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Name: The TEFL Org
Address: Suite Number 4, 8 Church Street, Inverness, Highland
Rating: 4.58

4.6 Rating 8,927 Reviews

94 %

of reviewers recommend The TEFL Org

4.6

Based on 8,927 reviews

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Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	6 - 12 Hours
Customer Service	4.5 out of 5

About The TEFL Org:

Established in 2008, The TEFL Org is the UK's most experienced and accredited TEFL course provider offering classroom, online & combined TEFL courses.

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Suite Number 4,
8 Church Street,
Inverness
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IV1 1EA

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The TEFL Org 5 star review on 12th November 2024

Anonymous

Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Not happy with the tutor and zero help from admin to change the tutor. unrealistic expectations for assignments”

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Posted 4 months ago

Hi, Thank you for reaching out with a review. We would like to look into this for you, but we cannot find any emails being received from you. Could you please ensure you email info@tefl.org with more details and your request, and you can be sure this will be dealt with immediately. Kind regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“Great course. Short parts, easy to consume, enthusiastic approach.”

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Posted 4 months ago

Dear Malgorzata, Thank you so much for your fantastic 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We truly appreciate your support and it's wonderful to know that you had a positive experience with our course. Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Warm regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“Very helpful course provider, gave me the confidence and skills needed to go out and teach. Met some interesting people along the way also. Tutors were very quick at giving feedback and suggestions.”

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Posted 4 months ago

Dear Miguel, Thank you so much for giving The TEFL Org a 5-star rating! We greatly appreciate your feedback and are thrilled to hear that our course was helpful in giving you the confidence and skills to teach. It's fantastic that you also had the opportunity to meet interesting people along the way. We wish you all the best in your future teaching endeavors! Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“TELF's courses are well done and structured to be understood and informative. I'm not the best tester or traditional student but I flourished with TEFL's courses! Would recommend to everyone!”

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Posted 4 months ago

Dear Justin, Thank you so much for your incredible 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We greatly appreciate your kind words and are thrilled to hear that our courses resonated so well with you. At The TEFL Org, we pride ourselves on creating courses that are well done and structured for easy understanding and maximum information absorption. We understand that everyone learns differently, and we are delighted to hear that our approach allowed you to flourish and excel. Once again, thank you for choosing The TEFL Org and for taking the time to share your wonderful experience! Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“The course was very helpful and helped set the foundations for me to continue to develop as a ESL teacher. My tutors feedback on my assignments was helpful and insightful.”

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Posted 4 months ago

Dear Nigel, Thank you so much for your wonderful 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We greatly appreciate your kind feedback. We're thrilled to hear that our course was helpful in setting the foundations for your growth as an ESL teacher. We always strive to provide valuable guidance and support to our students, so this feedback means a lot to us. Warm regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“I enjoyed the course; it was well-explained, informative, and fascinating. I learnt a lot and enjoyed learning. My tutor Arthur is always available to assist me. But we followed this course with great dedication. We students put forth much effort and make many sacrifices to succeed. The certificate you issue has to have that value attached to it. It would be great if you could include a mention of your claim to be the most accredited TEFL organization in the certificate, or at the very least, an embossed stamp of some sort.”

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Posted 4 months ago

Dear Iranthi, Thank you so much for your fantastic 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the course and found it well-explained, informative, and fascinating. I can see that you have so far just received the PDF copy of your certificate, which obviously cannot include an embossed stamp. You can be sure that you will find this and a hologram on the hard copy you will receive soon though. We are not able to include all our accreditators on our certificates, as we would simply not have space. Due to this we instead include the direct link on our certificates of where an employer can find this list on our website. Once again, thank you for your wonderful review and for choosing The TEFL Org. We wish you all the best in your TEFL journey! Warm regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 4 months ago

