Description
Christian TEFL is an online TEFL/TESOL training organisation enabling you to gain a TEFL certificate and use it in a mission setting if you wish.
We have partnered with some major mission organisations, such as Interserve so you can apply directly for optional worldwide TEFL mission placement through our site. Others are teaching English and earning with their certificate.
Christian TEFL offers professional TEFL courses that were created by Global English TESOL courses, one of the oldest and most established online TESOL organisations in existence.
Christian TEFL is registered with the charity commission in the UK. Trainees decide on how the profits are divided between the mission partners.
Courses
Course Types
Online TEFL Courses
Course Lengths
Mini Courses (<30 hours)
Short Courses (40-100 hours)
Standard (120-140 hours)
Long Courses (150+ hours)
Certifications
TEFL / TESL / TESOL
Specialist Courses
Teaching Online
I completed the 120 hour TEFL Premier distance learning course a couple of years ago and found it very helpful. I learned a huge amount, especially as I’d never studied English grammar etc before, despite being a native speaker.
The tutor and office staff were always very helpful, whether answering queries, giving insightful feedback or helping with problems that came up – and quickly, too.
I didn’t do any practice teaching because it was distance learning but I was, and am, teaching locally.
I also didn’t receive any job assistance – but only because I didn’t need any and had more than enough to do already, but given how helpful they have always been with everything else, I’m sure any job assistance they’d give would be great.
One of the good things about enforced lockdown during the last year has been the Spotlight Live TESOL courses online. These have been a fantastic way to improve my skills and confidence and encourage me in my teaching, especially as all my lessons are currently via Zoom.
I’ve done 4 of the Spotlight courses and they’ve all been extremely helpful in different ways – especially the Zoom Basics course. As the courses are so short it’s comparatively easy to fit in the online study at home and it’s been great to focus on only one thing at a time and take time to ask questions and find out more about the areas in question. The tutors have all been quick to answer any questions very helpfully and the Zoom sessions at the end of each course have rounded each one off nicely.
I found it very encouraging to see other Christians teaching English as outreach with their churches in multiple places, but as there was only a short prayer (at the beginning of some of the Zoom sessions), I think that the Zoom sessions would be encouraging and helpful for non-Christians too.
Being able to prepare a short presentation to share with other students during the Zoom session helped to focus on the most important things and being on the receiving end of other people’s presentations was also helpful as it gave a bit of an idea of what it must be like as a student and helped, as a group, to iron out any problems that cropped up, e.g. with using breakout rooms within Zoom etc – which is the point of the Zoom session – to help increase skills in practice.
If you’re not sure whether English teaching is for you, then I’d strongly recommend one of these short courses as a taster.
I don’t write reviews very often, but the Christian TEFL team have done, and do, provide such an excellent service that I want to sing their praises.