I'm TEFL certified under Oxford Seminars. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to education and I'm quite wary of online classes so I decided to an in-the-classroom course. The course was quite helpful in learning methods of teaching, but it really catered to those who would work in private language schools and *not* a public school situation.

The TEFL course material was focused on pedagogical methods that would mostly be useful primarily for a private language school where students' attentions are more focused on learning English. The course I took did *not* cover any disciplinary or teaching methods for handling large-sized classes, issues with public school environments, and methods for co-teaching. Although I was somewhat more prepared to handle teaching in EPIK since I knew some of the newer methods behind English instructuion, I totally was not prepared to deal with disciplinary problems in a public school situation. In a public school situation, students are concerned about a wide variety of subjects. In a private language school situation, however, students' objective for being in class is just to learn the language. Students in private language schools may be there against their will, but they still have the expectation that they're at that school to learn the language. Also, public schools use only extremely blasse textbooks that even the public school teachers despise.

It was a 60-hour course. It was $995.