Reviews of i-to-i TEFL

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Discover teaching English abroad with i-to-i TEFL.

We’re TEFL experts with over 27 years’ experience in making teach English abroad dreams a reality!

We start by helping you qualify as a confident TEFL teacher, before pointing you in the right direction to our TEFL Internships in epic locations such as Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea.

Here at i-to-i TEFL, we’re proud to say we’ve trained over 182,000 TEFL graduates. And because our courses are English-Government regulated, once you’re qualified, employers prefer candidates with an i-to-i certificate.

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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

Additional Features

Online Practicum
TEFL Internships

Specialist Courses

CLIL
Teaching Business English
Teaching Exam Preparation
Teaching One-to-One
Teaching Online
Teaching Young Learners

i-to-i TEFL has received 195 student reviews and has an overall rating of 3.22 out of 5 stars based on the following criteria.

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195 reviews of i-to-i TEFL

Review 40 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Linz on May 15, 2012 2:02 pm
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This course is absolutely rubbish! Having a teaching degree already I thought I would walk into a job as an English teacher… this is not the case. I have been told by several potential employers that this course is not recognized as an official course and that they could not accept my certificate. I feel cheated out of valuable time and money!

A minor point to add is that it took several months before i-to-i sent me my certificate. I phoned and e-mailed several times before they resolved the problem. I would not recommend this course at all. My time and money would have been put to much better use on another tefl course.

However, the instructor was very friendly and helpful and I enjoyed the course from that aspect.

Review 39 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Tina on April 22, 2012 12:37 pm
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I have just completed the i to i 120 hour course and I thought it was great. I agree entirely with the last review posted by Kate. I think it is a shame that i to i suffer such bad reviews from people who are clearly expecting something other than what they have bought.

i to i are a profit making company offering training courses, just like any management training company and you pay for their package. What you do with the knowledge you gain is up to you. They won’t transform you into an experienced teacher in a couple of months. They give you the basics and check you have understood. If you simply buy a book (b8hoven) you have no feedback and you’re never tested – if you have no previous teacher training how do you know if you’re on the right track?

I have no teaching experience and the course has taught me loads of techniques and different approaches. It has given me a thorough grounding that I can build on and opened the door to a new career path. The tutors were great and very helpful and I had as much support as I asked for.

As for classroom experience, i to i never state that you will have teaching practice with students. Practice with tutor’s is very useful – you get feedback on your lesson presentation that you wouldn’t get from students.

On the job front, TEFL is internationally recognised (no lie) but is someone in the depths of South Korea really going to look at your i to i certificate and hire you because of it? You could design and print a fake one – would they know? I have high level professional qualifications from the UK deemed ‘international’ which are totally worthless in France. If you believe an i to i certificate alone is a passport to international travel and work then you probably belive all those ads for slimming products and anti-ageing creams…….

All this said, i to i are a commercial company and they do have one or two sneaky marketing tricks. They say ‘book now -offer ends on the 15th’ when in fact the offers roll on for months!! And when you book they give you a free module – great, you think, except that you’re hard pushed to finish the course in the time and if you don’t finish then you end up paying extra for a time extension! But that’s business.

They’ve given me what I need to get started and I consider it was very good value.

Review 38 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Kate on March 26, 2012 6:44 am
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I’m amazed that i-to-i has had these bad reviews. I have benefited from the 50% discount so perhaps my expectations were lower than others who might have paid twice as much.

I am getting so much out of this course! I started teaching individual lessons at home to elementary school kids and really needed some guidance. This course has helped me see where I was going wrong and how to get better results out of the kids.

I found the structure really motivating and I couldn’t wait to do the quiz at the end of each module. I aimed for top marks each time as I already know quite a lot about language learning from the student perspective but invariably there were one or two things I’d get wrong and have to re-read the pdf summary to correct myself.

The checkpoints were much more time consuming but the hard work paid off in terms of really understanding the methodology.

The ressources were great. I’ve saved all of the internet links and am looking forward to carrying on with my learning even after the course is over.

I have a part time job, two young kids and am on another course so for me this was an ideal way to fit TELF around my busy life. Also I neeeded the deadline that they give you otherwise it would have just become another one of my unfinished projects!

Ok there’s no teaching practice, but how difficult is it to offer some free lessons to someone you know in exchange for a bit of feed back from them? You soon discover what works!

I can’t comment on job placement because I’m already taking care of that myself.

For anyone in a similar situation to myself I’d recommend i-to-i and say it’s great value for a really well presented on line course.

Review 37 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Naomi Abrahams on February 11, 2012 9:45 am
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I found the course harder than I thought it would be. However, this was good because I feel that I have the skills needed to be a good teacher,once I get the needed practice. Since completing the course and advertising online, I have had numerous from Asian countries. Unfortunately, I’ve had none from Europe, which is what I want. I don’t know if I will succeed as I didn’t realise that age, lack of a degree and experience would play such a big part. Nevertheless, I can’t fault the course content.

Review 36 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Johanna on November 13, 2011 1:50 pm
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I found the course to be quite thorough and not as simple as I had imagined it would be. All in all, I did learn quite a few things.

As for teaching practice, since this is an online course, there is none. So I suggest you do as I did, which is to volunteer at a local English school.

