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Talib Morrison · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Location: UAE

Has anyone completed the "i 2 i" online tefl course advertised on this site?

Did you find it helped your teaching or job hunting?

Is it worth doing an online tefl until I have time to do a celta/delta?

thanks

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

It's discussed to death in dozens of threads. Use the 'search' to take a look: the consensus tends to be that online certificates are only a piece of paper. If you want to be hired by a school that only wants a piece of paper, have it at.

duke6 · Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 10 Location: California, USA

I took the "I to I" and was satisfied with it. I did it on my summer vacation from teaching. I was able to focus and I had a tutor/teacher who had many years of experience and I got some great advice from him. Now on the other hand, the "I to I" message boards are filled with negative comments.

Currently I am tutoring ESL on the weekend and still have my job during the week. One more thing, I was able to get a discount on the course by calling them.

Best of luck.

Duke

tedkarma · Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:54 am Post subject:

SOME training is better than NO training.

So . . . if your time and budget allow only for online training - shop around and get opinions (as you are doing).

If you decide you like the career - at some point it will be quite worth getting a full-Monty type course with observed teaching practice.