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

4.6 Rating 9,765 Reviews

94 %

of reviewers recommend The TEFL Org

4.6

Based on 9,765 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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“It was good. Classrooms were sometimes hard to hear. Lessons shouldn’t be split into multiple sections for example: definition and examples can be put together instead of multiple separate 30 second videos.”

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Posted 1 year ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to review The TEFL Org, Baya! Your feedback regarding our course is very much appreciated as this helps us to improve our courses further. If you ever have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 1 year ago

“I know that it's a prestigious certificate but the certificate has no hologram,and more than that I had a tutor who should have supported me during this course and she did really nothing.no support at all and for one task she rejected my lesson plan 3 times and each time that I corrected my task she chanded her review. If at the first time she had written the reviews completely I wouldn't have to pay 1900 lira for extension time. I submitted all that task at the first time with 100 and passed them for the first time but 10 days for one task??? It was not fair at all with no support from the tutor. And even I showed all that tasks that she had rejected to great tesol,tefl, celta and delta teachers, every body told me your lesson plan is perfect why she rejected.it shows that it comes out of the creative mind.but she rejected 3 times,she answered late and I had to pay mor money and that was unfair. Really I have a big negative comment on the support... I loved this course but at last it was like a trouble for me. Sorry I complain a lot, but I am so sad about all the issues that I told. And we paid for the delivery of our certificate”

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Posted 1 year ago

Thank you so much for your review, Zeinabsadat! You can be sure that our certificate does include a hologram, but you need to request the hard copy first, as the PDF copy I see you just have at the moment could not possibly include a hologram. Please log into your account to request this free hard copy certificate where our printers can then create this quality document for you. Our tutors are certainly there to provide feedback on your assignments, but to receive support if you struggle you would have to contact them and ask questions first. You will have received their direct email address when you first enrolled. They are always happy to provide additional help when requested. As long as you submitted your course work on time, your tutor can certainly mark this even after a deadline passes, so there would have been no need to purchase an extension - you simply just needed to contact us. You also did not pay for the delivery of your certificate, as the initial certificate is included in the cost of your course. As you have not requested this certificate as yet, you can still do this by logging into your account. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the customer service team.

Posted 1 year ago

“I found the grammar course the most interesting and I learnt a lot from that module, however some of the assessments were not very effective as you could randomly select true or false and then the quiz would be marked and tell you if you were right/wrong, meaning on your next go - you could work out the answers even if you didn't understand the questions. This was particularly true for the Video Observation course where the questions asked you 'which lesson was better? the good one or the bad one?'”

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Posted 1 year ago

“The website was easy to use and the grammar portion was very helpful. I have 5+ years of teaching experience but even I did struggle in planning some of the lessons as the videos didn't always overlap with the quizzes/assignments. It can be difficult to plan a single lesson for an assignment and have to make assumptions about class ability/prior knowledge etc and the word limit can affect how much detail is put into answers. Overall, it was useful but I can imagine that people with no classroom experience would struggle with the course.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you so much for your feedback about The TEFL Org! Your feedback is very much appreciated as this helps us to improve our courses further. We wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“I'm happy I finished. However I found many punctual errors even in the lessons and my feedback from my assignments often lacked complete/full sentences. A lot of videos are somewhat outdated and could use updating.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Hi, Thank you for your review! We really appreciate you taking the time out to share your experience with us, and we will certainly pass on your feedback, as we always look to improve our courses further. We wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“- I thought that overall the course was good and very informative but some of the assignments were a bit vague for example the last one on the teaching large classes. - The advice and marking from the tutor was very helpful and clear.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thanks so much for the awesome feedback about The TEFL Org! We’re so glad to see that you enjoyed our course. Your feedback is certainly appreciated as well. We will always look to develop our courses further, so thanks again for this.

Posted 2 years ago

“I found the grammar course to be less helpful than I thought it might be, it was a very brief overview and really didn't go into much depth. After paying for the course, I was urged to buy a grammar book to learn on my own - which in my opinion defeats the purpose of the course. I found the methodology course to be quite outdated, overall I don't feel very prepared after taking the course.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for your great feedback on The TEFL Org. We are sorry that your experience at TEFL Org didn’t match your expectations. We try to focus most of our Teaching English as a Foreign Language courses on creating and delivering lessons, but do certainly cover some grammar as well. It is certainly not essential to buy a grammar book to complete our courses, but these books are recommended by our experienced TEFL teachers who still use these in class themselves. Your feedback is certainly appreciated, and I will pass this along to the team as we strive to develop our courses even further. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Posted 2 years ago