“I enjoyed the classroom examples. However, you could not hear the response of the students. After awhile I just skipped the video and read the transcript but that was not as interesting or dynamic. Overall, I learned a lot and purchased the grammer books you recommended. Grammer was the most difficult section for me, even as a native English speaker.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Ruth, Thank you so much for taking the time to rate The TEFL Org with 4 stars! We truly appreciate your feedback and are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the classroom examples we provided. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by not being able to hear the students' responses in the videos. We understand how important it is to have an engaging learning experience. However, we're glad that you were able to read the transcript as an alternative. Thank you once again for your valuable feedback and choosing The TEFL Org. We hope you continue to find our resources beneficial in your language teaching journey! Best regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 4 months ago

“The format of the classes were easy to navigate. It took me 6 weeks to finish the 120 hours. Anytime I had a question or concern, their customer service was on top of things ready to help. The tutor I mainly dealt with was extremely nice and informative. I’ve already recommended this program to other people!”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Amanda, Thank you so much for giving The TEFL Org a 5-star rating! We are thrilled to hear that you found the format of our classes easy to navigate and were able to complete the 120 hours in just 6 weeks! It's great to know that our customer service team was there for you whenever you had a question or concern. We are proud of our informative and friendly staff, and we're glad to see that you had a positive experience with them. Thank you again for your positive feedback, and we wish you all the best in your TEFL journey. Warm regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“Hello Andy, Thank you for this wonderful course. I would say that I initially found the format of the lesson plan tests extremely confusing. My first test followed a format that TEFL used often: requiring two different activities that were submitted in a single window. It took me a couple of tries to realize that there was no second window for the second activity, and both activities had to be submitted in a single window. This seemed unnecessarily confusing and also made tracking word count difficult. Each activity should have its own submission window. I would also set the lesson plan tests at a minimum of 300 words instead of 100 words and have a wider leeway for word count. It is extremely difficult to fit any lesson plan into 100 words. The opening course on grammar, speaking, reading, and listening provided great content, and I appreciated the teaching techniques module that presented so many creative ways to engage students. The large classes, online, and telephone teaching modules also gave smart ways of engaging and offered important information on use of different technologies and internet platforms. Thank you for reviewing VoIPs. It's important for teachers to keep up with the latest and best innovations. Best regards, Leslie Lewis”

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Posted 5 months ago

Hello Leslie, Thank you so much for your wonderful 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We are thrilled to hear that you found our course to be valuable and engaging! Your feedback is greatly appreciated and we will certainly take all your suggestions into consideration. We are glad to hear that you found the content on grammar, speaking, reading, and listening to be great, and that the teaching techniques module provided you with creative ways to engage students. Thank you once again for your support and feedback. We are always working to provide the best possible experience for our students, and your input helps us in that mission. If you have any further comments or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“It was different and captured my attention from the first module. I would suggest changing the Telephone teaching course’s name to Online teaching as after Covid, everyone should know about online platforms. Other than that, I enjoyed every second and the challenge it gave me.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Kayla, Thank you so much for your wonderful 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We sincerely appreciate your kind words and are thrilled to hear that our course captured your attention right from the beginning. We really appreciate your feedback regarding the Telephone teaching course. Your suggestion of changing its name to Online teaching will certainly be looked into. Thank you once again for choosing The TEFL Org. We truly appreciate your support and hope to serve you again in the future. Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 4 months ago

