New TEFL/TESOL Course in Khon Kaen

I took your comment "by post", or as I would say "by mail", to mean that you completed the course at home by yourself. Perhaps I misunderstood...did I?

SkyyWalker wrote:I took your comment "by post", or as I would say "by mail", to mean that you completed the course at home by yourself. Perhaps I misunderstood...did I?

You are assigned an individual tutor but all communication was by post. Now days i would guess the internet plays an important role

For those of you interested in seeing what schools & students look like in Northeast, Thailand.

SkyyWalker wrote:In regards to other comment about doing a TEFL via the post in the UK, all I can say is that while I'm sure it helped you (and the price was right) don't think for a second that it's comparable to taking a course face to face with an instructor who has teaching experience and being able to have numerous, observed practice teaching sessions.

I agree, there seems to be a big difference between doing a TEFL on-line, and doing one in the classroom. I have met many teachers over the years with one or the other. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has an on-line TEFL and their thoughts...

TEFL online or even a TESOL online is I admit far harder as you do not have the interaction between students and you draw on your own work experiences to formulate your written responses.
The one to one Tutors I had were really hard and a pass mark of over 75% was required before going onto the next module, I failed one module and had to do it again, no extra cost but more time.
When one considers that the Grammar module was completely different to what I learnt at school and the though processes required to pass the one to one module as well as the business module, being alone was quite hard.
the English grammar test had a minimum pass of 75% for just grammar, other pass mark were required for English generally. and I can tell you I sweated on them all but eventually passed.

So it really depends on whether you had a good basic English education or just adequate, having used English both written and talking in my previous occupation I felt I could do the on-line quite successfully, but it was not easy.

I did the TEFL/TESOL not because I needed it, but because it gave me insight as to how they thought teachers would or should react to foreign students for that it was really illuminating.