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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Online TESOL Canada OISE University of Toronto TEFL review, submitted by Nicole.

Online TESOL Canada. University name on the certificate.

I’m so pleased that I found this review’s website before I made my final online TEFL course decision. On Reddit and on some forums there was a lot of whining about how the course is so expensive and that it’s only expensive because it carries the name of the University of Toronto. Yes, it is costly because it carries the name of the university, which btw is also prominently listed on the certificate, but this course is more than just having an affiliation with the university. To begin with, there are so many scams out there and this program is definitely no scam. Secondly, the course is wonderfully presented. I covered so much teaching ground that by the end I was really surprised at how much teaching theory had sunk in. The lesson plans which you have to submit are very helpful—the feedback given is likewise helpful. So yes, it is the most expensive course, and yes it does cost a bit more because of their university connection, but the price is more costly also because of the high-quality tuition and feedback. I always felt like I was in a safe pair of hands during the course, and that I was being shown the correct way to teach. The after-course support has been very helpful too. They work with Teach Away, a Toronto employment agency specializing in TEFL jobs abroad, and they helped me decide where I wanted to spend my first teaching year overseas. A highly recommended program!

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