 Hi. Welcome. Linda here from ITTT. Back with another live session. Welcome. How are you all doing today? I hope you're doing fine. Thank you so much for tuning in and taking some time out of your day. I just need to move my notes. Thanks so much for being here. As you can see today, we're going to talk about the question is a 120 hour TEFL course good enough to get or enough to get a good TEFL job. That's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to go into a couple of different questions that we at ITTT get a lot about TEFL certification and specifically about 120 hours. I'm going to talk about that. Why are we always talking about 120 hours? What's up with that? As always, there will also be an opportunity at the end to ask questions in the Q&A section, but also throughout the entire live session. You're welcome to ask questions in the comment box. If you can see me, if you can hear me, please leave just a quick comment in the comment section that everything's working fine. You can give me like a thumbs up. And also I always really want to know where you are watching from right now. So maybe you can also put that in the comments. That'd be great. Please don't forget to like and subscribe. You're already here. You have nothing to lose. We are live right now on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time. As we always do, this is a weekly event. We always, every week we host these events. Lots of fun. I enjoy it. Always something great to talk about here. And I love learning from you guys. You give a lot of input feedback and a lot of interesting stories that you guys share from your teaching experience. So I really, really appreciate that. And so, yeah, let's have a look here. We have Bernard from Phil's Philippines. Awesome. Is this Philippines? Cool. I wish I was there right now. We have Rosa here. Hi. How are you doing? Good to see you all. What time is it where you guys are? Let me know. It is 10 a.m. here. I am in South Korea. It is morning time for me. I know in the Philippines it's also morning time. Is it like 8 a.m. over there or 9, 8 or 9, I think, or earlier? Not quite sure. Something like that. 9. Okay. There we go. It's 9 a.m. in the Philippines. Cool. Then we have here Kaka Dorang official. Hi. I'm planning to continue my studies in TESOL or TEFL. Could you please share some materials that I will learn then? Yes. We're going to go into the course content. So just stay tuned. This is something that I'm mentioning very, very soon. And you're from Indonesia. Awesome. Cool. Great. I love Indonesia. I want to see more. I've only been to Bali so far. And I hear it's very different from the rest of Indonesia, culturally. So I really want to go back to Indonesia and see more. Also, Philippines, I have been only to Boracay, which was my honeymoon. Actually, it was amazing. I absolutely loved it. And I also want to go back and see more of the Philippines. Give me your recommendations. Like where do the locals go actually for vacation in the Philippines? Let me know. We have Gwen. Hey, long time no see. How are you doing? Still in Malaysia at the moment. Very nice. Also a place I want to go back to for sure. Awesome. Yes. It looks like we have a big Asian squat here at the moment. I love it. I love it. Cool. All right. Also, what I always like to mention, we do have 30% off today, off of our TEFL courses, all of the TEFL courses. But what you can do is you can scan this QR code. Or if you can't scan that, I'm also going to share a link with you guys in the comments. Let me see real quick where my links went. Here we go. If you can't scan that, no problem. You just use this link right here. Looks like this. And this will get you 30% off any TEFL course from ITTT today. Okay. Any course you want, we're going to talk about specifically about the 120-hour course today. But this course is good for any of our courses. And Gwen says, I'm great. It's been a long time for sure. We're looking forward to trying to work in a new country. Yes. Super exciting. Awesome. Juliana's here also. Hey, good to see you, Juliana. I'm watching from Illinois. Today's weather is like from spring to summer. Oh, here too, kind of. Yeah. Same. Even though it is kind of a little cloudy, but I think it's going to clear up. It's like blue sky on one side and then very cloudy on the other. I don't know how that's going to go today. 8pm. Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Great. Okay. Then we have a question from Fayette. My level intermediate. Can I enter the session and be good with English? My name is Fay. Or Phi, Fay or Phi? Thank you. I'm going to talk about that also in a minute about the requirements and stuff for taking the course. So I'm going to answer that in a minute. Stay tuned. And yeah. So let's jump in. As you can see, I changed up my slides a little bit. We used to go with this, or I used to go with one particular kind of template. And for today, I changed it up and I used a new one. I'm very proud of myself. I hope you like it. If you've seen my live sessions before, you probably recognize this is a little bit different today. New style. I hope you enjoy it. Anyway. Just wanted to pet myself on the back a little bit. So first, who am I if you're watching for the first time? And I think we do have some people watching here for the first time. So I just want to introduce myself. Hi again. My name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and also a TEFL expert here at ITTT. Little bit about me. So I also have a personal website, actually a personal website and social media under the name Linda goes East East because I've been living in Asia for pretty much 10 years now. I lived in China and I've been in Korea most of the time. It's seven years now in China in Korea. And my personal website is Linda goes East.com. And on there I share information about living in Korea. Also traveling in Asia, teaching English in Asia and Korea in China. All of those things. And also an Instagram. If you enjoy content like in these photos here, here down here. And also some information about Korea and China and Asia in general. Do check it out. And also if there's any questions about TEFL or teaching abroad that you have and you don't want to ask here in front of everybody, you can just DM me on Instagram as well. No problem. I'm originally from Germany and the US. So my mom is German. My dad is American. I was born and raised in Germany, but I also spent some time in the US. I went to university there and then I moved