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[Wondering]

http://www.teflcorp.com/ol-home.htm

Has anyone here completed this course online?

[Boodleheimer]

i did ITTT.

[Jizzo T. Clown]

Same here. It's not half bad--you get a certificate that states it's a 100 hour course, which is all the public schools need to bump you up a pay level...and the price can't be beat! I finished mine in about 4 weeks, but it took me four hours to take the damned test (guess I should've actually studied)!

[tob55]

Took the course along with a friend...it is okay, but there are better options available...check your messages

[Scotticus]

It was decent if you're going into it without a ton of knowledge about teaching English. For someone with an English Ed background, it's a bunch of crap you already know, but, as someone pointed out before, you get a cert with it and it makes you look more attractive to employers in the ESL market.

[tob55]

As a professional educator, the sentiments of Scoticus in the previous post is completely accurate... Funny how people want to take the "so-called" teacher training courses thinking it will magically make them a teacher... No disrespect intended, but the courses offered by the vast majority of providers around the world pale greatly in comparison to the actual regiment of a professional teacher training programs at a University which takes 4+ years... Just remember you get what you pay for...

[Wondering]

I don't particularly care about what it teaches me since it is geared towards people who teach adults, and I don't and never will. I am taking it strictly to look good on my resume. I doubt that it can teach me more about teaching kids than I have learned in my 10 years of teaching them. My BA in English gave me more than enough of a foundation in grammar to teach English to children and what I don't know, I can always learn when I need to know it. I'm always trying to improve my teaching skills--through books, talking with people who I admire as teachers, and reading online and do not expect this certificate to actually help me in any applicable way. It just has to look pretty on my resume since I don't get a certificate for all the learning and studying I do on the side.

[tob55]

Your reasons are valid and to the point...Maybe you might look into a Young Learners course that would be specific to the area you instruct...Just as suggestion...

[Wondering]

I probably will do that once I have settled into my new job. I wish that it were possible to take JUST that...and that it was a 100 hour course. But, oh, no....they make you take the one that does nothing for your teaching skills FIRST before they will let you take the one that might actually improve you as a teacher. (Speaking strictly from the viewpoint of a children's teacher)

Oh well. I figure that in any case, having to take this course is good practice for putting up with things that make no sense and no matter where you are or what you do in life, you end up having to deal with illogical people, ideas, rules, etc. So, I guess in a way, I'm not just making my resume look pretty, but I'm also honing my skills at calmly working through red tape. And in any case, I'm not going to learn anything that will make me become a WORSE teacher. Exercising the brain is always a good thing. Practical and applicable is lovely, but I'm going to remind myself that this is yoga for my brain whenever I get frustrated.

[KYC]

Does the certificate indicates how many hours you completed? This was the information my recruiter gave me..




TEFL or TESOL Certificate

If you have a TESOL or TEFL certificate, the training time has to be appeared on the certificate. Otherwise you have to request a letter of proof that you did more than 100 hours training to get it from the organization of certificate.



I called the customer service rep at ITTT and asked if the training time was on the certificate and he said no...and I asked if I could obtain a letter of "proof" and he didn't know..and I asked if I could speak with someone who did and...yea lets say he wasn't helpful

[xCustomx]

The "tutor" (who doesn't do much of anything at all) explained to me that the certificate does state that the course is 100 hours in lenght. I gues it depends on who you ask.

[tob55]

All providers are supposed to keep records showing your academic work. This is why they have so many different activities during their courses, so they can create a paper trail of some sort. The verification of a 100 hour course or 120 hour course it dependent on the provider. If their book keeping iis not the best, then you risk not being approved whe you go to apply for a job...

The best thing is to know what is expected in terms of your work before you begin training...Issuing someone a 100 hour or 120 hour certificate for doing no work is fraud and the people who are simply selling certificates because it is a good way to make fast dollars will eventually be out of business just as soon as they have to start verifying the training of the people to whom they issued certificates...

[Jizzo T. Clown]

Yes, the certificate states that it's a 100-hour course. And no, the tutor is not necessary. Save yourself the extra $100 and buy some good reference books instead.

[Bear256]

I took this course and finished it last month. I didn't feel they were very upfront as they really aren't an online course but rather a course by email. They will only allow you to have two units at a time and I ended up on the weekends with no units to work on when I had the most time available. I was promised an additional course (either young learners or business English) but never heard another word from them. The final unit is a 500-700 word article (which they post the best in their newsletter or website or something like that) that has to be on one of the 100 or so topics they give you to pick from. They promise a 24 hour turn around (except for weekends and the 1st Friday of every month) and yet they took over 5 days to get around to looking over my final unit and telling me I passed the test. I have the certificate and have given a copy to my school but was so disgusted with them by the end that that is probably why they didn't keep their commitment and send the young learners course as advertised. I am presently taking another course based here in Korea that is truly 100% online (http://www.koredinco.com/). I can work at my own pace and fill these boring public school hours with something productive as far as getting another point of view and becoming (I hope) a better teacher. They were also cheaper than ITTT even at their normal price although I got in on the $200 special they were running.

I know this has run on and on with probably more that you wanted to know but I was so disgusted by the end of my ITTT course I think I enrolled in another just to get the bad taste out of my mouth!

[icnelly]