IS TEFL WORTH IT? CHEAP TEFL MIGHT BE BETTER VALUE.

Look, we're not going to go on about this and waste your time, but with studyTEFL it is pretty clear that you get much better value TEFL course training than with the International TEFL Academy. As a consumer, you always get the choice, and of course there will always be a percentage of people who pay above the reasonable rate because they live by the assumption that paying more means getting more, but does that need to be you? StudyTEFL provides access to free lessons before any form of sign-up, we do not harrass you with annoying emails to promote our courses, and you are fully covered by UK and EU law with our 14-day moneyback guarantee for unused courses. Furthermore, our content was created by experienced, licensed international school teachers.

International TEFL Academy is undoubtedly a very competent TEFL course provider - it gets rave reviews. Well done to this course provider for their success! However, $1300 extra for practical teaching experience that you, as the trainee, must arrange locally, and a few hours extra observation of demo teaching lessons seems extreme considering most of your learning will occur when you actually have a job teaching English abroad. Trust us here, a TEFL certification course is valuable, it will give you excellent foundations to build upon, and you will be more confident from the outset because of it, but your true training begins the moment you stand in front of your ESL students, not someone else's. What we mean by this is that once you have your own class(es) of students, the real learning begins - helping teach someone else's class for a few hours will help to give you a feel for the teaching terrain, but it won't help you experience the magic of bond-building and developing on the long-term plans that real teaching relies on.

One last thing: more expensive TEFL courses may also provide lifetime job support, but budget TEFL course providers have also been forced to offer this to compete. In fact, we provide this service by updating our TEFL jobs recruiter links and even adding an up to date TEFL jobs board. If there's anything we've missed out, please contact us to let us know. We welcome being corrected for the sake of truth and will happily amend anything we write should it no longer be relevant or truthful.