Comments on: CIEE TEFL

By: Marissa Kramer

Marissa Kramer — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 03:37:46 +0000

Really thorough and informative material and easy to navigate website! Took up more of my time than I expected, but it was worth it. The online course, in addition to Destination TEFL, has made me feel sufficiently prepared for teaching in the classroom.

By: Alissa Balano

Alissa Balano — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:21:51 +0000

I found the CIEE TEFL course very useful and believe it provided me with practical and valuable training. I feel much better prepared to begin teaching having taken this course.

By: Gillaine

Gillaine — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:51:38 +0000

This is as good as the TEFL program could possibly be. I found some topic so dry, like cultural diversity but the main content of grammar and what to expect in the classroom is good. I think things like cultural diversity are hard to teach and more of something to be assessed in a different cultural. More grammar would be nice!

I did not like peer reviews. Remove that as apart of the grading because we are all going through the same course to know who is doing it properly and who isn’t is the instructors duty. Hard to assess something you’re currently learning.

By: Whitney Hubbell

Whitney Hubbell — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:45:37 +0000

This course was very organized and thorough, and helped me to learn what I need to know in order to be an effective teacher of English as a foreign language. The content is interesting and informative and is broken up into reasonably-sized chunks. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone interested in working as an ESL/EFL teacher.

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:49:52 +0000

CIEE’s 150 hour course provides valuable theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to start teaching English as a foreign language. I am very glad I took the course because I feel much more prepared to start teaching English. I never noticed or was bothered by the online format. I never felt isolated from my teacher or my classmates. My favorite parts of the course were the written discussion forums and the weekly live tutorial sessions. My professor was very accessible, and would respond quickly to my questions.

The course is quite fast-paced. There are two deadlines per week. So, although you can complete the course material on your own time, there is no time to slack off. Indeed, there is a ton of material to process. There are ten units. Frequently, review is mixed in with new material. Now that my course has ended, I am grateful that I can still access all of the power points for another three months. I will definitely need to keep reviewing all that I learned.

The practicum is very useful; I’m glad that it’s a requirement. It is really up to each student to look for a practicum for his or herself. CIEE helps a little.

By: Katherine Pace

Katherine Pace — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:11:22 +0000

I thought this course was amazing! Just the right thing to prepare me for the classroom. Unless you have an education degree already, I think this should be mandatory before going abroad to teach with CIEE!

By: Caitlin Roland

Caitlin Roland — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:16:01 +0000

Wonderful TEFL course! It was well worth the time and effort that you must put in. It will be so helpful in my new teaching position in Spain. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to receive their certification. You will be well prepared in any English teaching position.

By: Chauncey Grossley

Chauncey Grossley — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:14:18 +0000

I would have to say that the course itself was extremely educational while also fun – which is not a word I normally use in the context of online courses. The course content was paced relatively well – although some areas felt like they could have used more variety in the way units were presented – some lessons did a very good job of varying between Read-Only lessons, the Voiced lessons, Videos, and interspersing quizzes throughout, but some were heavier on Read-Only, which was *faster* to complete, but less impactful in how well I learned them overall.

The practicum requirements were fair and easy to accomplish, although it might have been worth recommending getting students right off into looking for Practicums in case their departure times were soon, or their schedules too busy.

My instructor was phenomenal and cared tremendously about getting back to us and hearing our own feedback during the course.

I ultimately did not go for the job placements that CIEE helped get me in contact with, but the men and women responsible for helping me prepare CVs and other materials to help interview with schools were incredibly helpful and responsive, and I would recommend this program to anyone.

I can only speak to the quality of resources the online course offered, which were many and invaluable, and I intend to use them and review many of the going forward.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:18:49 +0000

The course exceeded my expectations in almost all respects. The only thing I had an issue with was the dashboard used. The materials were not always compatible with Mac software.

By: Frank Davis

Frank Davis — Wed, 11 May 2016 21:19:04 +0000

THERE NEEDS TO BE a break, a week long break, at some point in this process. This would be to give those still in college a rest from 10weeks of excruciating work loads. Not to mention this stuff gets very dry and boring so a week off should help. I recommend before or after week 6.

Also, I was hoping to learn more about teaching than I did. You don’t tell us where or how to begin teaching English, i.e.(grammar, vocab, sentence structure) that was not explained. I was overall not disappointed but not hugely satisfied by this $1000 course. And as of 05/11/16 when I’m writing this, I have yet to recieve my placement.

On a brighter note, the grammar lessons were helpful and great review.