International TEFL Academy review, submitted by John.

ITA is a Solid Choice For TEFL.

I’m a bit older than your average English tutor. 61 years young this year to be exact. I thought it might be a good idea to travel and teach and to push myself. ITA was one of the programs which I found and I liked what they were offering. There is a steep learning curve to become familiarized with the program’s study LMS. This took a few days. I did become used to it quite quickly though. One of the standouts is the shared community space where you chat with other participating students in the program. I have quite the list of teaching experience and I didn’t find the course to be out of my reach. Given what I know now about teaching (again, long list) I can safely say that this is a grounded and comprehensive TEFL online course.

I’ve been applying for jobs in the Middle East. Last week I had a reply from a school based in Dubai. My TEFL certificate is recognized there and I’ve always wanted to visit Dubai anyway. Working and living there is a double bonus. I’m currently working with the International TEFL Academy staff to smooth the transition over.

It’s incredible to me the sheer amount of possibilities open to people of all ages to be able to earn a living by doing something that is enjoyable and life changing.

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International TEFL Academy review, submitted by Sarah.

I purchased the ITA Intensive 4-Week Online TEFL Certification Course in August because I hoped it would open the doors for working online. Previously to taking the course I had been a student and had only ever had short-term working contracts – I thought that teaching English online would be a good fit for me. ITA claims on their website that you can take the course and find a teaching English job online within 4 weeks, but this wasn’t my experience at all. The course was ridiculously expensive and I stupidly thought that this would be a solid guarantee of quality. The course IS very good. But I found it unnecessarily complicated and clumsy. Really, you need to take a course to learn how to navigate this course. If you are thinking about taking the course with ITA then my advice, before you even enroll, is to go onto YouTube and look at the Moodle tutorials. ITA uses Moodle as their learning platform for the course. Because of Covid-19 it obviously wasn’t possible to take the in-person teaching practice in-person, so I taught my lessons online. I really enjoyed those classes but I think ITA should reduce the course fee, now that they are saving money on organizing in-person teaching practice placements. If I had known beforehand that the reason for such a high course fee was because they usually pay for your teaching practice hours overseas, instead of teaching them to students online, I definitely would have chosen a different program because the price of the course is way overpriced for what you receive. Especially when I compare the program to other 120-hour courses offering essentially the same course but for a much lower price. I did finish the course and I did receive the certification and I did receive some help finding work, but again I think that here ITA could definitely perform much better. I was just given a list of online schools. For the amount of money I paid, I was expecting much more help with finding teaching English work online.

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Is International TEFL Academy legit International TEFL Academy review, submitted by Alice.

I have one major complaint about this program. The price.

They led me to believe that legitimate TEFL courses can’t cost less than $1,000 and I believed them. The ITA website does an incredible job of convincing you that they are the number 1 course- in the world, no less. So I went ahead and paid the $2000 course fee for their 4-week online TEFL course.

It took me a few days to feel completely comfortable paying so much money for an online course. I had many questions and all were answered very quickly. That was impressive and I guess clouded my judgment because I assumed the amazing student support would continue beyond the purchasing of the course. I was wrong.

I never heard back from anyone at ITA TEFL again.

After I paid, I received all the information that I needed to prepare for the course and get started on the course but it wasn’t personalized. Well, apart from my name copy and pasted on a few of the docs. There was no one available during the course for support and no one available after the course for support. A well-oiled machine? Yes. The course was very good. Worth the $2,000? Not. I could have spent 10x less and I would have gotten something similar.

ITA TEFL has been around for years and I think they are just riding on their name and taking advantage of people by charging such a high price and delivering a product that is comparable to the $200 TEFL courses.

Is International TEFL Academy legit? In my opinion, it wasn’t worth it.

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International TEFL Academy Legit International TEFL Academy review, submitted by Laura.

Is International TEFL Academy legit? This isn’t a course that automatically passes you.

If you just want to take a TESOL course that passes you after you have completed a certain number of online tasks, don’t take this course. This isn’t one of those courses.

If you need a TESOL course that makes you work for your certification, take this course.

I was very impressed with the support and materials I received. Although it was a chunk of change to sign up, I think it’s definitely worth it in the long term. Why? Well, this ain’t no TEFL mill program. They won’t automatically pass you when you’ve completed the course.

I must admit that I sort of began the course with the hope that I could pass it just by following the program guidelines, but when my first assignment was rejected, it made me start to really think about how I was formulating my lesson plans and this drove me, motivated me, to produce the best work which I could in subsequent assignments.

By the end of the course, I felt my head would explode with all the new knowledge taken in

But I became a better teacher because of this. And this is the message of my review.

Sure, take one of those cheap Groupon TEFL courses if you want to do things by half measure.

But if you actually want to pick up valuable, long-lasting skills, I recommend this International TEFL Academy program.

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International TEFL Academy review, submitted by Sam.

Haven’t taught for years so thought it was about time to get a proper qualification under my belt. I took the 120-hour course as a refresher and to get that all-important sheet of certificate paper. Even though I was/am familiar with TEFL, the course threw up a few surprises for me, which reinforced the wise decision I made to brush up on TEFL again. I did learn new teaching techniques and overall I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and feel of the course.

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