I can’t say how amazing Meryl was! She instantly made everybody feel comfortable and was so helpful and engaging. I was really nervous for this weekend and I don’t think it could have gone any better thanks to Meryl.

The content of the weekend itself was engaging and highly interactive, making the very long days doable- I would happily do this course 10 times over!

I actually learnt a lot of things despite having almost completed the online learning, I feel my confidence as a hopeful teacher has become much higher after the weekend course.

In terms of job assistance I am yet to know whether the assistance is there but Meryl made sure to assist as much as she could having got to know our plans over the weekend.

By Sunday evening I think everyone in the room felt a bit emotional as we had all got to know each other so well and now we are off to put things into action- really impressed.

Thank you Meryl, Emily 🙂

She has cost the Tefl Company a lost future investment and one has to ask, can the company afford this on a daily basis. And all because she didn’t realise that someone who takes the time to to expand on the disadvantages, as older male trying to ascertain from her if I can actually find employment from doing this course. All her responses where an excited Yes.

It is not quite a 18months since I have graduated. My advise to other males around their fifties and sixties, be warned This is definitely not an industry that easy to secure employment with nor is the Tefl.org likely to follow up with you after your investment in their company.

In my group we all had different plans and it seemed to cater for all.

A good introduction to the profession.

For me the only issue was the teaching practice in pairs. I think individual teaching would be better – pairing adds unnecessary pressure. However I understand the time restriction on a 2 day course.

Maybe you should not squeeze so much into 2 days, just do 3 days (or more)?

Despite this, I can recommend it to anyone interested, I enjoyed it.

The highlight of the course was the virtual classroom experience with Simon. He had great energy, perceptive feedback, and patience with students’ technical difficulties on Zoom. My only suggestion for improvement is limiting the class size to 8 or 9 students. We were pressed for time in delivering our practice lessons.

Overall, I finished the course much more confident in my teaching abilities and even more excited to start my TEFL journey!

Her teaching style was relaxed and demonstrated approaches her students could apply to their teaching.

All students got involved over the weekend, even where there were technical issues, but that added to the learning experience to how to work around these for on-line lessons.

The weekend was very interactive and enjoyable. Feedback for lesson presentation was constructive and felt I learnt a lot from Elizabeth which I can apply to my lesson planning and teaching going forward.

Thank you so much, Simon!

Richard was a fantastic instructor and he not only provided us with theoretical information and stories from his own experience but he also modeled a lot of techniques that we could use ourselves.

He injected humor and a personal touch into the lesson which made it a fun environment and really engaged all the students throughout the length of the two weekends.

The feedback from our demo teaching was constructive and confidence-building. I feel more ready to take on a variety of teaching settings than a felt before the class.

I had finished about half of my online course when I took this class and while the information contained in the course stood independently if I did change one thing it would have been to finish the entire course before the classroom portion, as there are some examples of teaching styles and small questions that would have been nice to be able to bring up.