“Overall, I have had a very pathetic and lifeless experience with this program and I think it could use improvement. As someone who has taken online courses before, I found this one to be lacking in personal value and I should have none by the front page of the website looking too good to be true. I felt lost and out of the loop once I started. There were spelling errors everywhere. My first tutor was so terrible, I didn't even know I had one until halfway through my first course. She was not helpful and very laconic. I got switched to another tutor who could at least be patient enough to explain some things to me about the program that was not otherwise disclose. I felt lost and forgotten about. I have supicion this program is understaffed or alot smaller than it appears to be. The program is just mostly watching videos and doing multiple-choice questions on subjects that are redundant. I didn't learn many new things or anything interesting to apply. Classes ranked from most useful and engaging to the least: Grammar (straightforward but lacks intuitive ways of teaching), Methodology (the work is engaging but not balanced properly), Teaching large audiences (has some methods other professional teachers I talked to disagreed with), but hands down the worst one was telephone teaching. I was hoping that telephone teaching class would be relevant, but I found it extremely lackluster, and the final exam was unusually difficult for having an entire section on different outdated video streaming software. I would NOT reccomend TEFL.org.uk at all to non native english speakers as a native speaker myself, I struggled to understand the sentence formatting and termonology. It was distracting and very ironic....being a class that was supposed to teach me how to teach english. Also a majority of the videos is them just reading the course meterial to you allowed, I cant imagine a more boring way to learn anything, ever. I dealt with numerous technical errors such as being logged out over and over, not being able to log in, being accused of using AI when there wasn't any, and classes constantly saying they were incomplete when I had already completed them. I would have to re-watch things over and over to get the video to say complete. You pay for what you get. But the technical difficulties were what made the class go from mediocre to nightmarish. I told everyone I knew how I couldn't wait to be done and just get the certificate so I could spend my precious time learning in another class. The external resources and information is very shallow and way to optmistic where as other tefl courses actually give you cold hard facts and legit links or refferences. 2 stars. Originally 1 for being a bad experience overall but I will give one for their demonstration videos being authentic and for the course being affordable. This course has really affected my mental health worse than any class I have ever taken and everyone around me was shocked at truly how bad it was. Its dry and robotic experience has demotivated me from being excited to become a TEFL teacher. I wouldnt be so harsh if I wasnt being honest or if I was young and naive but I have taken online courses that were way better. Needs improvment. I strongly suggest a community hub that isnt a forum. A live chat is needed to understand some of these things otherwise it will take you months to pass this course to get all your questions and concerns answered so I just saught out support and community elsewere. At least please hire someone to fix the technical errors and typos. Update some of the course work. I got a grammar book from the thrift store for 50 cents that was more fun and engaging. Was not life changing. All the non lesson related issues was a huge waste of my valuable learning time and gave me a feeling of distrust. I wanted to look into teaching through the internship program through them but I think I will take my chances elseware. I have no idea why people would rank this 5 stars. I think those people are naive, or fake reviews. Also Live chat and Telephone was a option? I am online seeing this now in the review options. Further proving my point the tutors and assistance with this program were next to nothing. As a student I felt dismissed. How quick did they respond? I only get the option of 6-12 hours or over a week but the average is 1-3 days. Further proving my point their system avoids accountability. Whoever is running this program is definatly selling a product, not working for a school lol.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Sheamus, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback and experiences with us. We take all feedback seriously as we are continually trying to improve our services. We are sorry that you have found the training course unsuitable for your goals, but we will take your comments into consideration for any future course updates. Should you have any further comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out. Best Regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 5 months ago

“Very, very useful and well designed courses. I was truely impressed.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Paraskeva, Thank you so much for your outstanding 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to leave such positive feedback. If you ever have any further questions or need any support, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're always here to help! Best regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 5 months ago

“I think TEFL.org is a good option for getting an online TEFL certification. The course is well laid out and informative. I have many years of teaching experience, but took this course to add another layer to my resume. In my case, I already knew many of the things taught. That being said, I believe this course was designed for beginners. If you are a beginner, there will be plenty to learn. I think the quiz sections could use a little work. Sometimes answers are ambiguous and more could be added to the feedback besides telling you the answer is wrong. Overall I would still recommend it to anyone needing a TEFL certification.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Thank you so much for your kind 4-star review of The TEFL Org. We appreciate your feedback and are delighted to hear that you found our course well laid out and informative. We understand that as someone with many years of teaching experience, some of the content may have been familiar to you already. However, we appreciate your recommendation to anyone new to teaching. We are constantly working on improving our courses, and your input will be taken into consideration as we make updates. We understand that more detailed feedback would be helpful, and we will strive to provide more extensive explanations in the future. If you have any further suggestions or if there's anything else we can assist you with, please don't hesitate to reach out. We wish you continued success in your teaching career! Best regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 5 months ago