to China. Actually, and that was in 2012 when I was in China for the first time. It's kind of a six month abroad thing. And then I went back and I completed my bachelor's degree in San Diego, California. And after that I went back to China for another year. And then I moved to South Korea and I've been here ever since. And I'm also a TEFL and TESOL expert here at ITTT, which stands for International TEFL and TESOL Training. You can find us at TEFLCourse.net. And also on Instagram. If you are all about Instagram, like me, check us out. International TEFL Training on there. And if you're wondering what is ITTT, I just kind of stumbled upon this live session. I have no clue what I'm doing here. ITTT is a leading TEFL and TESOL course provider worldwide. So that means we offer a variety of different TEFL and TESOL courses, which are courses that will allow you, certify you to teach English abroad or online or in your own country. It is an English teaching certification that is accepted, accredited worldwide all around the world. My teaching experience, a little bit about that. I am also, of course, TEFL and TESOL certified. I took my own certificate, this one right here, back in 20. I think I started in 2014 and then I completed it in 2015. I'm also going to show you that in a minute. So you can see that better. With ITTT, of course, that's kind of how I slid into ITTT's world a little bit. So I found out about them and then I ended up working for them in the end. So that was some time ago. And yeah, I have eight plus years of teaching experience in China and in South Korea. And I also, even when I was in high school, I was tutoring people. So I always really enjoyed teaching. And I teach at the moment as well. So besides working for ITTT and blogging, travel writing and all of those things, I also teach, I teach in-person classes, but I also teach a lot of online classes. So if you're interested in that, in taking English lessons, perhaps, or maybe also German, I also teach German. You can also let me know and maybe we can work something out there. So that's a little bit about myself. Let me see the comments here. Kaka Dorang says, thank you, sis. Don't forget to visit my beautiful island called Flores Island. I've heard a lot about Flores, an island where Komodo Dragon plays day and night. By the way, I didn't learn too much about English in my bachelor's degree. Oh, that's awesome. Yes, I heard a lot about Flores. I really, really want to go there. And the other one I want to go to, I don't know if you say that correctly, Yogea Karta, I think Yogea Karta. I'm probably butchering that, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. That place with like the beautiful temples. That's also where I really want to go to. Anyway, Flores as well. I've seen lots of pictures. Okay, so this is about me. Like I said, if you want to reach out to me personally, you can do so. Just via Instagram at LyndaGoesEast. Check me out, give me a follow that'd be really highly appreciated. And I'll see you there. So that's enough about me. Today we're going to talk about is a 120 hour TEFL course enough to get a good TEFL job. Because when you do Google search, I'm sure most of you have done that. You Google TEFL course, TEFL certification. You Google that and you get a ton of different options. Not only different providers, but also different course options, different hours, different kinds of things. And you might be confused. Which course should you take? You hear a lot about 120 hour. What is this 120 hour course all about? Why 120 hours? What's up with that? And then is this enough to get a good job teaching abroad? Or should you go with the course with more hours? That's what we're going to do today. That is basically on our agenda. We're going to look at these questions in particular. First of all, what is a 120 hour TEFL course? What is so special about 120 hours in particular? Is a 120 hour course good enough to get a job teaching English abroad? How long does it take to complete a 120 hour TEFL class or course? How much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost? Those are the questions we are going to dive in today. Usually these live sessions take about 45 minutes in total, up to an hour. So just be aware of that. You can always watch the replays of course. They are always available in our playlist on Facebook and also on YouTube. And what else? We also always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes. So if you want to listen to this on the go, you can download it. You can find it on all major podcast platforms, Spotify, Google podcasts, iTunes, wherever and you just punch in TEFL and TESOL podcast by ITTT and you'll find it there. So lots of options and you can keep your comments coming. I will get back to your questions. And like I said, there's also a Q&A section at the end of this presentation or session where you can ask even more questions. So that's the dist of how this usually works. And we have Min Min Pei here from Myanmar. Hey, good to see you again. How are you doing? And Juliana has a comment here. I want to share some information about teaching English in Shanghai because I participated in an interview on Clubhouse about the Shanghai lockdown and asked the interviewee questions about teaching English in Shanghai. Yes, that would be great. Please share it with us. That's very interesting. You can get back to that in the Q&A session and you can share more about that. Very good. That'd be great. Thank you, Juliana. All right. Good. Let's jump in as always. Please just keep your comments coming. Any comments, any questions, hit me with them. No problem. So the first question we're going to look at today is what is a 120 hour TEFL course? What's it all about? So basically, like I already said, it is a certification course taken primarily by English speakers who seek to teach English abroad or online. Because sometimes some people are confused and they confuse it with a TEFL, which is English language proficiency test for learning English, for improving English. However, a TEFL course is for teaching English as a foreign language, not for English proficiency. So if you're looking to improve your English, this is not the course. This is a course for becoming an English teacher, which also means you should already have a very high level of the English language. So with 120 hour course, this is basically the international standard course. So anyone who is fluent in English can take this course, no problem. If