Reviews of Maximo Nivel

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Maximo Nivel’s award winning TEFL Certification Program is a thorough and practical introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). During the 150-hours 4-week course, you become familiar with the principles of successful ESL teaching and you develop real-world skills to be an effective English teacher. The TEFL program focuses on practical teaching, lesson planning, classroom management, and more. The training program includes 100 hours of in-class instruction, 35 hours of required reading and written assignments, and 15 hours of observation and practical teaching.

Practical teaching is the heart of the TEFL Certification program. You begin teaching mini-lessons in week 1 and continue throughout the course. There are also various, short workshops where you practice specific teaching techniques and strategies. The TEFL course also includes 6 hours where you observe experienced ESL teachers leading their classes. In the final week of the TEFL course, you take over a live English class with real, non-native students, and teach 60-minute lessons for 5 days, during which you are observed and coached by your TEFL Trainer. In all you will have 15 hours of practical teaching and observation during the course.

Maximo Nivel offers its TEFL Graduates lifetime job-finding support, which means their team is at your service before, during, and after the TEFL course to make sure you enjoy a successful teaching career.

Maximo Nivel’s success is based on our commitment to quality and the highest level of client service possible. We continuously invest in professional staff and first-class facilities to ensure your overall experience with us is nothing short of excellent.

Courses

Course Types

Combined TEFL Courses
On-site TEFL Courses
Online TEFL Courses

Course Lengths

Mini Courses (<30 hours)
Long Courses (150+ hours)

Certifications

TEFL / TESL / TESOL

Additional Features

Online Practicum
Stand-Alone Teaching Practice
TEFL Internships

Specialist Courses

Teaching Business English
Teaching Exam Preparation

Locations

Costa Rica

Manuel Antonio

Guatemala

Antigua

Peru

Cusco

Maximo Nivel has received 348 student reviews and has an overall rating of 4.89 out of 5 stars based on the following criteria.

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Contact

Contact
maximonivel.com
Address
Costa Rica - Guatemala - Peru
Phone
+1 800-866-6358

348 reviews of Maximo Nivel

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Written by Indigo Amarys on September 25, 2024 7:05 pm
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I highly recommend the four-week TEFL certification at Maximo Nivel Antigua!

It was a challenging, fun, and informative. Bonus points for our excellent instructor- Wayne- who kept everyone well informed and supported along the way. The material was delivered clearly and techniques were practiced throughout. By practical teaching week, we felt ready to go. Our development as teachers over the weeks was clear to see.

The support from everyone at the institute was top tier. If you’re considering… go for it!

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Written by Tyler Wingert on September 20, 2024 3:45 pm
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This TEFL course was great. It was a heavy workload but our teacher Wayne helped to keep it light and fun. Wayne conducted the class professionally and delivered the course material clearly. He was there to help us every step of the way and I always felt that I had the support I needed.

We had one full week of real teaching experience in the last week which was a great opportunity to put the teaching techniques we had learned into practice.

The staff continually checked in with me to make sure that I was fully prepared for success.

Thank you Wayne and Maximo for all the support these past 4 weeks!

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Written by Victoria on September 20, 2024 3:35 pm
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Course was great! Lovely meeting other similar minded people from around the world.

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Written by Karen Hayden on August 21, 2024 11:10 pm
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The TEFL certification with Maximo Nivel is quite rigorous and worth every minute! I highly recommend this certification course. WAYNE, my talented instructor, made the four-week journey soar. His expertise and highly skilled ability to model every facet of TEFL were truly amazing and inspiring! If you want to teach English as a foreign language, please consider this program. Antigua, Guatemala, is a tranquil location filled with kind people and beauty everywhere! No matter which country you choose, Peru, Costa Rica, or Guatemala, come a little early and/or stay a little longer. You will want to go on excursions and explore. There is so much to do, and the school offers on-site travel services at each location. Before coming to Guatemala for my TEFL certification I was in Peru for a month learning Spanish, and prior to that did online Spanish for a month, all with Maximo Nivel.

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Written by Maya Weaver on August 20, 2024 5:21 pm
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The TEFL course in Antigua was wonderful! Thanks to the instructor Wayne, I woke up excited to go to class every morning. I learned so much and grew both personally and professionally. The content was rigorous and often very unfamiliar, but Wayne delivered all of it in an engaging and memorable way. Through the assignments and practical teaching, I feel ready to use my certificate with poise and confidence!

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Written by Kavya Weaver on August 20, 2024 2:24 pm
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Máximo Nivel’s TEFL course, while indeed very work intensive, has been one of the most rewarding and fruitful classes I’ve ever taken, due largely to the excellent instruction of Wayne Summerbell. Over the course of the past four weeks, I’ve grown so much and been challenged to continually improve my competency as a teacher. Wayne is incredibly organized, diligent, attentive to the needs of his students, and a charismatic, kind, and fun teacher. I can’t imagine anyone better suited or qualified for this job. I now feel VERY prepared to enter the world of ESL instruction, and I’m going to miss my time in Antigua!