“I felt the course video/media content was quite outdated and didn't really hold my attention. The videos, for me, are dull compared in keeping with the now. It could do with a brighten up. There could be content showing how to do online lessons. I feel this is an important, missing aspect. My tutors were helpful and quick to respond.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thanks so much, Ines, for your feedback. We strive to provide the best customer service possible, and we're glad to hear that it's reflected in your experience. I will certainly pass along your feedback regarding our videos. Please also feel free to contact our Customer Service team who can discuss the courses we offer on teaching online. In the meantime, we wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“All in all a useful course and a very useful and recognized certificate. With some blind spots. (Which we all have. It’s okay. Really.) The TEFL Method is a rigid ESL structure that takes itself very seriously. There is no room in its dogma to admit or consider any other way of teaching English. As one winds their way through the course one is forced to be guided by TEFL’s inflexible rules, tediously and tirelessly laid out by the curriculum and reinforced by the Instructors and TAs. I found the homework feedback given to me by my TA Steve to be off putting and negative from the start, and after the first two assignments I stopped reading his responses altogether. (He began his second feedback to me thusly: “Do not do what you have written here”, which although admittedly has a certain amount of blunt humor, is unhelpful.) It was enough to know I passed the assignments and simply move on, without taking the time to read his feedback and take my lashes. He may have had some fantastic ideas from which I would have benefitted greatly. I wouldn’t know. The classroom videos of the course are excellent and illuminating. I enjoyed them and collected some good ideas. The website is buggy, but mostly functional. I often had to go back to a lesson and pretend to do it again for the Course to update it and mark it as completed. Upon completing a lesson, instead of moving me forward to the next lesson, the website would at times seem to freeze before taking me back to the main page of module, where I had to scroll down and find my correct lesson. A bit annoying. I am giving the 140-hour TEFL course 3/5 stars, because I did enjoy the material, whose subject matter (learning and teaching languages) I am passionate about. I did learn a lot. I just wish TEFL was more receptive to other ideas. For all its worthy insistence on Student Teaching Time, it felt like I was being preached at for 140 hours, including the 20-hour live module on Zoom, where questions were brushed aside, probably—and fairly—due to time constraints, and including my TA, who made it clear from the start that my class planning was to include only those ideas blessed in TEFL holy water. The TEFL Method is not so precious. There are many ways to learn a second language. There are as many ways to teach a second language. Humans learn things. It’s what we do. Alas, if you want the blessing of a recognized and renowned certification, you must enter the Church and take your lashes. Be sure to leave your own ideas and experiences at the Door.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback about The TEFL Org! We're glad to see that you found our course so useful and are benefiting from our world recognized certificate. Our tutors do certainly follow a strict structure which ensures that our courses continue to meet the accreditation criteria. As the most accredited TEFL course provider in the UK it means that schools all around the world know a TEFL Org qualified teacher will be a great asset to them. We really appreciate you taking the time out to share your feedback, as we will always look to improve our courses even further. Thanks again and all the best with your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“The course was interesting and covered alot. I must be honest though, and say that the videos of classes were not very realistic. About 8 people in a class and all spoke pretty good English already not sure exactly what level they were. This did not help me much when it came to writing lesson plans for pre intermediate and intermediate. Also the Methodology video was about 'Clothes' ...easy right ? but it didn't help me at all to write a lesson plan for Past Continuous Interrupted for that module 😕!!! I teach 3hour long classes for Pre and Entry 1 with over 10 in most groups. The feedback is very limited but having said that they do get back within the 48hours. I'm guessing it's the best around but has a few areas for development .”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for your review of The TEFL Org, Jacqueline! We strive to provide the best courses we can, so your feedback is very much appreciated. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Thanks again and all the best with your TEFL career!

Posted 2 years ago

“The lessons were clear and useful. However, within the modules there were some spelling mistakes in the text, which was very unprofessional, you would think there would be proofreaders. In some of the video lessons the audio is extremely quiet and hard to hear. The transcriptions of the videos aren't actually transcriptions except for in the Telephone Teaching Course. The transcriptions are a sentence saying what the video is of, not the words spoken. The combination of the lack of transcription and bad audio made some of the videos incomprehensible to me. The courses themselves did teach a lot about how to teach English and the necessary preparations for classes.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you Angela for your review! Your feedback is very much appreciated as this helps us to improve our courses even further. We wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“I found it quite tedious as I had to repeat some assignments more than 5 times with different feedback each time.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Hi, We’re sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy the course. Our tutors do certainly follow a strict structure which ensures that our courses continue to meet the accreditation criteria. As the most accredited TEFL course provider in the UK it means that schools all around the world know a TEFL Org qualified teacher will be a great asset to them. Thank you for your feedback, and please feel free to reach out to us with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you wish to share.