you're looking at a higher level course and we're going to look at the different options in a minute, but more hours, we do recommend you have to be at least a native speaker. You have to be a native speaker or at least near native level for those. This one, if you're fluent in English, you're good to go. You can also, if you're worried about, oh, can I do it? I don't know if my English is good enough. Don't worry about it. We have a tutored option of this course. That means you have access to a professional TEFL expert, a TEFL tutor, who will be by your side so you can ask them questions. If there's something that you don't understand, you can ask questions to your tutor and they will get back to you. Okay, so that's the first part. The second part with this course, usually, usually there are two formats available. At least that's how it is at ITTT. So that means you would either take this course completely 100% online on your computer or you take it in an intensive four-week program at a training center location of your choice around the world. So those are the two options. Either a four-week in-class TEFL course or an online course and you have up to six months to complete that course. So that's a little bit different. Obviously, also the prices will be different for those two options. Online course, more affordable. The four-week in-class course is more on the higher end of the price scale here. But with a four-week intensive course, what you get is you actually are in a training center in an actual English language school abroad with real English learners and you will learn the same course content but taught in a classroom by a teacher trainer with other trainees who also want to be teachers and then you also have the opportunity to teach real English learners in this setting after you have learned the theoretical parts and learned about all the teaching information that you need and then you will get also practical teaching experience with that. This is something that you don't have with the online course. However, we also have additional add-ons like 30-hour teaching practice add-ons that you can also take online where you film yourself teaching and we will evaluate that and you also get a teaching practice certificate. That is also an option. Course content, what does a 120-hour TEFL course contain? What kind of content? What will you learn? Basically, the instruction and practice in the primary skill areas required for a graduate to teach English as a foreign language. So that means you will learn everything you need to be a successful teacher. So let's look at that in more detail. What does that mean? What will you learn? So basically, there are 20 units in this course. 20 units that are pretty much split half and half between teaching skills and a grammar component. So we have topics like theories, methods and techniques of teaching, of course all the little techniques that you can do to have a successful lesson to have effective teaching in the classroom. We also have lessons on classroom management, very important how to ensure that everything is going smoothly, how to deal with maybe disruptions all of those things, how to minimize disruptions, how to anticipate disruptions how to deal with them, etc. Big portion on lesson planning because that is very, very, very important lesson planning, how to plan your lessons because some schools they actually don't have a fixed curriculum lesson plans for you. You need to plan your own lessons in many schools in many cases. So this is a big part of what you'll learn during the course. We also talk a lot about receptive and productive skills. Receptive skills is things like reading, reading comprehension, listening and then productive skills would be speaking and writing. So lessons on that because a good lesson basically is a mix of all of these things and how to have a good balance to ensure successful learning for your students. There's also lessons on pronunciation and phonology and especially also tips for depending on what kind of country or what, you know, native language your students have what sort of pronunciation issues might they have when they learn English, etc. Also lessons on evaluation and testing how to test your students how to evaluate there's different types of tests you can do, etc. And there's actually more than that. So for example, also basic things like parts of speech, which is actually grammar that'll be the next one. But also coursebooks and lesson materials what kind of materials you should use in your classroom what kind of coursebooks are recommended how to have a good balance to have interesting materials to have a fun class not just boring working with your textbook. There's also lessons on equipment and teaching aids what kind of teaching aids and equipment can you and should you use in your classroom and which ones maybe shouldn't you use in your classroom. Then we also have lessons on teaching special groups so that would be beginners, total beginners is very different when you teach total beginners some tips for that we're also teaching one-on-one teaching children teaching business English which is a big part in EFL teaching. So lessons on that and then we also have the grammar component here where you will learn like I said parts of speech what are nouns, what are verbs, what are adjectives, what are the functions different tenses of course and how to teach those additional, reported speech a little bit more higher level grammar topic here and then everything under the sun like modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice and this might sound very foreign to a lot of native English speakers who haven't really had this grammar training so this is very important especially for native speakers who haven't really learned English like this before so this is usually what we get in the reviews of our courses what a lot of native speakers are reporting back to us and the feedback is that they really appreciated those grammar sections because it's kind of the first time they ever heard about this stuff which is very interesting that is something that usually non-native English speakers when you've learned English yourself you're familiar with but native English speakers they will not be really familiar with that so this is the course content this is what a 120 hour course is so this is the first question let's have a look at the next one oh and I see here Kaka Dorong official followed me on Instagram thank you I appreciate that thank