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[tedkarma]

In SouthEast and East Asia - newer teachers are much more likely to teach children - most jobs, if not actually in elementary and secondary schools, will be in language schools serving those age groups (by far the largest part of the market).

While, of course, TEFL Cert schools can't focus on "every age from 6-16" they do focus on the special needs of those groups and the skills you might need when faced with large classes that are quite common in Asia. Classroom technique will vary significantly between that needed for a group of four year olds vs. sixteen year olds vs. thirty year olds - and again between classes of six vs. sixty.

I think the TEFL Cert providers do a better job precisely because they are newer to the market and thus more responsive to shifts in what students and teachers need.

[Dolma]