Jack, your advice piqued my interest, so I looked it up really briefly. So you're saying that the PGCE/teaching cert is like an MAT degree-type thing like what you would earn at an American university?? And when you say English, do you mean ESL or English lit?

At any rate, it looks like a year of extra schooling. And that would definitely be on the table for me in the future. But to be honest, after being continuously in school for my entire life, right now I just gotta get out there and live a bit haha. I figured a 5-week entry level cert program can get me off the ground racking up some lower-level experience before I decide to advance my career and go back to school.

The sphere of international schools is interesting to me as well, but I don't know a thing about them or the certs/degrees I would need to get into one as of yet. Did you start out TEFL cert or go right to PGCE/ international schools?

Your advice is much appreciated btw, God bless.

Yeah :?, I started to realize that after I signed up.

Many thanks!

Hello all,

I'm a soon-to-be college graduate interested in teaching EFL worldwide. I'm about to apply to Oxford TEFL's 5-week TEFL certification course in Cadiz. I see that they are backed by Trinity College, which is allegedly one of the best, but can anyone speak to this program's effectiveness or Oxford TEFL as a school?

Otherwise, which other schools/programs offer a legitimate and well-known TEFL certification course?