 Hello. Hi and welcome to another live session. My name is Linda and this live stream is hosted by ITTT, the International Teflon TESOL Training. Welcome back again this week. We go live every week so if this is your first time watching, hello and welcome. If you've watched before, welcome back. Thanks so much for joining again this week and this week's topic is teaching English abroad without any experience, how you can do it, all the tips and tricks and everything that's involved with that. So yeah, thanks so much for being here again today. Please let me know where you are right now in the world. Where are you right now? Where are you watching from? I am actually in South Korea. It is 10 a.m. Friday morning. Super exciting. I'm so happy to be here usually. This is my usual time for going live actually, but sometimes we switch the times to reach different kinds of people all over the world so that everyone has the chance to join our live session at least once. 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One time it's me and one time my colleague Lisa, who is a non native English teacher from Russia, who has taught English in China. And she's currently back in Russia teaching mostly online. And she has a lot of great experience on that front. So I highly recommend checking her out as well. Excuse me. I have some throat issues this morning. But we're gonna make the best out of it. Thank you guys so much. Hi. Hi, we have Lala in Canada. That's awesome. Tida, Leila from Morocco. Awesome. Jesse from San Jose in California planning on teaching these coming years. It's great. Marcia is here. Hi, Marcia. Yeah. Sorry. Oh, somebody from Nepal. That's great. I really want to go back to Nepal. I visited in 2019. And it was amazing. Anyway. Hi, Juliana, watching from Illinois 8 p.m. Great. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here tonight or today, wherever you are watching from. But I think for a lot of you guys, it's night time. Like I said, it's morning time for me. I'm in South Korea. 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And you can also, what I recommend to everyone here, browsing our live video playlist. So on Facebook and also on YouTube, we keep our live sessions in a playlist. So you can browse that because we did a lot, a lot of topics already covered already. So you can go back and see, you know, what was interesting to you and then watch that. There's a lot of info for non-native English speakers as well. Okay. Great. All right. I think let's jump into it right now. Thank you so much for being here and being so active in the comments. I really appreciate it. As always, feel free to ask away in the comments and I'll get back to you. And there's also going to be a Q&A session at the end when I'm done with my slides and what I prepared. So I just want to make sure that everybody has the chance to ask away their questions. Don't worry about that. All right. Then, yeah, let me make myself smaller and look at the slides. So first off, I would like to introduce myself a little bit. So my name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda Goes East. East because I am originally from Germany and the US. And I've been pretty much based in Asia since 2012. I lived in China and now I've been living in South Korea for six years already. If you're interested in my own content, you can check it out at lindegoseast.com and also on Instagram at lindegoseast. I love sharing my photography and my travel tips and just fun stuff about Korea and Asia in general on there. So go check that out. And yeah, I'm also a Teflentiso marketing professional for ITTT. That stands for International Teflentiso Training and you can find ITTT at Teflcourse.net and also on Instagram at International Tefl Training and on all other social as well. Some of you are watching on Facebook. Some of you are watching on YouTube. So we are on there as well, very active. And ITTT is a leading Teflentiso course provider worldwide. So we provide courses for people who want to teach English as a foreign language abroad and other countries or online or also in their home country. So those kinds of things. We have a wide variety of different courses. I'm going to touch on them a little bit in this live session. But always feel free to yeah, click on the link that I shared with you. You can browse the courses there and you can also get 30% off if you decide to take one. So just recommend that. Then yeah, let's talk a little bit about today's topic. If my computer cooperates. Okay, there we go. So yes, teaching English abroad without any experience. Is it possible? How is it possible? What can you do to achieve this goal? Yeah, so let me tell you, it's actually easier than you might think. It's a lot easier. Actually, I when I first started did not have any experience. When I taught English in China, I did not have any experience. Most of the people that I meet in China and in Korea who are teaching our first time teachers and they do not have any experience. And so how come? Basically, what you need to keep in mind is that the demand for English teachers for English language instructors outstrips supplies. So there are more vacant positions for teachers than there are actually teachers to fill them with. So that's why it is totally possible to find a teaching job abroad without any experience. It's a lot easier than some of you might think. But there's certainly a couple of things you need to consider and a couple of things that you can do to ensure that you can go and teach abroad where you want to go and teach abroad. So let's take a look at where you can teach English abroad without any experience. So with no experience. And as you can see, there's quite a lot of places. And actually, there's these aren't even all the places where you could go, obviously, there's