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IDELT vs. others?

 
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warmachinenkorea



Joined: 12 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:59 pm    Post subject: IDELT vs. others? Reply with quote
My wife and I are thinking about getting certified with a TEFL, CELTA etc...

I was reading a bit here: http://www.bridgetefl.com/bridge-idelt-bl.php

Anyone know anything about this? Is is good? Better than other certs?

Or does anyone have any experience with BridgeTEFL? Or who would you suggest?

We might just do a cheap online TEFL so my wife can get the pay raise.

Thanks.
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Jessie41



Joined: 14 Dec 2007
PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 9:12 pm    Post subject: Re: IDELT vs. others? Reply with quote
warmachinenkorea wrote:
My wife and I are thinking about getting certified with a TEFL, CELTA etc...

I was reading a bit here: http://www.bridgetefl.com/bridge-idelt-bl.php

Anyone know anything about this? Is is good? Better than other certs?

Or does anyone have any experience with BridgeTEFL? Or who would you suggest?

We might just do a cheap online TEFL so my wife can get the pay raise.

Thanks.


I wouldn't recommend that course. Mainly because of the 70 hour online portion. The cost of $1500 is high when you consider some schools in some countries may not accept the certificate because half of it was online. To compare, I'm taking a CELTA this fall. The course fee is about $1100, plus about $500 for housing, but I won't have to worry about whether or not the CELTA would be accepted.
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Jessie41



Joined: 14 Dec 2007
PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also, I just noticed the IDELT only includes about 3 hours of teaching practice. The standard is generally 6 hours. That may hurt your chances for some jobs that require a certificate with 6 hours of teaching practice.

For a pay raise in Korea, a $200 to $300 online course that is over 100 hours will be enough. However, I know that SMOE will not accept an online course that won't give an original certificate. I don't know about the other programs.

If you want to teach outside of Korea, for the cost of that IDELT I would do a 4 week onsite course. In many countries it would cost about the same or less.
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