything to list your Online TEFL/TESOL program on Trusted TEFL Reviews. Also, we don’t allow any paid advertising because we feel that it could present a conflict of interest. The only advertising allowed is granted to the TEFL program winner of the annual Teachers’ Choice Award. TEFL Online Pro (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-reviews-in-2025/) is the winner of this year’s award, so they have been allowed to promote any TEFL course discounts that they may run during the year. This additional exposure on Trusted TEFL Reviews is without charge for the TEFL program currently enjoying Teachers’ Choice Award winner status.

I am not a man

I identify as a woman because I am a woman, living and teaching English in Vienna, Austria. Contrary to what some Online TEFL/TESOL companies have written about me online, I am not a “man”, I am not a “dyke”, and I am not a “b!tch”. I am a mother. I co-own Trusted TEFL Reviews with my partner and we run Trusted TEFL Reviews together, from our apartment in Vienna. We also have a small office within the city limits that we visit mostly during the summer months when the air-con in the office is a welcome respite. We also run the Teachers’ Choice Award from this office. It is no Online TEFL/TESOL program’s beeswax what our addresses are and we both feel safer not disclosing our addresses. I have received threats in the past simply because I wouldn’t delete a negative review written about one of the TEFL programs listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews.

We never delete reviews from Trusted TEFL Reviews, unless the review is later found to be fake

Online TEFL/TESOL course programs are the customers of the mainstream Online TEFL/TESOL review websites. The programs pay a yearly fee to be listed on the review website, and this is how those review websites generate the majority of their commercial income. Those review websites have a strong financial incentive to hide negative reviews and hold almost no verification process for publishing positive reviews – the vast majority of which are written by the TEFL company. Trusted TEFL Reviews has a strong verification process in place and we only publish reviews that have been proven to have been written by a real TEFL student. This has infuriated a few Online TEFL/TESOL companies – companies that are used to chalking up fake 5-star reviews on those mainstream TEFL review platforms.

We allow all of the TEFL companies listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews to respond to reviews

All Online TEFL/TESOL companies listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews are free to respond to any review published about their program. The vast majority of programs choose not to, but some do. The most prolific company to respond to reviews – responding to every review they receive – is TEFL Online Pro. This company is proactive and recognizes the importance of thanking customers for writing positive reviews and addressing any issues presented by negative reviews. If an Online TEFL company writes that they tried responding to a review but were unsuccessful in doing so, it is a flat-out lie.

Russian review websites

A few months ago, an Online TEFL/TESOL company reached out to me – a company not listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews – complaining that their business wasn’t doing so well. They blamed their dwindling revenue on the many cheap Online TEFL/TESOL programs undercutting them with lower prices. They suggested that they would “handle the Google Ads campaigns” of those programs through a process known as click fraud. They also suggested that I should write some damning reviews about those programs on complaintsboard.com. I refused the offer and told the individual to focus on improving their course offerings and customer services. complaintsboard.com, dirtyscam.com, and ripoffreport.com are all Russian-owned websites. They may claim otherwise, but they operate outside of countries where they can be held accountable for the defamatory material that they allow to be published on their websites. I read one recent “complaint” that TEFL Online Pro is offering courses illegally and not paying their taxes. This, of course, is just fiction. I also read another “complaint” where someone had written that OISE University of Toronto TEFL is a scam and their certificates are not valid internationally. Also, fictitious. The rogue Online TEFL/TESOL companies use these websites to badmouth their business competitors because all you need to do to have your review published is to verify your email address – using any name to create an account. Those Russian websites feel protected from legal repercussions and they are the go-to websites for the dregs of the Online TEFL/TESOL certification course world.

TEFL companies that want to take over the world

The TEFL Academy (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/the-tefl-academy/) is the perfect example of a company that wants it all, and they are willing to break all the better business rules to achieve their objective. We began listing this program on Trusted TEFL Reviews a few years ago. Within a couple of days, we received an avalanche of 5-star reviews for them, but not one of the reviewers was willing to prove course participation in The TEFL Academy program. They were fake reviews. We also have it on good word that this company reaches out to its graduates and offers them a free mini TEFL course if they write a positive review. This is why there is such a disconnect between their reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews and their reviews on Facebook, Trustpilot, etc. World TESOL Academy (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/world-tesol-academy/) is also guilty of this shameless and flagrant middle finger to the better business rules. They claim to be the “Worlds #1 TEFL Course Provider.” This obviously isn’t true, as are many other claims on their website.

Our advice for Online TEFL/TESOL companies

Interact with your customers! If you receive a positive review, thank the customer for spending their time to review your program. If you receive a negative review, apologize and try to right a wrong. Don’t write false sh*t about me or Trusted TEFL Reviews just because you got some negative feedback.