a lot more than that. There's a lot more than that. But pretty much as you can see, we have Central and South America, we have North Africa, we have the Middle East, we have Europe, and we have Asia. So actually, Asia is a huge market. Asia is the biggest market for ESL for English as a second language or EFL English as a foreign language. So most people typically with no experience, they either go to Asia or South America, I would say, but Asia is definitely the most popular. And so right of the bat, I want to share with you a sheet, a spreadsheet that I made and you can actually go in there and it has all the countries listed. Let me share the link with you and then you guys can click on that, you can see it. And you can also save it for your future reference. Okay. So let me share that link with you. And then this is something that you can keep and refer to. Let me see. So you can see the Google Stocks link right now. And you can just click on that. I also have it open. Yeah, I see some people already looking at it, I think. And I'm just going to share that with you. And I'm going to show you how to work with the sheet, basically. Okay. All right. So yeah, this is what the sheet looks like. And as you can see, so the best thing to do actually is to go in here, file, and then make a copy. And then you can make a copy for yourself. And then this copy you can actually edit. This one is now only View Only, I think. It should be only View Only so you can't edit it. Yeah. So this is what it looks like. As you can see, it's sorted by continents. So down here, we have Asia, we have Europe, we have South and Central America, and we have Middle East and Africa. And I highlighted this column right here, which is about teaching experience. So those are all the countries where you need or don't need teaching experience. So teaching experience, no, no, no, yes. So India would be not suitable. No, no, yes, preferred, preferred. So sometimes when it says preferred, that means teaching experience is preferred, but it's still possible to find a job without teaching experience there as well. And there's a lot of other information on this sheet as well. As you can see, there's average monthly salary. Then there's a section whether or not a degree is required or not. When the typical start of a school year is, if you need teaching experience, and also like the benefits included, housing, flights included, yes or no. And then also here's a column if it's suitable for non-native English speakers. So that might be interesting for Emmy here. And then also age restrictions because it's also a question we get asked quite a lot. You know, I'm older. Can I still go abroad and teach English? So this is a great sheet to have for you if you want to go abroad to teach, not only if you don't have teaching experience, but in general, so you can refer to the sheet and you can pick out a suitable country. So please go ahead and just save this sheet for yourself and you can really work with this. So as you can see here, Europe, for example, there are no age restrictions whatsoever. So this is great for older people because as you can see in Asia, for example, there are some where the retirement age is actually 60 or around 60. So people who are older than that might have some issues finding a job abroad. But yeah, today is about teaching experience. So that's why I highlighted this column in green so you can easily see which countries are suitable and which aren't. So yeah, that's just for you to have and you can save that and then you can refer back to it for reference. But as you can see, there are so many, so, so many places where you can teach English without any experience. So definitely good stuff here. Okay, then let's move on with my slides. Let me just get that back. Good. Okay. So I just wanted to share this sheet with you so you can have it. You can save that and you can just refer back to it at your own convenience. And there's so much more information on those sheets except besides the teaching experience. So yeah, you're very welcome. Jay says, thanks for all your help. Happy to watch your life. Thank you so much, Jay. I appreciate that. Okay, good. So that was the sheet and where you can teach English abroad without any experience. As you can see, there's so many countries to choose from. So now we're going to talk about, I'm going to share with you four tips for finding a mindful job without experience, without teaching experience. So just four things that you can do to basically make sure, you know, to enhance yourself and to get the best possible base or like the best possible start to your English teaching career abroad basically. All right. So first up we have obviously you should get TEFL certified. So that is a very important part, not only especially actually if you have no teaching experience obviously because a TEFL certificate, a TEFL course teaches you how to teach. So if you don't have any teaching experience, take a TEFL course and you will get those skills even though they will be, you know, you'll learn about them theoretically, you will still be able to apply them in your classroom and you will sort of know what you're doing. It's a good base to have for sure. And basically you should choose a TEFL course that is at least 120 hours in duration. So study hours and from an accredited course provider. That is very important. There's so many course providers out there. Some even have like a $20 TEFL, I don't even know $20 TEFL course that's like 20 hours and from Groupon or I don't even know. Those are not accredited and those are not good enough to be accepted by employers worldwide to stay away from stuff like that. I don't recommend that at all. It's a way so you time in your money even if it's just $20 but it's not going to get you anywhere. So with