Description
Bangkok-based Vantage was established in 2007 and is Thailand’s highest rated TEFL program. We offer a 120-hour, In-Class TEFL course, with 6 hours of observed teaching practices.
Our teacher training certification course covers five key areas of training: language awareness, teaching techniques, foreign language experience, a materials project and the development of a student profile.
Vantage has two university accreditations…internationally recognized…with Masters bearing credits. Each course is externally moderated.
Our American accreditation is from Fairmont State University. Vantage graduates earn 3 Masters level credits. We are also accredited by the European Global School—Paris. You can waive 25% of the requirements for a Master of Arts in Education by completing Vantage’s TEFL program.
We provide expert job support. We’ll craft your own Power Resume—resumes that make an impact in the six seconds many hiring authorities spend reading them. We’ll coach you on interviewing techniques, how to handle objections, giving demo lessons and job searching strategies.
Vantage is unique in that it has two footprints in Asia. We’re Thai-based and we have a large network of Thai schools, universities and corporate clients. In our TEFL Silk Road program, we also have a guaranteed job in China though our partner institute that has 70+ schools in 14 cities. You can earn a US$750 rebate on your TEFL tuition.
We also offer a 120-hour Combined Course, which blends online curriculum study with the observed practices of live classroom teaching of non-English speaking students.
Vantage graduates are successfully teaching English across Thailand and throughout the world.
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I’d like to thank Chris, our TEFL instructor, for his thorough and conversational approach to teaching the content of the course. We were able to dig beyond the textbook and have all our questions answered. Feel free to ask him anything! He’s a wealth of information. Since the course is workshop style with a small number of students, there is more focus on individual development and team collaboration. I can honestly say it was fun, instructive, and everything I needed to be successful in the classroom.
I enjoyed the practicum because it confirmed my goal to be a teacher. You never really know how you’ll feel about teaching until you try. After you get the hang of it, you begin to notice your strengths and weaknesses.
I’m going to be honest and say it is definitively an intensive course if you’re doing it all in Bangkok. You have class all day and for 1-2 weeks you may finish at 8 PM since you’ll be teaching and observing your peers. If you want to party or do touristy things, better luck when you’re finished with the course or cash in on the weekends.
The part I found the most challenging was creating the lesson plans in the afternoon with only a couple hours to work on them. It made me realize how much work is actually put into teaching. As a student, you think a teacher just shows up, but that is not the case. There’s preparation, performance, and strategy involved. If you don’t want to put in any effort, this may not be the most ideal career choice for you. TEFL prepares you to be an adaptable and intuitive teacher. It gives you tools to add to your toolbox. What you do with it is on you.
All in all, for me it was worth the investment. I want to travel and teach, but if I’m going to teach, I want to make sure I’m good at it.
Thanks Vantage for the support,
Genesis M. <3