Our advice for Online TEFL/TESOL students

The Online TEFL/TESOL industry is unregulated and highly competitive. Some companies will swear blind to you that you need to take their course because it has more hours or because it has won so many awards. The Teachers’ Choice Award is the only Online TEFL/TESOL certification course program award that cannot be bought. The industry standard is a 120-hour TEFL/TESOL certification course (140 hours if it includes 20 teaching practice hours). You don’t need more training hours because those extra hours are meaningless for TEFL employers. If you pay less than US$100 for a 120-hour Online TEFL/TESOL certification course, you WILL regret it.

Accreditation

To prevent you from becoming a victim of a TEFL scam, we recommend that you choose a Fully Accredited TEFL/TESOL certification course provider.

The most well-known accreditation companies – offering Full Accreditation:

ACCET – Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.

ACTEFLC – Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses.

OISE – University of the Toronto Faculty of Education.

TESL Canada

University of Cambridge’s English Language Assessment

If you read anything negative about these organizations online, it has been written by an Online TEFL/TESOL program – a program that likely has no accreditation itself or one that simply pays a dodgy accreditation company an annual fee.

You can see which companies are Fully Accredited and internationally recognized by looking through the program listings in the TEFL Course Directory:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-course-directory/

The top-rated schools in the directory are top-rated for a legitimate reason.

The low-rated schools in the directory are low-rated for a legitimate reason.

Be smart. Don’t fall for the disinformation and misinformation.

Trusted TEFL Reviews

If and when we are notified of shady practices or even outright scams, we will post details of them in the Online TEFL Course Scams section of this website.

This ‘Online TEFL Course Reviews Scams’ article was originally written and published by Mia Williams, co-owner of Trusted TEFL Reviews (TTR) | Best Featured TEFL Articles

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Liz.

The MyTefl course online was OK. I was on their 120-hour program and it took just over a week to complete. The course itself is designed nicely and seems to cover the main topics that I also spotted on other Tefl/Tesol school websites. I did raise an eyebrow at some of the questions asked because they weren’t really difficult enough and it seems that the course is designed for everyone to pass with flying colors. Very little support was offered at the end. I received my certificate quite quickly and didn’t experience any problems using it overseas. I would like to give MyTefl a higher rating but the support promised just wasn’t there for me.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Doug.

I am very satisfied with the customer service. MyTEFL was very helpful, professional, and friendly. They were understanding when I accidentally answered some of the quiz questions incorrectly and allowed me to retake the quiz. Replies to questions I asked were quick and the course was overall very enjoyable. I thought the section on phonetics was particularly interesting and it is going to be something that I use regularly with my students. I am now in the process of securing a teaching job overseas and the help I have received from MyTEFL has been great so far. I honestly didn’t realize that there were so many places around the world where it is possible to teach English. Thank you very much MyTEFL!

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Simon.

I really enjoyed the My TEFL program. It is user-friendly. After about 3 weeks the certificate arrives and you’re all done. After finishing the course, they asked where I was interested in teaching. I couldn’t get a teaching position in Japan, where I wanted to go, because I don’t have a degree, but they were able to provide me with European teaching English job options, and I’ve accepted a position in Prague, where I’ll be starting in January. Taking this course has really opened my eyes to what makes a good/bad teacher. I certainly feel more prepared now, and I am very pleased I chose this course to study TEFL.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Tina.

Did the job. I wasn’t looking for anything else other than a quick-fix TEFL certificate. They try and upsell you on job placement services when you finish but I didn’t think the price was worth it. Besides, so easy to get a job if you are a native speaker. No need to pay someone else to find a job for you. I didn’t experience any major issues with this company, so I would probably recommend them in the future. I’ll just need to see how effective the certificate is in job interviews going forward.

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120-Hour TEFL Certification MyTEFL review, submitted by Evan.

120-Hour TEFL Certification. Evan’s MyTEFL review.

So many TEFL courses out there! It was a small nightmare trying to choose which one to take. In the end, I narrowed my list down to just two: MyTEFL and TEFL Online Pro. I ended up choosing MyTEFL simply because they were offering me a 50% course discount, because of my recent college graduate status.

To begin with, MyTEFL was very responsive to emails and the telephone call I made to their Vancouver office. They explained everything very clearly, confirming everything written on their website; that the course is exceptional, that there is amazing support throughout the course, that they go out of their way to help with job hunting, etc. I was initially impressed! But then reality hit.

The quick, helpful responses abruptly stopped at the moment of purchasing the (120-hour) MyTEFL course. It was in stark contrast to before I signed up. No matter how many emails I sent, asking valid questions about the course system, I never got a reply back. And yes, I did check my Junk/Spam. I then decided to call them, like when I had, before I paid for the course, and they just brushed me off with a short reply to my question which didn’t help me at all.