TEFL courses, with any kind of education really what you pay is what you get usually. So if your course, if a TEFL course is free, you're probably not going to get much in return in terms of extra benefits. You might have to even pay for your certificate to get shipped to you. You have to pay for like the actual hardcover certificate. All the extra things you need to pay for and then those things are actually going to, it's going to pile up and it's actually going to be quite expensive or comparable to a course provider like ITTT where you pay a certain amount and everything is included. So we ship your certificate to you anywhere in the world for free and all of those things you have lifetime job support. I'm actually going to talk about that as well in a bit but yeah just for now keep in mind to get TEFL certified or TESOL certified of at least 120 hours from an accredited course provider. That is the international standard with 120 hours these days and it's also very beneficial for you to take a specialized TEFL course. So for example teaching English online or Business English or Young Learners I would say especially because today we're going to talk about going abroad to teach so obviously the teaching English online specialization might not be so suitable. So I would definitely say Business English or especially Young Learners. So this is going to depend on where you will go but especially here in Asia most teachers are teaching Young Learners so starting from kindergarten all the way to university, high school university so if you have that Young Learners certificate that is definitely going to be an additional boost for you and down here are just some options from ITTT that I would recommend so this is the basic 120 hour course then we also have a 220 hour master package which actually includes the 120 hour course plus the Business English and Young Learners certificate and then we have a 470 hour professional package which also includes all of that plus a TESOL diploma course and then we have the 550 hour which also includes all of that plus the teaching English online plus some teaching hours practice observed teaching practice I believe so you can find all of these options on our website and check them out in detail before you make your decision but basically obviously the more training the more hours you have the better this is the minimum that you should have the 120 hour but it depends on you know where you want to teach then you should go higher obviously you know if it's a more competitive area the more you have the better but yeah just check them out and like I said you do get 30% off with the link that I shared with you so yeah make your decision we also did some live sessions before about which TEFL course to choose which TEFL course is right for me for you so you can check that one out where I go in depth of all of these courses and course options so then maybe you can make a decision after that but today I'm not going to go into all of them in detail but just to let you know that it's what to keep in mind from this is definitely get TEFL certified and at least 120 hours from an accredited course provider all right good then we have the second tip or step is choosing a destination so Asia South America Southern and Eastern Europe they're all great options if you don't have any teaching experience yet this again you can refer to the sheet that I just shared with you and check out all the locations in Asia and South America in Southern and Eastern Europe to figure out which one interests you the most it's also worth knowing that the biggest TEFL job markets are in the in the world can be found in China in Japan in South Korea in Thailand and Vietnam and also some other emerging countries definitely but those are the biggest especially China and Japan South Korea Thailand and Vietnam are very very big markets at the moment still there they there have been some issues in China lately so maybe you don't want to focus on that right now but Japan South Korea Thailand Vietnam still great and as you can see all of them are in Asia so Asia is really the biggest market for TEFL jobs but if you don't want to go to Asia no problem as you can see there's also other destinations also something to keep in mind is that many countries require their teachers to have a bachelor's degree so it's very important to research the requirements to make sure that you're eligible so that is one of the first steps you should do think about the destination where you want to go and then see you know what are the requirements so that's also where the sheet comes in handy that I just shared with you because there's also a column saying whether or not you need a degree so you can also check that out but yeah choosing the right destination is definitely a good strategy so first you want to take a TEFL course and then you want to choose a destination where you want to go and teach and then next up obviously then you need to also prepare your TEFL CV or resume so I actually did a live session about this before as well I go in depth of really how to do a TEFL resume a teaching resume so go check that out I'm not gonna go too much into detail now but basically especially if you don't have any experience right you're worried well I don't have any experience what can I put in my resume what can I put on there it's not gonna it's not gonna be a very long resume I don't have experience so that's what a lot of people are worried about but yeah don't worry don't worry important let's talk about this first so on your resume obviously there's no room for errors especially if you don't have any experience but just in general no errors should be on your resume so no spelling errors no grammar errors something like that you also should include your complete contact details and date of