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Written by Linda Bakker on July 25, 2024 5:13 pm
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A lot of universities could take a lesson or two from how everything is arranged at Maximo Nivel. I took the Spanish course in Guatemala five years ago, and I chose Maximo Nivel this time to have a different adventure because I knew that everything would be well arranged and that the highest quality would be guaranteed.

I would even dare to say that the brochure and website information undersell what a truly amazing experience the TEFL course is, mainly due to the great teacher we had. Sean has the energy, knowledge, and patience to develop great future teachers.

Not only does the course content give you exactly what you need to prepare yourself to be in front of a class, but it also gives you the hands-on practice to stand there with confidence, think on your feet, and enjoy the experience.

I am already missing the classes and Cuzco. Thank you Maximo Nivel and thank you Sean!

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Written by Davey Hendrickson on July 22, 2024 1:38 pm
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I was on the proverbial fence about getting recertified in TEFL, as I had previously received my TEFL cert 16 years ago from the University of Arizona in Tucson. There seemed to be a lot of job opportunity in the area so part of me was thinking, “Why spend money unnecessarily when I can just start working right away?” Having said that, I am SO GLAD I signed up for the TEFL course with Máximo Nivel (Cusco) which I just completed this past Friday. Years ago, I got by teaching ESL based on the fact that I was a native speaker and that I had a fairly fun personality which my students generally responded well to. However, though most days I was passionate and gave my all, some days I was not good at all and did a disservice to the students I was teaching. Afterall, they were paying hard-earned money to learn English, not to be entertained. Máximo Nivel´s philosophy of teaching prioritizes STT (Student Talk Time) and in this course you learn not TO TEACH English, per se, but rather how to elicit and pull English language from the students! You learn how to constantly check in with your students to ensure they are understanding the activity in the classroom (CCQing), and you learn how to correct errors in a very direct and effective manner. Sean is the apotheosis of this teaching philosophy. He is in fact from day one modeling these techniques the whole time he´s teaching TEFL. Spoiler alert: about a week into the course, you realize that he has been teaching you in the same manner as he would his ESL students, utilizing all the same techniques. He has in fact elicited and pulled all of the information directly from the students and you discover that we’ve been doing most of the talking and that we’re having a blast while doing so. It is such an engaging and empowering method of teaching; you remember the information easier because you are the one, in fact, producing the information. Brilliant! He basically is modelling and teaching you how to metaphorically do Aikido on your students! Using THEIR energy/activity/voice toward the ultimate goal of “doing” English. I don’t want to give the illusion that this was an easy course, not at all. Especially for an old dog such as myself (50s now…yikes!) who struggles learning “new tricks” and whose personality is very well established. Speaking for myself, I had to destroy my ego and slowly build it back up again throughout the four weeks of instruction and there were many bumps along the way in learning how to consciously utilize these techniques. My younger cohort, all very talented and intelligent young women, were able to adjust more quickly. In the end I was able to do well enough to pass the course and when I struggled Sean was RIGHT THERE to support me. He was very available to his students; you got the feeling, and he in fact told us, he wouldn’t allow us to fail. The last thing I’ll say is that you immediately get to practice the techniques you are learning on ambitious young Peruvian students who take advantage of the free opportunity to participate in mini lessons which you, the TEFL student, are leading them through. This opportunity occurs weekly up until the final week where (M-F) all you are doing is preparing for and teaching a full class of students who are paying the institute money to be taught by you via all the techniques Sean has instilled in you. I thought my previous experience at U of A was great, but really there is no comparison to the hands-on, participatory experience offered my Máximo Nivel.

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Written by Brianna Brown on July 19, 2024 2:05 pm
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Sean is an amazing instructor! I’ve learned so much from him in the short time I’ve had in Peru. I was a hybrid course member and I initially bought the on-site program but my life is a bit too busy for the full 4 week in-person course. I so wish I could have spent more time in the classroom because it was fun, challenging, and engaging. The most valuable time I got was in person! It’s such a rigorous course and the in person feedback from someone as experienced as sean is extremely invaluable. I cannot say enough good things

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Written by Kyra Winata on June 28, 2024 11:04 am
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I got my TEFL certificate here last month and would describe the course as a great way to expand your teaching skills within a short time. In just a month we got an in-depth study of being an ESL teacher and put our knowledge to test teaching actual classes at Maximo Nivél. It was really valuable to be taught in a small-class, as we got lots of attention and feedback to improve our skills. Even though the course is a lot of work, it was a really fun time with my classmates and our TEFL trainer, who made the course a lot more manageable. Overall, I’m very glad I got to experience being a TEFL student in Peru and am now being assissted in finding jobs around the world. I really enjoyed my time at Maximo and felt very welcomed by the staff there!

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