you so much I love it alright next this is an important question so is a 120 hour TEFL course enough to get a TEFL job that is basically the topic of today one of the big questions we are answering today so why is it always 120 hours it is 120 hours because that is now the basic international standard actually it is a minimum of 100 training hours that you should have in order to gain employment as a paid English teacher abroad or teaching English online now maybe you ask well I've seen TEFL courses that are 50 hours or 60 hours or whatever it is less than 100 hours so what about those those are good if you want to do maybe a little bit of volunteer teaching when you want to travel you do backpacking but then here and there you do want to do some teaching on the side like little gigs not professionally, not long term not extremely well paid then those TEFL courses with less hours are fine but if you want a long term career one year, two years however many years well paid in competitive locations like different countries in Asia Korea, Japan, China wherever Latin America, Europe you name it the 120 hour course has become the basic international standard these days and like I said in the beginning when you do some Google research for TEFL courses you get thousands of options you've been there probably so how do you find out which course should you take there are actually some essential criteria you should look at before making that choice this is this part make sure that these TEFL courses that you take their instruction is provided by a qualified instructor typically holding a university degree related to TESOL that they have experience in teaching that they have actually taught English abroad all of those things and then also that the certificate this certificate itself is accredited from a recognized body within the field so those are important questions basically at ITTT all of our staff all of our staff has lived abroad has taught English abroad most of us do live abroad most of us work remotely from our homes all over the world and we are teachers we have been teachers our founders have been teachers for more than 25 years they were so passionate about this that they founded ITTT yeah and all of our tutors they obviously are TEFL and TESOL certified they have degrees in teaching and ITTT also is accredited internationally we have those accreditations so that is a good place to start and then this will get you your desired teaching job abroad we have partnered ITTT if you didn't know was founded in 1997-ish so we've been around for a very long time and we have established a great network of schools around the world of teaching programs of providers, TEFL recruiters who we've been working with for years and decades who appreciate and who understand the value of our certification and who specifically hire ITTT TEFL graduates because they know our courses and we've been working with them for so long an ITTT course graduate that they get a great teacher for their school so I think that says a lot and that's why I really like ITTT and I've been staying with them for so long and I've taken many courses with ITTT so yeah here's a comment I want to read real quick from Estefani here hi I would like to ask you a question if I want to teach online will you teach how to use online apps to have a dynamic class with an interactive screen and that kind of stuff yes so we actually have a special course specifically for teaching English online as well you can check that out on our website I can also share a link real quick so you can have a look at that but that is the 170 hour course in teaching English as a foreign language with online specialization let me share that link with you real quick if I can where is it here one second because I do want to add this the discount link so you can also get your discount as well but we do have that course and I've also taken that and I taught I started teaching English online last year because of the pandemic and stuff so really before I wasn't really interested in teaching English online but things have changed and I changed my mind and I was like let's just try it and I took that course and it really helped me it goes into all the different platforms and apps like you said so here I just shared a link with you Estefani you can click on that that is the course with online specialization and you can check that out yeah you're very welcome good so yeah with this course you should be good to go to start a career in teaching English abroad or also online they're both accepted and yeah maybe now is a good time to show you the certificate and what it looks like so I'm going to make myself bigger yeah and I need to turn the blurry thing off hold on how do I do that again here here here okay I found it alright so let's just maybe get rid of this for a moment and I want to show you what the certificate looks like so if you take a 120 hour TEFL course you will receive a hard copy certificate like this in the mail wherever you live in the world you will get this and it looks like this and as you can see where it says yeah here it says 120 hour TEFL course and it will say your name obviously and when you took it and then it has the signatures of our course director and academic academic director and it's really it's a proper certificate it's a really nice paper it looks very very nice so I really like this quality is great and you might notice there is no date of expiration so this certificate never expires you take this and it's good for life so you don't have to retake this it doesn't expire nothing like that and the good thing also about this it has this number here it's kind of like a serial number where you basically give your employer when you apply for a job you attach your certificate you also get a PDF version of this so when you apply online you just attach the PDF version and then your employer can use this number to verify that this is a real and accredited TEFL certificate and that you really took it so this is very important and this is good to have because in the past there have been a lot of cases that have been so shopped their TEFL certificates believe it or not and this is how you can avoid it and this is how you can show that you really put in the work you did the work and you deserve this you worked hard for it and it is legit and real good that's just what I wanted to say alright so let's get this back on um and let's go back to the next question good so next question that we get a lot is how