Posted 2 years ago

“1. Time to redo "telephone class". No one teaches over the phone anymore. I've been using PPP structure in zoom classes for years now and it works very well. It's obvious that this unit is rooted in the previous century and please don't teach Skype and other technologies (looks like product placement). 2. add comments to the videos so we know what is going on in the class (things like: eliciting, PPP - concept testing, etc. 3. The eight steps of a full PPP class are presented in Unit 12, module 2. Language Review is part of a full PPP class in this model. Not only it is listed as a step (see below the steps I copied from your online material) but also in the video corresponding to this step the teacher says: “So just to finish off, I want to see what you can remember from the lesson about the new words that we've learned. So can anyone remember the pattern, or the word he used to describe this design?” But when I did the assignment I got feedback telling me that Language Review is not part of a PPP class and more importantly why it is not included in the task? Lead-in (setting the context) Presentation - Eliciting the TL Presentation - Concept checking Presentation - Drilling Presentation - Board work Practice Production Language review 4. The course content is confusing for the following reason: In Unit 12, module 2 Concept Checking is set to be the first part of the Presentation and it is clearly explained to be an attempt to check how much of a target language the students already know. "Concept checking questions" are not explained or introduced anywhere in the course but they appear in the final written task and are expected to be employed at the end of the presentation. The objective here is to check how well the students have grasped the TL through the presentation. To make it less confusing the concept questions should be introduced and explained in the course body and it should be made clear that there are two separate occasions on which a teacher checks the grasp of the concept. 5. Video observation course is a complete waste of time. The bad class is bad acting and the quizzes can be done without even watching the videos as the answers are so obvious. One possible way to improve this would be to get rid of the bad class videos and add comments to the good class ones. Comments should be about what the teacher is doing so one could identify activities/stages.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for your review, Tomasz. We certainly appreciate your detailed feedback. We are still finding many people around the world don't have easy access to the internet or still use Skype etc. We try to make sure that our courses cover this so that teachers have the tools to provide English lessons to everyone, no matter where they are in the world. We usually receive excellent reviews about our video observation course, which is especially enjoyed by new teachers, so this will certainly remain within our course content. You can be sure that I will pass on your feedback to our team though, as we will always look to improve our courses further. Thanks again, Tomasz

Posted 2 years ago

“I just finished the 120-hour course with a virtual weekend class, and the virtual weekend class was by far the best part of the experience. I haven't taken any other TEFL certificates to compare this to, but the course materials are unnecessarily long-winded, occasionally contradictory, and scattered with typos. Assignments were confusingly laid out. I felt like I was fighting against the course structure sometimes. They package up short modules like Business English and Large Classes into the larger certificate, but these contain almost no useful information (certainly nothing you can't find from free resources). I wish I hadn't had to sign up for these to get the certificate. The Grammar and Methodology (and some of the Video Observation) modules have a lot of information, albeit laid out in a way that can be hard to take notes from, but I would mostly recommend the live course. You get a chance to deliver a lesson, observe others delivering lessons, and then get real-time feedback from a tutor. I did the live course after completing the asynchronous course, which I would recommend doing, as it gave me the chance to implement the teaching methodology I'd learned.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback about The TEFL Org! It's great to hear that you had such a positive experience in our classroom course. Our main courses certainly cover everything a teacher would need to help them step into their first class. We therefore cover many topics, such as teaching large classes, so our teachers can feel prepared in any classroom situation. This also ensures we follow a structure which meets the accreditation criteria. Thank you again for your feedback, and we wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“The course was fine. I found the course material easy to retain and work through. I had a horrible experience with my tutor. When I read reviews I found similar experiences to mine, so I don't think it is a one off problem. My tutor, Asif, graded assignments very subjectively. The brief for assignments were vague at best, however they gave a specific reuberic for what the assignment needed to have or not have. My tutor would give feedback asking for things the brief specifically said not to include or didn't talk about at all. His feedback was highly specific to his opinion and style of teaching. Which your course says they want individual teachers and are there to enhance unique teaching styles not create teaching robots. I found myself learning things a teacher should and shouldn't do during the course and then having my tutor act contrary to what I was learning. Because so much of his feedback was subjective I had a hard time revising assignments. What looked to me like an appropriate activty for teaching a concept, to him, needed a revision bevause it wasn't what he would do. I got to the point where I just asked him whay he want to lesson plan to look like, bevause unless it was a lesson plan that he would write he wasn't going to pass it. I was not impressed with my tutor and feel like the assignment portion of the course needs stricter rubric that tutors adhere to and only grade from, or the individual tutor needs to design the assignment according to their grading rubic and it needs to be given to the student prior to the assignments. I also wish there was more transparency on the course itself. I am teaching online one-on-one and the course I took almost exclusively focused on in-person large classroom teaching. However, there was nothing to indicate that would be the case prior to selecting this course. There a lot of options out there for telf certification and I would probably choose a different one.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you so much for your feedback, Chelsea. We're so sorry to hear that you had a discouraging experience with your tutor's feedback. Our tutors do follow a strict structure which ensures that our courses continue to meet the accreditation criteria. As the most accredited TEFL course provider in the UK it means that schools all around the world know a TEFL Org qualified teacher will be a great asset to them. I will certainly pass on your feedback, as this will help us improve our services further. Thanks again, and best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“It was doable! The real review begins if and when I get a job!”

