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Name: The TEFL Org
Address: Suite Number 4, 8 Church Street, Inverness, Highland
Rating: 4.59

4.6 Rating 9,685 Reviews

94 %

of reviewers recommend The TEFL Org

4.6

Based on 9,685 reviews

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About The TEFL Org:

Established in 2008, The TEFL Org is the UK's most experienced and accredited TEFL course provider offering classroom, online & combined TEFL courses.

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The TEFL Org 5 star review on 14th May 2025

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I found the courses very easy to navigate. One thing I found extremely difficult was communication with the tutor. I found it extremely difficult when I was confused with a question and couldn’t find anything relatable on the forum. Communication is key and I really think you need to work on this between student and tutor. I became very upset and frustrated especially when I was nearing the end of my 7 day add on and thought I may run out of time and need to buy more due to the tutor not being clear.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“It is a very informative course. However, four weeks is not enough, especially if you don't want to extend the course. Furthermore, by the time I received the recommended grammar books for the handbook, I was three weeks into the course.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I am still in the grammar course which can naturally get a bit boring as i have to go through the whole basic stuff which i might already know. Other than that I do have some teaching experience. But I am still motivated to complete the course and get certified.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Although I do enjoy the course and feel it performs as hoped, it has the very annoying problem of constantly going back to the course overview screen when I click to the next page. This tends to be rather disruptive to the flow of using the site and the learning experience in general. I'd also suggest putting a little more emphasis on 'the schwa sound' perhaps. There was next to no explanation given on this. Not a real big problem as I simply googled it of course.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“The program is very outdated or simply poor quality in video. Maybe it has to do that my primary job is in Film but it really turns me away from watching any videos. It seems like it was recorded in 2002. I also think there are unnecessary amount of modules. One module might just be a 30 second video saying what we will be discussing. That can be one sentence in the larger portion.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Some quiz questions in Grammar seem unnecessary. Too simple, repetitive, and perfunctory. I mean, for example, practicing present continuous form is necessary for actual ESL beginner students but not for TEFL students. What's crucial is when to use the form as opposed to other tenses, right? I suggest that you review the quiz questions, cut them off or replace them with more meaningful exercises. Thank you.”

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Posted 4 years ago

Hello Hyojung, Thank you for taking the time to review our course. I'll pass your feedback on to our academic team which will help develop future courses. Kind regards, Alan, TEFL adviser

