OISE University of Toronto TEFL review, submitted by Craig.

I always had to take a TEFL course high up on my To-Do list, but just never got around to it. The right time never presented itself, and I’m a procrastinator by nature Towards the end of last year, I got laid off from my work and this gave me the time to be able to focus on the 4-week online TEFL. Well, the course took me 5 weeks, but I read online that 4 is average. I chose to take this teaching English qualification course with the University of Toronto TEFL for a couple of reasons: I live in Toronto, and I wasn’t paying for the course myself so I was able to afford to take the most expensive online TEFL course I could find.

Loved the course. It starts nice and easy and progressively gets more intensive as you clock up the module numbers. As a native English speaker, I was taken aback by how much new information I was learning in the course about my language. Before taking the TEFL, I was considering whether to apply for teaching jobs without the TEFL training and just wing it as I went. Now that I have taken the course, I would urge people not to skimp on the TEFL training. Without it, I would be completely lost in knowing what is required of English teachers. There is so much to learn that I feel sorry for people who get a job without taking a TEFL course because they sure are going to have a year or more of failing in front of their students. So yeah, take a TEFL class before you think about teaching English as a temporary, or long-term profession.

To conclude: I recommend the University of Toronto TEFL course online.

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Teach English Abroad ICAL TEFL review, submitted by Tim.

Teach English Abroad. I escaped the 9 to 5 job treadmill.

Probably like many of you reading this, I was stuck in a job where I was paid too little and where too much was expected of me. The final straw came when a promotion was up for grabs and where I was a natural choice. It was given to another employee who had a family connection with the manager. That was it, I told myself. I was sick of working for relative peanuts and feeling that I wasn’t really going anywhere.

I became a member of many earn money online Facebook groups (none of them proved fruitful in any way) and then I became attracted to the idea of the travel and work combo. After spending weeks in front of my screen, I came across this teaching English overseas opportunity and it seemed like the perfect way to escape the 9 to 5 job treadmill.

As a (proud) Canadian, I wanted to take my TEFL through a Canadian company. ICAL was one of the companies which caught my attention, and after some further research, I paid for their 120-hour course and started their online teacher training course.

I was actually surprised by how straightforward the course was. It’s explained extremely well. OK, some of the units demand more brain power than others, but overall I would say this is a course that most Canadians can pass without any teaching experience.

A month later, I booked a ticket to Bali. A few weeks after that, I moved on to Jakarta. Bali is beautiful, but the teacher market there is saturated. I taught in Jakarta for a year and then did another couple of semesters teaching in Surabaya, where there are endless teaching opportunities and where the air quality is much cleaner than in the capital.

I met my future wife while I was teaching in Surabaya.

We moved back a few years ago to set up an online teaching business. We are still going strong.

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If you want out of the boring 9 to 5, take an online TEFL course and redefine your professional career. It takes courage but pays back many times over. Freedom is not free, you still need to work your socks off, but it’s worth it in the end.

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