long does it take to complete a 120 hour TEFL class so the first thing that you want to do let's kind of start here oh you would choose a TEFL course of your liking so maybe this is the 120 hour course maybe it's another course the 220 hour 550 hour expert package whatever you choose I'm going to show you some options in a minute you choose your course, you sign up you pay for it, you get your login information and then you work through the units and depending on which course you choose so with the 120 hour course you have 6 months to complete it which is a long time which is great for people who are working full time you know you have other kind of responsibilities you don't have all the time in the world to devote to this no problem you can just work on it a couple of hours a week that's what I did because when I took this course I was working full time and I did not have that much time to work on it and I worked a couple of hours a week on it and I think it took me between 3 and 4 months to fully complete this course so it will vary on you how much time you have to study, style and all of those things with in class TEFL courses so if you choose to take an in class course it will be obviously different because those are 4 weeks long so you would actually go to the center you have to spend 4 weeks there they are roughly 8 hours a day and then you also have homework and practice teaching things and you would basically choose a training center of your choice all around the world we have ITTT as well we have places here in Korea with China we have also Latin America with Europe, Paris we have Germany we have a lot of locations in the US as well there is also a combined option actually where you complete an online portion of the course and then you come into a training center for like 5 days or 8 days or 10 days for teaching practice you can check that on the website so depending on what you want how much time you have also the budget you have available there are many different options how you can do that so yeah, you choose your course the course you want to take, you apply you fill out the application and I just want to say we do have 30% off so you can use that here when you apply you apply through our link you get your log in information if you take an online course for example um and you work through the units you have 6 months you can work at them at your own pace there is no specific time that you need to be online or anything like that you can work at that whenever you have time whatever you want with whatever device you want so you can use your phone even on the go you can do that, no problem and then you complete your course you pass then you will receive this beautiful um certificate in the mail which it takes some time to get to you depending on where you are it can take up to 2 weeks but as soon as you graduate as soon as you complete your course you get a PDF version of the certificate and basically this hard copy one you don't really um you don't really need to you don't really need to use this a lot let's say like that I barely have to use this hard copy one at all so you don't really need that but the PDF version is much more handy because you just apply online so you don't actually need to do this you have this sometimes for example teaching English in places like China or Vietnam where a TEFL certificate is a requirement you actually need to bring this to the embassy to get your visa so then you need a hard copy one but for just applying for jobs you don't need that actually after that you will apply for jobs we also have extensive post course job support here at ITTT all of our course graduates have access to that we will help you get a job in a location where you want to teach like I said earlier we have an extensive network of different recruiters and schools and places all around the world where we have built relationships with and they hire ITTT course graduates so you have access to those resources you apply you do interviews and then you start to teach so that's usually how long it takes typically we recommend starting with this whole process as early as possible so maybe like a year in advance before you want to go out and teach like I said earlier these certificates do not have an expiration date so you don't have any time pressure to go out and teach because there is no expiration the earlier you start the better because actually this is something I talked about last week I think in my life session but the earlier you start the better you have more time to think about it you have more time to look at all the options you have you have more time to apply because a lot of times people take the course and then they apply for jobs and then they're sort of in a hurry like I don't know their lease ends or they need to move or whatever so like they run out of time and they just take the first job they can get and it ends up not being that great so you want to avoid that you want to keep all your options open just start as early as possible that's what I would recommend okay before we jump into the next question here is a question from Gwen here do share I've been curious about the situation in China okay what situation in what situation the like the current EFL market or lockdowns or what are you exactly referring to actually I am planning to have a live session a guest on my live stream and I hope we will be able to work that out who is a recruiter for China and also Korea who will be going back to Asia soon and then we'll be in the same time zone so it will be easier to invite him to come on here and he'll be able to answer a lot of great questions about the current situation the current situation in China because China used to be the biggest and best market for EFL teaching and some things have changed and so I want him to come on here and talk a little bit about that so we're going to do that and Gwen said oh sorry I was replying to Juliana's comment oh okay I can't see here who you're replying to alright good she said she had some information to share about teaching in Shanghai yes okay Juliana we're going to do that in the Q&A section that'd be great alright Estefani is asking the 300 the 370 our diploma also includes teaching online alright I don't want to say anything wrong so let me just pull that up real quick and have a look yes it does it does it's on there as well I believe oh hold on oh so with the 370 if you don't have TEFL certification yet you actually need to do the 470 hour so you would have to look