“TEFL Org provides a comprehensive version of the TEFL course online with clear, general explanations and observational learning through classroom videos. Its monotonous display and website formatting could use some visual enhancement. The organization of the course content could also be improved. Increasing detailed guidelines and footnoted material would also help. The video instruction sometimes gave self-explanatory information while sounding pedantic. The course method encouraged much hands-on learning. You have to figure out a lot of stuff yourself. But I don't like this feeling that it's like I didn't learn anything.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Hi Crystal, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience with The TEFL Org. We truly appreciate your feedback. We'll certainly look into your suggestions when we review our courses in future. If you ever have any questions, need further assistance, or simply want to chat about TEFL, please don't hesitate to reach out. We are here for you every step of the way! Thanks again for your review. We look forward to assisting you in any way we can. Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 5 months ago

“I just listened to my son Seth Knight.. as a mom so proud of his accomplishment.. as a French and Spanish teacher so happy he is using his gift to teach and share with other people! My mother was from Montreal… Seth’s grandmother so he was exposed to foreign language and culture at a very young age!! So proud of his accomplishments and so happy that he is doing / working and loving his job.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Denise, Thank you so much for your amazing 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We greatly appreciate your feedback and are thrilled to hear about the positive experience that your son has had with us. We are honoured to have Seth as part of our teaching community, and we wish him continued success in his career. Warm regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 5 months ago

“You should try and get recognized with the national education system so teachers can claim the certification as professional experience. TEFL certification should count as professional development, but your organization does not appear on their list of partners who count. Therefore 120 hours of education time do not count toward professional development which allows a professional to renew their certification. Seems like a waste of time. One must have a relationship with their government to participate in self-governance.”

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Posted 5 months ago

“Fab course, teacher was great and engaging. Thank you Simon:)”

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Posted 5 months ago

Thank you so much for your wonderful 4-star rating of The TEFL Org! We really appreciate your feedback and are delighted to hear that you had a fabulous experience with us. We look forward to serving you again in the future. Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 5 months ago

“I found the videos, quizzes, and assignments very informative and easy to digest. Feedback given was also very clear and instructive.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Kevin, Thank you so much for your fantastic 5-star rating of The TEFL Org! We truly appreciate your kind words and are happy to hear that you enjoyed our videos, quizzes, and assignments. Providing clear and instructive feedback is something we strive for, and we're glad to know that it has been beneficial to you. Thank you once again for your support and positive feedback. We look forward to serving you in the future! Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 5 months ago

“The online TEFL courses are a great way to learn about the theory of teaching English in various ways. I greatly enjoyed the courses and found the tutors to be very knowledgeable and helpful. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in TEFL.”

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Posted 5 months ago

Thank you so much for your outstanding 5-star rating! We are truly grateful for your kind words about our organisation. We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed our online TEFL courses and found them to be a great avenue for exploring the theory of teaching English. Our team of tutors takes great pride in providing a supportive and knowledgeable learning environment, and they will be thrilled to hear that you found their guidance helpful. Once again, thank you for your continuous support. We are always here to assist you further on your TEFL journey whenever you need us. Warm regards, The TEFL Org Team

Posted 5 months ago

“It’s all on line you wait 48 hours for a reply to your work. There is 2 days only face to face. . If you don’t have a teaching background you may struggle. I found it very solitary and did not enjoy it. I struggled with some of it mainly unit 12. After doing this course I realise I do not like online learning and although I “passed” it means nothing in the bigger picture of confidently teaching English. I think improvement can be made with more face to face teaching every 8 weeks at an additional cost. If this were available I would have done it”

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Posted 5 months ago

Dear Dawn, Thank you for taking the time again to review The TEFL Org! We do certainly state clearly that we are an online course provider, and do not offer full in-person courses. Our courses are designed for anyone looking to teach online or in person, and if this is their goal they will certainly find our courses can help them accomplish this. If you ever need any assistance or have any further questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. Best regards, The TEFL Org team

Posted 5 months ago

The TEFL Org is rated 4.6 based on 8,927 reviews