TEFL Org course graduates have used their TEFL qualification to teach across the globe and online. Read their experiences of teaching English as a foreign language, and get inspired!
My journey to becoming a TEFL certified English teacher began in late 2015. After many years of travelling solo around the globe when I could, I reignited my passion for travel by volunteering in South Africa caring for cheetahs and a varied assortment of animals. Upon my return to my role as a personnel manager […]
My journey in Teaching English as a Foreign Language began almost a year ago – I’d returned from my year abroad, which I spent studying in Italy and in Switzerland, and I was also seriously unwell at the time with ovarian cancer. I was looking for something to get me through the following months of […]
From a very young age, I’ve had the travel bug; the passion to explore different cultures, learn new languages, and to live a nomadic lifestyle. I was able to make this dream come true when I took my TEFL course back in 2011; a 2 day weekend in Southampton and a 100-hour online course, including […]
My name is Adrian Knowles and I’m just an average guy from an average town in England, UK. The reason I decided to get a TEFL qualification and teach was to take the average part of my life out of the equation and push myself to not only achieve more but to experience more: a […]
My TEFL journey began in the depths of a wet and miserable British Winter where, as a lost second year university student, I was struggling to find the motivation for… well, motivation for pretty much anything. Without going into too much unnecessary detail, I was struggling with concentrating on university work, dividing my time between […]
As a meticulous planner, you can imagine when it came to applying to TEFL work I spent many an hour researching schools, and cities. In hindsight, during my research I came to the realisation that nearly all TEFL job positions are advertised in almost identical ways; whether that is through school websites, or social media […]
Travelling and experiencing new cultures has always been a passion of mine. TEFL has provided me with the opportunity to travel, live and work in a different culture. My journey with TEFL started in November 2016; I was sat bored in my office job dreaming about having the money to live and travel in a […]
Lydia and Emlyn completed their 150-hour TEFL course in March 2017 and have gone on to teach English in Thailand with MediaKids Academy! Here’s their story… Hello! So firstly, here’s a little video taster of what to expect when moving to teach and live in the North of Thailand… Lydia: Emlyn: Please Like and Share […]
You may have heard that we recently held our very first Facebook Live session with Megan, The Candid Nomad! Megan completed her TEFL qualification with us back in 2013, and has been busy teaching around the world in Chile, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, and here in the UK ever since. She talked to us about her […]
I started my 120 hour online TEFL course back at the start of 2014, after a trip to South Korea. Since then my TEFL adventures have taken me to teach in China, Italy, Vietnam and Myanmar. All beautiful countries with wonderful creative students. However, it was China that first really captured my heart. I landed […]