at that if you're not yet TEFL TEFL certified at all the 370 is kind of an upgrade from 120 so if you don't have anything yet you should do the 470 hour and this one does not include the teaching online part but if you choose the tutored option then you will have a free course and you can choose the teaching online course I believe you should check that out yeah Gwen said so sorry for the confusion no no you're good I'm looking forward to that live I hope I can make it yes I'm looking forward to it too it will probably be maybe in June or even July depending on when that recruiter comes to Asia he's currently in Europe so it's very difficult to do the live because either it be dark here or nighttime here and then there daytime so it's just too difficult to do so we will do it when he's also in Asia so we're in a similar time zone and we can better do that but yeah you will see it on our page that's why I say like and subscribe so you don't miss any of our upcoming stuff but I know you do that Gwen that's good alright so let's have a look at how much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost first thing I want to say is that you should absolutely stay away from free TEFL courses or like $10 $20 TEFL courses that you see on and where ever else just be wary of any TEFL courses costing close to nothing or offered completely free because with TEFL courses with any type of training and education you get what you pay for so cheap and free TEFL courses aren't going to get you the desired teaching job abroad they are most likely not accredited and internationally internationally recognized and they lack basic things like job assistance and even a hard copy certificate sometimes you just get a PDF you don't even get the nice certificate at all sometimes I like to compare it to a super budget cheap airline you know those the tickets are $10 but then there's all the additional costs piling up and if you don't pay you don't get the service it's kind of like that so stay away from it not a good idea not for training I'm all for budget airlines sometimes for sure but not for training not for TEFL training it's just not going to be great and think about how quick you're going to have the money back that you spend for your TEFL training you're going to have it back just with your first paycheck basically so it's not going to be a good investment but here I just wanted to show you kind of the pricing so looking at the 120 hour course this one starts at $249 US and then obviously the more hours you do the more expensive the courses are going to get and you can kind of see there's a big jump from excuse me from the 220 hour course to the 470 hours to the 450 hours which is the highest one that we offer at ITTT this is because these two courses 470 and 550 are diploma courses they are very high level and they are going to get you higher level jobs in the teaching field head teacher jobs or jobs at universities and things like that so that's why they are more expensive those are diploma courses education courses so these are the options that we have the 170 hour course here this is the one for teaching with the teaching online specialization so this one starts at $289 US and then we have to 220 hour course $349 470 is $799 so that's the big jump because it is a diploma 550 at $999 this is the highest level that we offer here I recommend actually the 220 hours that's what I have and that's what I recommend to people who if you're sure that you want to teach English you know kind of long termish not forever but like long term a year, two, three, four this is I think the best option in my opinion because it is the 120 hour course which is the standard plus two specializations the teaching English to young learners course plus teaching business English course so when you have those three things I think you'll be great you'll be golden this is great because teaching kids is very common in EFL and also teaching business English so if you have those three you'll be great so then maybe you're asking well this whole presentation is about 120 hours but now you're recommending 220 hours why because and I said this before the 120 hour course is the standard the basic standard course these days and what that means that is 90% of the teachers going abroad will have this 20 hours and if you want to go to a very competitive location like Korea or Japan or places like that very competitive or teaching government programs that are very competitive you kind of want to stand out from the other the other applicants right so if you have more training it's just going to be in your favor and the price is not even that different it's $100 different the price and reminder we have 30% off now with the code from today's live session so I'm not that good at math but it's a big discount and it's definitely worth it so I would say in my personal opinion the 220 hours is the best option but if you're sure like hey I want to do this for the rest of my life and I'm working towards teaching in a university and I want to go to the top then you should definitely focus on this part $470 and $550 so this area but this one is my personal recommendation and Gwen says that's what I took the 220 hour course I have yet to complete the business English course then I'm done so I think this is the perfect course to take these days so yeah and I just answered that who should consider taking one of the diploma courses I hope I just answered that but yeah so this is what that looks like alright good I think I have nothing more to add to this I think we're good here what is next I should have probably actually put this in the beginning but now you have a TEFL course so what can you do with a TEFL you can actually do many things so a TEFL certification actually opens doors to many exciting opportunities so you have teaching abroad you can also teach online there's also some other things you can do there's some teachers who are going into TEFL marketing kind of what I do working for a TEFL company or becoming a TEFL trainer yourself or some teachers also kind of go into the teaching material industry so I have a lot of friends here in Korea who are doing that they were teachers and now they are actually working for companies to create and develop teaching material for schools so there are a lot of different options that you can do this is really great you don't only have to teach but obviously this is what most people are doing so teaching abroad just some basic stats that I put here some hot