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The Costa Rica TEFL course consists of 160 hours of TEFL training and a minimum of 10 practice teaching hours with Costa Rican ELL children and adults. Located in beautiful Samara beach, a unique town where you can experience beach life and learn Spanish.
The Costa Rica TEFL/TESOL faculty is combining its 30+ years of experience in training TEFL teachers to offer you a unique opportunity to earn a TEFL certificate that will qualify you to teach TEFL / TESOL in Costa Rica or anywhere in the world. Take advantage of our free job placement assistance and join our network of TEFL teachers teaching all over the world.
Get in touch to find out more, or ask for an application today. We offer a balanced program which focuses on key areas for being a successful TEFL / TESOL teacher: teaching methodologies, teaching techniques, learning styles, classroom management, classroom adaptation, culture in the classroom, effective lesson planning, effective grammar teaching, creativity in the classroom and more. In your free time you can enjoy the local beaches, learn to surf, kayak, swim, horseback ride, canopy tour, scale the waterfalls or just sit and enjoy the amazing daily sunsets.
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Unfortunately, this was not a positive experience for me.
The location and standard of teaching was great.
I had some difficulties with equipment failures. My laptop completely broke down and I also had trouble with my phone.
This put me behind on course content and resulted in me becoming anxious.
Being in a stressed and anxious state is not conducive to learning new material.
I generally didn’t feel supported by the coordinators.
I did ask for help and expressed concerns about falling behind on content.
Barbara, did spend some time with me on computers supplied by the school. Only one of them worked and the other was extremely slow and difficult to navigate.
I was not aware of some of the programming I was required to know and could not receive the help I needed to understand this.
I was able to obtain a new laptop. Chantal referred me to a local computer shop.
When I received the new computer, it was configured in Spanish.
I was already behind on a compacted course and felt the additional stress of learning the new configurations was too much pressure.
I decided to drop out of the course in the hope I could pick up with another group.
Barbara was receptive to this but the logistics of this became too difficult.
It’s worth mentioning that once I had decided to postpone the course all support and contact ceased.
I became ill with dysentery due to the water and made one of the coordinators aware of this.
There was no follow ups about my welfare.
I received support from staff at the Blue Iguana and another student colleague who also dropped out of school.
His reasoning for stepping out was similar to myself.
I think most of the students were able to complete the course.
The school did offer support in finding work.
It was extremely disappointing for me not to be able to achieve my goals.
The lack of support and indifference towards my situation has left me feeling damaged.
My preparation, I thought, was good.
I’d completed an online TESOL course before arriving in Costa Rica. 120 hours.
I also had a sound understanding of the local language, Spanish.
I appreciate that circumstances worked against me but feel with some tangible support from the school coordinators I could have had a positive outcome.