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ble21ach · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

What should I get? TEFL for business or TEFL for children. I will be getting the TEFL for adult too. I have to pick between business and children. Thank you.

Don't make any remark regarding why TEFL is not necessary. It is because I want to get the working permit in VN. thanks for your time.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 216

It doesn't really matter which tefl you get. Just flip a coin and decide. Laughing

And good luck in getting your WP.

Mr Wind-up Bird · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 196

You have to pick between business & children? What Mickey Mouse training centre are you attending?

ChuckECheese · Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 216

slug93 · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 38

I've found my TEFL class good for THREE things!

1) learning how to write a lesson plan for class from scratch.

2) how to explain things(grammer/words/etc.,) using pictures/examples and hand motions! HAHA

3) live practice with real students

If you have no experience teaching, then a TEFL is a good place to start PLUS getting one in the city or country you want to teach helps get that first job alot easier.

When you teach at a school, most school give you a book and you just follow the book and add something of your own into the lesson. Also, if you teach as a "native-english" teacher then the schools use you for "speaking/pronuciation" lessons. So your classes emphasis those skills more than reading or writing(which is suppose to be taught be the VN teacher). So you find yourself teaching LESS grammer, which i personally find interesting to teach.

Mr Wind-up Bird · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 196

The basic 4-week CELTA/Trinity course is just that - basic. You only start learning to teach once you actually start teaching. The centre I did mine at is one of the best and most respected training and TEFL centres in the UK - excellent tutors, a very professional Trinity course - but even they passed people who shouldn't be allowed within 20 miles of a classroom.

Basically it's all about money. The industry charges you to get a certificate in the first place, then the only way you can get promoted is not by doing a good job, but by paying more money & doing the DELTA.