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TEFL Qualification

  • 30-07-2010 6:45pm
    #1
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭


    I don't want to sound vulgar here, but I want to do the dirt cheap, absolute cheapest TEFL qualification around. Basically all I want is a piece of paper that says 'TEFL qualified'. Basically I have finished university and have been unable to find work and have decided to get the hell out of this country!

    Can anyone offer any advice? I'm aware CELTA and the like is the best option but I simply haven't got the money or the patience for that.


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  • #2
    unreggd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    If you havent got the patience to do a TEFL course, how the hell are you expecting to have patience to teach!?

    If you wanna leave, go

    A TEFL isnt the only way to work abroad, and its defo not a guarantee


  • #3
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    unreggd wrote: »
    If you havent got the patience to do a TEFL course, how the hell are you expecting to have patience to teach!?

    If you wanna leave, go

    A TEFL isnt the only way to work abroad, and its defo not a guarantee

    The money situation is clearly more pressing than the patience. If the longer courses were cheaper I'd consider it.

    Are you going to offer advice?


  • #4
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    OP if time and money are an issue then you can buy a TEFL cert on the Khao San Road in Bangkok :D

    Seriously I think there may be online versions or something, they should be cheaper and maybe quicker as you do them online in your own time.


  • #5
    insinkerator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭insinkerator


    You can do a 60 hour online course with i-to-i for 168 or 179 or something like that. I think its the cheapest i have come across. If you got to the TEFL section of courses on jobs.ie it will give you a link to all the i-to-i courses.


  • #6
    Bruz82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Bruz82


    http://www.i-to-i.com/tefl/


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  • #7
    djcervi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭djcervi


    OP have you tried Fas, to see whether you could apply to do a TEFL course here? I know it means staying in Dublin, but you could qualify to study here for free. After that you could teach here or abroad. I know someone who did that after college, and managed to do a TEFL course like that.

    I think there are positions under Internships on jobs.ie, looking for teachers to head to Spain and gain the qualification on the job.


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