spots are Asia for sure countries like Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan also Southeast Asia Vietnam Cambodia, Thailand those are very good we have the Middle East which is paying teaching market most of the countries there actually pay tax free salaries which is great you don't have to pay any taxes you earn a lot of money there and also Latin America you'll find a lot of positions there but usually the pay is not that great but it's not always all about money is it salaries for teaching abroad they really range between $1,000 over $5,000 so it just depends on where you teach there is no one number depends on the country depends on the city depends on the school you can't really give one answer here they just vary a lot so just do a lot of research you'll probably all have a pretty clear idea of where you want to teach you know you have a couple of favorite countries and then you just do a lot of research about those places and we did a lot of information we have a lot of information about specific countries on our website on my blog you can also find a lot of other blogs that talk about these things so just take your time and do some research that's also why I say start as early as possible there is a lot of research involved it's a big decision to move abroad so you don't want to take this lightly there are also a lot of additional perks that many employers and schools offer like paid airfare housing subsidies are completely free housing you get health insurance in many cases there is a pension plan in many cases and also bonuses like year end bonuses contract completion bonuses all of those things so but this also depends on the country you go to not always the same everywhere yeah you can also teach online with a TEFL certificate so here you can either work for a teaching platform there are many different platforms out there we did live sessions about this before you can go in our playlist and watch the one specifically for teaching online if you're interested in that or you do this all independently you can set up your own website and get students to sign up for your classes you develop your own lessons in your TEFL course like I said you'll learn how to do lesson planning so you can take that knowledge and then do this all set it up independently we had some students who have done that it takes time and effort and a bit of startup money to set up a website but it's possible and they are very successful they have their own businesses online teaching businesses and it's really great they love it you can learn online obviously when you teach independently you can set your own price but for teaching platforms it's mostly between $10 and $30 per hour and typically you can choose how many hours you want to work per week or per month so it might not always be the same salary every month so that's another thing with teaching abroad you have your set salary every month is the same but with online it might be different every month some students might not sign up every month or I have some students who I teach just once a month some students I teach once a week some students I teach twice a week so it's very different and so it will vary but yeah like I said you can do other things with your TEFL you can actually become a TEFL trainer you can work for a company to develop teaching materials like I said many different options out there for sure once you are in this field another question from Estefany for me to take the 550 hour course do I need to take the 120 hour course first? No so this 550 hour course package also includes already the 120 hour course included in that and then it all builds upon that the diploma and the other things okay let's recap real quick and then I'm going to go back to Juliana's comment she was writing about her experience in Shanghai or with Shanghai the experience so let's recap real quick if you want to teach English as a foreign language abroad or online a TEFL certificate is definitely a must have yes you can find teaching positions without a TEFL but having a TEFL certificate you'll just have more choices more opportunities it's better than not having it we talked about what is a 120 hour TEFL course it is a certificate taken by English speakers who want to teach English abroad or online so it has nothing to do with English proficiency if you want to improve your English it is not for that it is to teach English abroad or online is 120 hour TEFL course enough it is enough it is the basic international standard for gaining employment as a paid English teacher abroad or online however like I said because it is the basic international standard many teachers will have this so if you want to be better than them if you want to stand out especially if you want to go to a very competitive location it's better maybe to get additional hours I always recommend the 220 hour course which is 120 hours plus two specializations in teaching young learners children and business English that is what I have and it's really helped me and it just makes you you have more hours than 90% of other people or well 90% of the people will already have 120 hours so you want to be better than that and lastly how much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost we talked about that at ITTT it costs 249 and we have 30% off today so do the math it's a big discount and you should just really stay away from any TEFL course costing close to nothing or offered completely free they're not going to be good they're not going to get you abroad they're not accredited likely they're not going to have any post-course help support in many cases they don't even send you a hard copy certificate so just stay away from it $249 and then minus the 30% is really not a big investment you're going to get that back in your first paycheck so don't worry about that that is my recap yeah how to reach ITTT real quick you can find us on the web TEFL course e-mail us if you have any questions we talked a lot about the different courses today so if you're not sure which course is right for you e-mail us courses at tso-tefl.com and my team, my colleagues will get back to you and you can also request a callback if you want to speak with us on the phone you can do that on our website teflacourse.net it will be in the header right at the top in the middle it says request a callback you can do that and then you can speak with us on the phone as well like I said if you want to reach out to me personally at lindegos east you can do so if you