The Program

TEFL is not a good program! On the website it says that you will get reimbursed up to $750 depending on how much your flight costs. There is no mention of having to teach 180 hours to begin with nor that working these 180 hours is a stipulation of how much you are reimbursed. Oh, and you do not find the 180 hours to work, but they find it for you. So, if they don't find you enough hours you don't get the money. The jobs that they do find you, you don't necessarily keep because the school has to like you and your teaching methods. They have to like your teaching methods even though you are not supposed to have any teaching experience, according to the website. They "prepared" us for teaching by giving us five days of teaching methods and having us prepare short lessons. So after having no previous teaching experience, we are expected to go into a classroom full of students and know exactly how to make them like us and how to get the material across in an easily understood fashion. I guess some people are just natural teachers, and I am not one of them.

The underlying message: If you ever consider going with TEFL, don't! DO NOT trust ANYTHING on the TEFL website!