Posted 4 years ago

“Hi, I have generally appreciated most of the modules on teaching. However, I think the grammar course is tedious and treats you as if you are the esl student. Perhaps that's the point, but it feels infantilizing and drab pretty much the whole time. Second, you should definitely have one of your people go through the whole course because it's littered with grammatical and spelling errors. This is not a particularly good look for an english teaching program.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“It's an easy course to navigate, however I feel some of the quizzes are too easy to just get the right answer even without understanding.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I like Kelsey - she's the best part of the course (I'm only on the grammar portion so far). I don't understand why some of the videos have the other instructor (the male) appear intermittently. The half hour video sessions are tedious to watch and not helpful. I also think the video quality is sub-standard (bad micing and low resolution). I'd review all content to make sure it flows a little better and in a few years redo the entire course with better production to make the experience more seamless. Watch the LinkedIn Learning videos for inspiration. That's the kind of quality production and content TEFL is capable of and needs to be. I do like the course and am looking forward to completing it. Thank your for your time.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Reviewers/tutors need to be more aware of the course work questions when marking a written assignment. I should not have to correct and resubmit an assignment because my assignment is “missing” a specific part of the lesson, that was never listed in the original question/rules of the assignment. Also, a reviewer/tutor needs to become more aware of the differences between “there”, “their”, and “they’re”, when submitted a remark on my assignment.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The course is good enough however I find my self getting bored very quickly while watching the videos. Maybe this is because I am already training to be a teacher so a lot of what is being taught is second nature to me. One thing that I am finding frustrating is that all sample lessons are videos of a really advanced class. There is no variation in levels or abilities. I found it strange that i was expected to do a lesson plan for elementary lesson in which students have only a few words when all sample videos of are students who can hold a conversation.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The questions of the Assignments are poorly structured and to be honest having Assignment with similar questions ie PPP etc really complicate the situation.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Course was harder than I anticipated. The tutor assistant was in no way helpful.. Too few examples re the assignments. I would not recommend.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I would rather give it a score of approximately 65%-70%, but the five-star rating system doesn't allow that. (It would approximately be 3.25/5 to 3.5/5.) There is some good stuff to be had with TEFL.org indeed. Videos are generally clear, texts and charts are generally clear, tutors respond quickly regarding your written assignments, chat employees respond quickly, an employee responded quickly to an e-mail, the prices don't seem very bad, etc. But sometimes the videos and texts could use some improvement: sometimes there were errors or vagueness. Sometimes there were nasty trick questions or vague questions on tests. Sometimes information was unnecessarily repeated. Sometimes there could have been much better coherence and progression of information. Sometimes there was no response from the company when asking a question. I wish the resulting TEFL certificate would look better: the way it looks now, it kind of looks cheap. Yes, I am somewhat critical, but have good intent and wish to be fair and truthful. I would still recommend TEFL.org, because they give you very good ideas regarding metholodogy in different circumstances with pretty clear and pretty good content. It's just that, if you are critical/serious about things, you might spot errors or missed opportunities. Overall it's still worth it, if you want to get a TEFL certificate and get some good ideas. You must of course put as much into it as possible, and try to immerse yourself in their methods and so forth. That together with their course should work just fine. I would say, "Go, and take their TEFL course."”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I find some of the video teaching examples to be unhelpful, and wonder how students can understand the contentxwhen taught in the manner presented. How the students are supposed to understand the Scottish instructor, is beyond me.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The 120 hours programme lacks a lot of useful, important information in the grammar part. It says 120 hours, but if you actually go and look for the information yourself, it takes much longer. Having completed the grammar part, I don't feel confident to teach anyone English, due to the superficiality of the information provided.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“My tutor gives conflicting feedback and that’s not helpful. I feel stuck and without guidance.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I felt that there was too much non-video-content, many of the videos simply said "now you've read that whole section on x think about it", which in my is lazy. There should have been more video content. Also the quizzes were too vague. A video saying activities and STT are good for the students and question of "Activities can help students ______?" (for example) (Grow, learn, read, engage, walk" where most of them are grammatically correct, those words were not used in the videos and there is only one answer leads to brute forcing of the answers. This kind of thing is frustrating, a waste of time and doesn't help you understand the subject matter any better. Many entire quizzes have this kind of theme. It doesn't show that you've understood the topic to guess one of 7 that could be correct. Likewise, there were questions like "The teacher made good use of the _____?" (TL, running, walking if, fish). Questions where only one answer made sense forcing you into the right answer. That doesn't demonstrate that I know the answer, that simply shows that I can illuminate answers that make absolutely no sense.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“My in person 3-day training in Edinburgh was excellent - top quality and I have absolutely no complaints about it! The online classes however I have been pretty disappointed in. The content is fine but the videos take a really long time to load, are hard to navigate, and don't have options for changing the speed of listening which makes reviewing videos or going through topics you already know tedious. Given how much you pay for the online classes I strongly feel that the platform needs updating and made mobile app friendly. I have bought an online Chinese course (HSK Zero to Hero) that is run on Teachable that is very simple to use and would be ideal. The lack of ease of use and ease of access to the Tefl.org videos has resulted in me failing to finish the course by the expiry date and by the expiry date of the extension that I bought. The interface could, I think, be made enjoyable rather than tedious to use.”

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Posted 5 years ago

Hello Margarita, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Great to hear you enjoyed the classroom element of your course! In terms of the online part, I'm really sorry you encountered issues with the video content and accessibility. I'll make sure to feed this back to our IT team for future development. Kind regards, Alan, TEFL Adviser

Posted 5 years ago

“I was locked out of the TEFL Grammar course 24 hours before it was set to end. This prevented me from completing my course and having my certification on time for an important job interview. The quizzes in the Grammar course also need to be looked over again. There are some mistakes and only allowing certain answers to be typed a certain way or they're marked wrong. Overall, it was a good course. Thank you.”

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Posted 5 years ago

Hi Courtney, Thank you for the review of our 30-hour Online Grammar Course. I'm sorry to hear that you were locked out of the course just before it was due to expire - I understand how frustrating that must have been. I'll pass your feedback on to our Academic and IT teams re: answers to quizzes. Kind regards, Alan, TEFL Adviser

Posted 5 years ago

The TEFL Org is rated 4.6 based on 9,685 reviews