Comments on: TEFL Toulouse

By: Paul Radcliffe

Paul Radcliffe — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:53:06 +0000

It’s a brilliant way to teach people English. Very effective and often fun! And the teachers were all great and very helpful!

The location of the school is in a very nice part of Toulouse and walking distance to the centre – Le Capitole.

Jonathan the director has been very supportive and generous with his time in helping me with my post-Brexit French visa application. And Dimitri the administrator is also very kind and very helpful!

I can highly recommend it!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:27:37 +0000

TEFL TOULOUSE required a good amount of commitment to study and practice, as I believe all TEFL courses do at this high level of quality training. But I found it to be very enjoyable! Everyone in my group enjoyed it! It’s a brilliant way to teach people English. Very effective! And the teachers are all very nice and very helpful and great teachers themselves. I can highly recommend it!

By: Gaurang Ratnaparkhi

Gaurang Ratnaparkhi — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:31:49 +0000

A very intense course of 4 weeks. But it was worth it. The course is very well structured. The teachers are very competent. They also put me in touch with different people for job openings right after the course. I already have a couple of offers I am looking at. Thank you TEFL Toulouse

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:53:27 +0000

PROS:

TEFL Toulouse was a great introductory program to teaching English—and the team is truly fantastic. What’s most helpful about this program is that they help you look for a job, offering materials to write a proper CV, a cover letter, what to ask in an interview, what to charge, etc.

And they truly do mean it when they offer job guidance for life! I took the TEFL course at the end of 2021 but wasn’t ready to become a teacher until the beginning of 2024. I emailed Jonathan asking if he would be a reference on a Thursday; he answered immediately saying yes and telling me about a few schools that were hiring; I had an interview on that Friday; and I started the job the next Monday! Wouldn’t have known about this opportunity without their help!

CONS:

The TEFL course puts a lot of stress on teaching classes for children, which is helpful—but we students taking the TEFL course are not children ourselves, which means we may have jobs/responsibilities/etc. and may need to check emails during the day. Since we are clients paying for a course and not children taking a class, I believe this should be respected.

OVERALL:

Recommend!

By: Daisy Fillbrook

Daisy Fillbrook — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:02:57 +0000

TEFL Toulouse team, having the TEFL qualification and experience in teaching helped land me a job as a Centre Manager for a language school in the UK. I wanted to say a huge thank you for helping me land my dream job! I loved my month in Toulouse and remain friends with the people I met on this course. My confidence has improved massively as a result of the training and I’m so glad I can continue to use these skills in my career. Thank you Jonathan for remaining in touch and helping me out even 2 years after the course. Would recommend this course to everyone looking for an international experience, a taste of teaching and a chance to develop these skills in a safe and supportive environment (in the South of France no less!)

By: Julia Erdelyi

Julia Erdelyi — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:08:43 +0000

I did the course with TEFL Toulouse this year in July. The course was one of the most intense 4 weeks of my life. The mornings are full of teaching theory, grammar and phonology, followed by teaching practice sessions and feedback in the afternoon. We all had to absorb a lot of information in a short amount of time. For me the group dynamic definitely made it easier, we helped each other get through the initial fears and despite the hard work, we had a lot of fun together!

So if you are wondering, every minute of it was worth it. Jonathan, Helen, Julie and Dimitri are all highly knowledgeable and they all made themselves available in a very generous way. The course was very well-structured and the content was engaging. I started teaching about a month after the course in Belgium and now I constantly find myself referring back to the advice and teachings of the trainers. 🙂

Prior to the course I was a bit scared being there as a non-native speaker, but looking back I realize what an advantage it really was! So fellow NNSs, please don’t let this ever stop you from applying!

I strongly recommend this TEFL course to anyone who is serious about teaching!

By: Victor Licona

Victor Licona — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:31:04 +0000

It was a very intense and fun course. Every morning I couldn’t wait to go to the Language Center. The course is very well-planned and thorough. You’ll learn many aspects of teaching and of English. My favorite lessons were the phonology sessions.

Jonathan, Helen, Julie and Dimitri are very competent and share willingly not only their vast knowledge, but also the passion for what they do. Their guidance and advice is precious; not just for lesson planning during the course, but for teaching English afterwards as a career.

I definitely recommend this course to anyone seriously thinking about teaching English.

By: Mathilde Bordes

Mathilde Bordes — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 06:54:53 +0000

I strongly recommend this TEFL course to anyone (native or none native) who is aiming to become an english teacher in France or abroad. This intensive one month course is the best to get you started. If you are in a quality approach with giving lessons but at the same time you are not willing to spend years studying, TEFL TOULOUSE is the best place for you!!

This course is really complete. We do a recap. of the main grammar points (parts of speech, tenses, phrasal verbs…) at the same time than learning how to teach grammar. As well, we learn teaching theory (learner styles, teachers styles, classroom management, …). At last every afternoon, we have teaching practice with real students. English tutors help us to improve our lesson planning skills before the course start, watch the lesson and then debrief with us. This is all really helpfull.

Be prepared to work hard during one full month. You are given homework every week added to 2 lessons of 1 hour each to organise and 2 grammar exams to prepare.

I am really thankful to Jonathan for having shared his knowlege with us.

By: NEZAR ABDELJALIL

NEZAR ABDELJALIL — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:25:52 +0000

I would strongly recommend TEFL TOULOUSE to anyone who is seeking a professionnalism, accredited experience. Most theoretic courses are taught by the Director Jonathan Davies who has a rich experience teaching English. And makes teaching approaches seem easy. the course planning is devided into two. The mornings are devoted to teaching approaches and techniqes, while the afternoons are for teaching practices. Afterwards, the feedback sessions after teaching practice which are motivating and their aim is to improve the trainee’s teaching methods rather than to criticise it. Morover, the staff is friendly and provides teaching advice concerning lesson plans. If I were to do the TEFL certificate again, I would definitely choose TEFL TOULOUSE again.

By: Mary Nicholson

Mary Nicholson — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:14:21 +0000

I took the one month TEFL Toulouse course in September this year. The school is small and located in a quiet neighborhood, next to the beautiful Jardin de Plantes. I loved the course, it is very intense so expect to be working hard from morning until late evening for a full month. Also allow for 4/5 days extra at the end of the course to finish the final project, which is done in your own time at home. The course is divided into 2 parts, the theoretical part, which covers grammar and many other theoretical ideas about teaching (this takes place in the morning) and the practical part, which takes place in the afternoons, and consists of making lesson plans, teaching and lesson critique. The staff are very professional, knowledgeable and friendly. Overall the course content is varied and extremely engaging. Be prepared to absorb a lot of information in a short amount of time! I had some experience of teaching going in and left feeling well armed and confident to apply for jobs. We were given plenty of job advise and hand outs to assist us with the daunting prospect of finding work. We covered the basics of teaching business English but I would have perhaps benefited from doing some more practical work in this regard. That said I highly recommend doing the course at TEFL Toulouse if you are serious about becoming an English foreign language teacher.