I honestly feel these courses are hogwash. If you want real credentials to be a teacher then get a masters in Education. Otherwise all of this you would have learnt shortly after starting to teach anyway.

The whole industry is just a money making cash cow for those of us who did not study education but want to work in another country.

Did it work? Yes. I immediately got offered a few of the positions I applied for. But don’t kid yourself that you will somehow be a better teacher because you took this course.

With that I say good luck on your adventures.

Review 35 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by moirab on November 6, 2011 12:39 am
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I started they year as a literacy/numeracy teacher for adults in a small town in the north of Australia. The majority of the students were aboriginal.

gradually through the year more and more overseas students joined the class as there were no dedicated language shcools in the town. I was struggling as I had no training in ESL.

Reseach and advice from others led me to the CELTA course. This was impossible for me as it was only offered face to face in the state capital 2000kms away!

So I enrolled for the 60hr online i to i course.

Because I was already teaching and had an immediate need for the information I found it incredibly helpful. I was immediately aware that much of what I had thought was good was the students was useless and, apart from the interaction they had with each other, coming to my classes was a waste of time. I have changed my methods completely and immediately noticed an improvement in language learning.

I am going to do the CELTA course in January but in the meantime I’m grateful for what I have learned from i to i.

Review 34 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Steffan on August 13, 2011 4:43 pm
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I think it essential comes down to how much you put into the course. As the saying goes, ‘you get out what you put in’. If you are like me and highly interested in making a career out of being a TEFL teacher, and are attracted to the travelling lifestyle, you most definitely won’t just do the minimum requirements to pass, but go that extra mile.

I’ve just passed checkpoint 3, which was a very long and demanding assessment and is certainly no stroll in the park. I got every question pretty much nailed on because I spent a long time researching and fine tuning my answers, in order to make sure I full understood the teaching concepts/techniques that I was being taught. They clearly know what they are doing, because in these two weeks I already feel so much more confident in my abilities and feel that in many ways it beats the traditional structure of learning that gets taught at university; where all you do is paraphrase and regurgitate other peoples ideas, into your own language, on top of direct help from the tutor (where in so many words they tell you exactly what to mention). Here, the responsibility lies squarely on your shoulders.

I don’t understand what people expect from a 120 hour course (20 hours classroom), that is roughly the same as a month at university! If you want a highly reputable job, go get yourself a masters, than you go teach anyway you wish, but for people who prefer to it themselves who don’t want to spend a decade in education this course is perfect…

Review 33 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Bridget on August 10, 2011 5:05 am
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I’ve been lucky enough to have an entirely positive experience with i-to-i. I signed myself up to the Thailand internship which included a 120-hour online course and a 20 hour weekend course (in Thailand). I found the content of the course to be really comprehensive, and followed a logical course of thinking. The feedback was helpful, and my instructor for the 20 hour weekend course was incredible. He was immensely patient, understanding and clear in his explanations – everything you need in an introduction to TEFL. I feel the course, combined with my time teaching here in Thailand has been a wonderfully helpful and positive introduction to the TEFL world. Not only has the internship given me career experience, but I’ve also been fortunate enough to meet a myriad of wonderful people. This may just be the best thing I’ve done, and would highly recommend i-to-i. I’ve had my job found for me, my accommodation found for me, as well as sorting out all my visa extension stuff. i-to-i takes out the stress of all the bureaucratic nonsense, so you can focus on having fun and getting stuck into teaching!

Review 32 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by b8hoven on July 10, 2011 2:18 am
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I did the 40 hour online course way back in 2006. As I had had no prevous teaching experience, I found it useful in becoming aware of all the names of different tenses etc. The classroom video was useful as well, as I had no idea of how to go about teaching a class.

That being said, the materials were useless and I had to use the couple of grammar which I had purchased just to answer the questions at the end of the module.

I was teaching in Poland and I got a teaching job before I had even finished the course. When I had my interview I had to create a lesson plan, the classroom video in the course helped me create the lesson plan and in turn helped me secure the job. That’s probably the only positive thing I could say about this course. It is ok if you don’t know anything about teaching english, but don’t expect the certificate to be accepted anywhere.

You are better off reading a book on teaching and and using English Grammar in Use. If you have done a Bachelor degree, I wouldn’t even worry about the “qualification” at the end of the course.

I wouldn’t waste my money on the i-to-i course, as it is NOT “An internationally recognised 40 hour TEFL certificate”.

And this statement is definitely NOT true. “Our courses are accepted by 1,000s of language schools worldwide”.

Do a proper internationally accepted course like CELTA/DELTA as others have stated above. Stay clear of i-to-i if you want qualifications.

Review 31 of 195 i-to-i TEFL

Written by Ross on May 25, 2011 9:20 am
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Quick and inexpensive courses are offered but resultant certificates seem to have next to no prevalence in the international job market.

Placements for Europe are extremely limited (I found out after taking the course, despite talking with tutors who seemed to think that the course COULD get me a placement in Greece), i-to-i focus mainly on Asian internships (Thailand, China being the main placements).

Do your research before doing a TEFL course; you get what you pay for and the courses do vary from company to company. You may find it easier to find work if you do your course abroad in the same place you take your placement.

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