In total, I completed just over half the course. Within that time, I received no feedback on any of my work. It felt like I was studying blind. The 6 or so modules which I did complete, I completed in just a few days. It was ridiculously easy. Read a boring text. Answer some multiple-choice questions. Repeat.

The thing is, I didn’t just take the course to get a certificate. I chose MyTEFL because of what student blogs wrote about the course; it educates you in TEFL to a top level. It doesn’t, and I question the authenticity of those MyTEFL student blogs.

After I had finished the sixth module, and when I read through the 7th and saw a few glaring grammar and spelling mistakes in the text, I contacted MyTEFL for a refund. I was still within the window to able to qualify for a discount, based on their course purchase Terms and Conditions.

MyTEFL wrote back that I wouldn’t qualify for a refund, and I never got a further reply back. I had to contact my bank to ask them to get my money back for me. Last Thursday, my bank informed me that they would be able to claw back the money for me, so I now feel comfortable leaving this MyTEFL review.

The first thing I did was enroll in the TEFL Online Pro (120 hours) TEFL course; something I should have done at the start. It’s been almost a week now and the difference between MyTEFL and TEFL Online Pro is like night and day.

I don’t feel like I’m studying blind now. When I purchased the TEFL Online Pro course, I received a welcome email from my tutor (Paul) and when I send a message to him, I got a message back almost instantly. The course is way better designed too, and without any grammar or spelling mistakes. The difference in price is only about $50, so I recommend TEFL Online Pro as the far better choice.

Despite the rocky start with MyTEFL, I’m now looking forward to completing my TEFL Online Pro course and I’m looking forward to teaching English online with the certification. I’ve read great things about teaching English online and this comes at the perfect time for me to start doing it.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Jordan.

I ended up choosing MyTEFL for my TEFL certification because of all the glowing reviews, written by past alumni in the form of travel blogs. It just seemed like such a fantastic program. Well, that’s what the blogs strongly suggested. I now understand that those travel blogs are written by people who earn a referral fee every time someone books a MyTEFL course and uses their unique coupon code. IMO, this is dishonest business practice. If someone is earning money because you sign up for the MyTEFL course, their opinion won’t necessarily be objective.

OK. So here are some of the main points that the blogs claim about MyTEFL, followed by the reality.

1. MyTEFL is a fantastic course.
2. MyTEFL help with job searching.
3. MyTEFL help with building your resume.
4. The MyTEFL (120-hour) course is demanding, but fully trains you up to be a teacher of English.
5. The MyTEFL certification is internationally recognized.

1. The course was OK. I completed it in 5 days. You just read a few pages of text and then complete a quiz at the end of every module. Some of the content was good. Some of the content was just there as a filler for the overall word count.
2. No help with a job search was provided.
3. No help with building my resume was provided.
4. I did learn some useful information on the course, but I thought the course wasn’t substantial enough. You don’t receive any feedback on the assignments. Essentially, you are taking the course on your own and hoping for the best.
5. Yes, I think the certification probably is internationally recognized.

If I were to have the opportunity to take the course again, I probably wouldn’t.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Nina.

A good enough course, but avoid the aggressive offers of job placement.

I have a suspicion that the Online TEFL courses run by MyTEFL are a funnel for getting people to sign up for their job placement services. I didn’t know it at the time, but when I agreed to a teaching job in Thailand (MyTEFL job placement) about 30% of my salary was then creamed off by MyTEFL on a monthly basis. How can I be certain of this? I compared my salary with the other teachers who started at the same time as me and who were in the same position as me. They had found the job on their own. I was “helped” by MyTEFL. I read through some of the MyTEFL reviews and this has also happened to other teachers. The MyTEFL 120 hours course is OK. It’s nowhere near anything as amazing as I’ve seen some bloggers claim, but it will do the job. Just don’t do the job placement with MyTEFL and you should be fine.

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tefl online pro review, submitted by Kelly N.

From start to finish, this was a very good study experience for me (my first course ever taken online) and I just want to write a short review as a thank you to TEFL Online Pro (and as information for people looking to take a TEFL course online) for helping me reach my goal.

It was difficult to decide on which course to take because there are so many of these courses online.

In the end, I narrowed my search down to The TEFL Academy and TEFL Online Pro.

I read some negative reviews about the former, so I went ahead and enrolled in the TEFL Online Pro 120-hour course.

From the get-go, I knew I had made the right choice.