want to ask something ask away if you have a problem and then we are in the Q&A section so again feel free to scan this QR code to get 30% off or I'm just going to share the link one more time so you can get this discount and take advantage of this offer here this is it with facebook live minus linda this will get you 30% off any ITTT TEFL course only 120 hours but also 220 550 whichever course you want you can get 30% off then I'm going to make myself smaller and I'm going to look at Juliana's comment now it was a very big comment let me see I'm not covered the interviewee currently works at a german international school in Shanghai due to his background and understanding of the local international school system he applied he replied to me that TESOL certified experienced teachers could still apply to teach English at an international school in Shanghai through TESOL recruiters at this moment however the demand for learning French, Japanese and Russian are higher than the demand for learning English in Shanghai and other places during these years thus and then Gwen says they have a preference for TESOL over TEFL no that's also a question we always get TESOL or TEFL what should I do they are the same thing the training involved is the exact same thing same content of the course TEFL is just a word or an acronym more commonly used in Europe and the UK and then in America and Australia the term TESOL is more preferred but the course content is the same the training is the same so don't worry whatever you prefer whether you prefer calling it TEFL or TESOL doesn't matter it's the same thing okay I'm doing good how are you doing we are already at the end of this live session and Gwen says thank you so much for today's live Linda so great to see you again so great to see you again too Gwen that's awesome alright good does anybody have any questions feel free to ask we still have a couple of minutes here before I'm signing off I just want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to ask away if you have any questions but you can also reach us here courses at TESOL-TEFL.com we'll get back to you there's the best way to reach us or just me personally if you want to reach out to me here at Linda Goes East on Instagram send me a DM that's also fine I hope to see you all again in my next live session next week I'm actually going to take a break there will be no live session next week but the week after we will be back so just look out for that that's why I say like and subscribe so you don't miss any of our upcoming stuff you get a notification on YouTube turn on that notification bell you know how it works on Facebook like our Facebook page and you'll stay up to date with stuff happening oh it was too long that's okay Estefany could you please share the link for the descuento for 550 hours yeah the discount yes okay let me see um I shared that didn't I I shared that earlier already hold on oh no I shared the 170 hour okay no problem let me get that link for you let me get that just one second I'm gonna get it ready here 550 here it is no no I I know what you mean I love it I took Spanish in school I want to get back into it I love it okay here this is the link for the 550 hour expert package with our code alright we have a question here from Amitava apart from a 120 hours in class intensive TEFL certificate course I also have the 250 hours TESOL diploma so Linda am I better off than the so called 90% of those past graduates or do I need to do any additional courses in order to boost my potential as a prospective non-native English teacher you're definitely already better than most people I would say with this training also in class course is great and then the TESOL diploma awesome what I would recommend for a non-native English teacher so if you have any kinds of English proficiency certificates like an IELTS a TEFL what's the other one like any Cambridge certificate those are also great so if you have that and then obviously you want to get as high a level as possible near native level then you're good to go I think you're good to go sounds great already Amitava alright Juliana see you next time thank you Juliana yeah Denada awesome alright well let me know if there's if there are more questions your last chance last chance to ask a question and then I'm going to sign off for today but I will be back and you can also still leave your questions in the comments here and I will get back to you even after the life we can get back to you to your comments and like I said reach out to us courses at tesol-tefl.com and my colleagues will get back to you also about your questions okay this was a fun live session thank you so much for joining today thank you so much for all of your input and feedback and Juliana for sharing that with the international schools that sounds really really great so absolutely and yeah I hope everybody is going to have a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you all next time if you have any topic suggestions and ideas let me know I'm always curious and looking for new ideas what I can talk about um but yeah this is some good stuff and um yeah don't forget the 30% off thing if you're not yet certified alright let me talk about one more question here thank you so much Linda for your kind and supportive appreciation can you share some English proficiency links like CELTA CELTA is not an English proficiency certificate either but that would be the well then if you just google English proficiency oh here Cambridge certificate of proficiency those ones are good um yeah and like I said IELTS and um um Tuftle here I just found a good article you can read that that should cover a lot of English proficiency here this one so if you have one of those those are good and then as Stefani is asking what is the due date or when is the due date for the discount so the discount does not expire um you can also fill out your application and send it off and then there's also no requirement to pay right away you can also do that you can just fill out your application and then pay later when you're ready that's also an option okay alright then I think I'm gonna sign off now for today thank you so much for watching I had a lot of fun today I hope you learned something new and I learned a lot from you guys as well so thank you so much for being here for having been here and um I hope to see you all next time thank you for your questions have a wonderful weekend and then I'm gonna sign off now alright bye guys thank you bye bye