The TEFL Org blog is updated weekly to bring you helpful tips and information about finding work abroad, stories from course graduates, and so much more.
When you consider starting your career in the EFL industry, you want to know that you will find the teaching opportunity you’ve dreamed of. You may have heard of both TEFL and CELTA, and it can be quite difficult to decide which course option to choose, as both are entry-level EFL teaching qualifications. It may…
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…
Today is World Teachers’ Day, a day to commemorate the vital contribution that teachers all around the world make to the lives of so many. There are 1,500 million English learners in the world – a huge number, especially when you consider that the second most learned language is French, at 82 million. We’ve trained thousands…
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…
Last week on Facebook Live we interviewed Thomas, our Online Courses Manager! Thomas holds an MA in Education, an Advanced Diploma in Applied Linguistics, and a Trinity Diploma for teaching English as a Second Language as well as a TEFL certificate. He has been teaching English for 26 years mainly in Europe – in particular,…
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…
There’s nothing quite like a good book to transport you somewhere else, and great travel writing can take us places we perhaps don’t have the money or means to travel to. We’ve put together this list of six writers who will be sure to coax out your adventurous side and feed your wanderlust. We’ve tried…
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…