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Posted 2 years ago

Dear Evan, Thank you for your feedback about The TEFL Org, and congratulations on completing your course! As you have received a certificate from the highest accredited TEFL course provider in the UK, I am sure this will open many new doors for you! With our course, you also have lifelong access to our TEFL Org Jobcentre, where you will be able to exclusively access many TEFL positions both internationally and online. We also encourage an active Facebook and forum community, which include weekly webinars, blogs and a podcast. We’re not able to search for TEFL jobs for you but we will certainly offer advice where we can, so please don't hesitate to get back in touch with us. We wish you the very best of luck in your TEFL journey!

Posted 2 years ago

“I loved the course itself, the tutor was also helpful. In some cases I was suggested to check the community, but I felt it was not active enough. I needed a teacher to student communication for most of my doubts. Besides this being a non-native speaker, I've found it to be a little bit demoralising in some places. There's no guidance for people like me to move forward, so much prejudice and blocks. But I really intend to work abroad, but I don't know how to move forward. I can't keep buying courses, I need to find some work.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for your review, Chiroprotim. We strive to provide the best service and experience to all our students. We train thousands of students a year, native and non-native speakers, who go on to live and work abroad successfully with their TEFL.Org qualification. Please feel free to reach out to our team who will be happy to offer further advice on finding work. We're always here to help!

Posted 2 years ago

“Hi! I recently just purchased the tefl certification course and have not started anything yet. I just keep getting emails to review the course that I completed..but I haven’t. Once I have successfully completed the course I will review. Hopefully more due diligence will me made when identifying who finished the course and who has not.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Hi, thank you for taking the time to send us your review. This is certainly something we are looking into, so thank you for bringing this to our attention. We hope you enjoy your course and should you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Posted 2 years ago

“The course I took was wholly online and self-paced. On one hand this makes learning the methods of TEFL extremely convenient, although without genuine experience of teaching it does feel fundamentally limited in it's usefulness. Furthermore the course is not so much designed to teach as it is designed to present information - actual learning will have to be self-studied. Whilst the information is clearly explained - I never had trouble understanding the content - the course effectively boils down to a set of Youtube tutorials, quizzes (which are difficult to get wrong) and assignments. There is little initiative within the course to integrate, revise and practice what you've learnt, save for the assignments which ask you to produce lesson plans. To really maximise what one recieves from this course, you'll need to revise, self-study and practice elsewhere. Ironically the course does not practice the maxims that it is teaching!! In short, an acceptable course that will teach you TEFL, but not enough to prepare you to be an English teacher.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Hi Rowan, Thank you so much for your feedback on The TEFL Org! We really appreciate you taking the time to let us know what you think of our service. It's great to hear that you've had positive experiences with us. It sounds like you chose one of our online only courses, so perhaps one of our combined courses would have been more suitable, as these include the teaching practices that you mention were missing in your course. Our hands-on teaching sessions grant the opportunity to plan and deliver short lessons, nicely putting into practice, and consolidating the theory studied online. If you ever have any questions regarding this, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Thanks again for your feedback, and all the best with your TEFL career!

Posted 2 years ago

“Sometimes the quiz doesn't quite seem to follow from the module. I am struggling with the reported speech as there are a few possible answers and I can't seem to grasp exactly which version you want.”

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Posted 2 years ago

Thank you for your feedback, Elaine! Please don't hesitate to contact your tutor direct, who will be happy to support you through the course. We wish you the best of luck with your course!

Posted 2 years ago

The TEFL Org is rated 4.6 based on 9,765 reviews