I had a load of questions, which were all answered really quickly, and I never felt like I was being hurried to sign up and pay. I was in contact with Sarah, and she went out of her way to explain the TEFL job market and how TEFL Online Pro was going to help me with my job search after I had taken the course. This included help with my teaching resume and recommendations for which schools were the best ones to teach for. It turned out that Sarah was there to help me at the end of the course. She stood by her word and helped me with getting my resume prepared for job interviews, and she also sent me a list of fresh job leads. This support was essential because without it I a) wouldn’t have known where to look for jobs, and b) I wouldn’t have known which schools are recommended and which are not.

Paul was my tutor for my course, and he was also very helpful and very professional. I didn’t need that much help, but the questions I did have were answered quickly and informatively. The price of the course represents great value for money, and with the TEFL Online Pro certificate (and with the help I received) it has been possible for me to start out teaching English online. The quality of the tuition also got me off to a strong teaching start. I now understand why this school has all those 5-star reviews, and I’m so happy I chose the right company to take my international TEFL with.

What’s also good to know is that I can use the certificate worldwide if and when I want to teach abroad.

Thanks so much, TEFL Online Pro!

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Dale.

This course was comprehensive and easy to digest. You don’t get any video tutorials with the course so this might be a deal breaker for any visual learners out there. For me, I was satisfied without videos because I learn better with data. Besides, there are some excellent explainer diagrams and these were sufficient enough. What I didn’t like about the program was the add-on charges for course extensions and the certificate fee. I also didn’t think much of the MyTEFL job placement service so I opted out of that and just went ahead and searched for jobs on my own.

I don’t think any course will actively prepare you entirely for teaching because it is something that you pick up through experience. The MyTEFL course did a good job of explaining the basics and getting me started in the field with the TEFL certificate. Just would have liked more help with the job search side of things. Felt to me that the moment I said I wouldn’t pay for the job placement they lost interest in me.

I have been using the certificate and have done so with a few companies that give me online students. It took me longer than I’d anticipated starting work. Many of these companies ask that you interview two or three times. That felt unnecessary to me for an online gig which I was obviously qualified for. It isn’t as if I were interviewing to work for a corporate job. My advice is to be persistent and not accept any job offers that pay less than $20 per hour. One school wanted to pay me $12 per hour. That is just ridiculous. I guess though that some people might be tempted to take a job like this just to get a bit of experience before looking elsewhere. Also, don’t believe the blogs which tell you that you can earn $100 per hour teaching English online. It may be possible but not in my experience. Good luck!

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Rosamund.

I just want to start my review of MyTEFL by stating that I didn’t use their job placement services. So this review is limited to the course that I took, the 120-Hour TEFL certification course – which, I thought, was very good. Why did I think it was very good? It was convenient. I paid, studied the modules, took the module quizzes, received the certificate, and began teaching online. Really simple. There is a lot of online teaching work. It did take me a while to get my foot in the door but once you do (and if you are a decent enough teacher) you will soon find yourself inundated with new classes. It took me about a month and a half from sending off my first resume to being offered a job. One word of advice for the procrastinators out there is that you can’t email off your resume and then sit back and wait for the job offers to come flooding in. It’s a competitive market. Many people are looking for teaching jobs online. You have to be proactive like I was. I would keep sending my resume and I would always try and address the email to the HR manager or someone who was responsible for the company hiring. I’m pretty confident the schools receive a huge number of resumes every single day. You need to make it happen that your one is the one that is read, and addressing your email (or even cover letter) to the right person (or even to just the right school’s name) will be putting your best foot forward. So, yes, MyTEFL was a very good course. It won’t turn you into the best teacher ever, but it does the job of teaching you about all the main areas of what you need to know as a TEFL teacher. The only negative is that MyTEFL only helps you with your job search if you pay for their job placement services. I chose not to and I still found a job.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Christine.

I know that MyTEFL gets a lot of bad press, but I had a really good experience with them. I chose them before I’d read any reviews and I’m not sure whether I would have chosen them if I had conducted some further due diligence. My take from the program is that you can’t expect too much when you are only paying a couple of hundred bucks. I, though, was completely satisfied with the whole MyTEFL package. Payment for the course was without issues and my time on the course went smoothly. I learned a lot and that was why I wanted to take a TEFL course in the first place. They also issued my course certificate promptly and if I needed help finding a job placement then the help was there to be had. My advice though is to look for work by yourself because it’s so easy to find work when you are TEFL-qualified and I don’t think that job placements offer the best deals at the end of the day.

I haven’t begun teaching yet but I already have 2 job interviews arranged for next week. I’m applying for teaching online jobs. I have applied to 10 online schools so far and hope to get started in a teaching job well before the end of this month.

MyTEFL was worth it and I want to give them the maximum 5 stars. Thanks.

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