birth and also a professional photo of yourself so it's definitely a good idea to you know go and have pictures taken for sure and then skills and qualifications so that's the important part about when you apply for a job without any experience so any language skills you should definitely put on there also any kind of experience abroad so whether that was you know an exchange semester abroad or kind of any kind of any kind of time that you spent abroad will definitely be a huge plus and be recognized and then also any kind of experience related to teaching or leading managing a group so even if you don't have actual teaching experience maybe you have tutoring experience or maybe you have experience you know managing kind of like a church group or something like that or like a sports group or you teach some children it doesn't even have to be like English teaching but any kind of teaching so if you're like a if you teach children how to play the piano or something like that that's definitely also a plus so anything that is remotely related to teaching someone something you should definitely put on there if you don't have any experience and then obviously what you also put on there is you know your educational background your language skills any other qualifications obviously also your TEFL certificate would go on there so then you already have something that's related to teaching on your resume when you have your TEFL or TESOL course yeah and then I'm actually going to mention some other things that you can do to boost your resume to make it look more like a teaching resume in just a bit but let me just finish this fourth part here so after that you would apply for jobs and what's important to know is that all ITTT students they actually have lifetime job assistance access to lifetime job assistance from ITTT you can also find jobs on online job boards so especially linked in esl cafe jubal and all of these other sites down here and I actually also did a live session about how to teach in Europe how to teach in Asia and I named specific job boards or online job websites there so you can check it out so for example expats check republic this would be for if you want to go to the check republic but any kind of expat group is great esl base is great the guardian jobs this is great for europe and also they have some other jobs in other countries as well but yeah glass door also linked in is great and then also any kind of Facebook groups there's a lot of Facebook groups for like teachers in Korea teachers in China so those those kinds of groups if you join them you can network and find job offers there and connect with people so that's also really good and then I also recommend EFL recruitment agencies I know a lot of people are worried about recruitment agencies they think it's like a scam but there's so many trustworthy recruiters out there actually and the great thing about recruiters is that obviously they know the market they know the market very well and they come at no cost to you to the teacher the school pays the recruiter the teacher never pays the recruiter so this is a service that you can take advantage of completely free so I definitely recommend doing that and also obviously an independent job search on yeah all of those sites and what you can also do the Facebook groups forums you can also reach out to former ITTT course grants on our Facebook page if you browse the reviews for example you can also um I forgot this point just slip my mind oh yes you can also what you can do if you know where you want to go you can pull up for example google maps and then put in the city where you want to go and then just put in English language school in that city and you just contact the language school directly that's another way to go about so basically yeah those are all great tips for finding jobs also if you don't have any teaching experience yet so those are the places where you can definitely go and look for jobs next up yes I just want to go a little bit more in depth of the ITTT job support if people don't know so this is something that we offer to all of our Teflon TESOL course graduates it never expires and this job support entails basically access to our database of potential employers um you get exclusive leads on unadvertised jobs um also advice on constructing a high quality CV or resume so you can actually write your own resume then show it to us and we just give you some pointers how to make it better perhaps and we take a look at it also same goes for writing the cover letter and we also help you with planning a trial lesson for job interviews because sometimes when you have an interview lined up they ask you to hold a quick mock lesson or a trial lesson and we can also help you with that so that you can totally smash that interview and get hired all right good now those are some bonus tips that I just want to mention so basically what you can do to enhance further enhance your resume so definitely take advanced and specialized Teflon certification courses so we like we said the 120 hours is the minimum so what you can do is take specialized courses on top of that so that is the 50 hour teaching business English course the 50 hour teaching English to young learners course and also um teaching English online course that those are our specialized courses that we offer so if you have that that's just an additional boost that will give you um a great looking resume then if you really don't have any teaching experience what you can do before um you start applying um during your process of maybe getting your Teflon certificate or just during um yeah once you know okay I want to go abroad so these are the steps that you can take you can just do some volunteer teaching either in your community or anywhere abroad you can also there's so many volunteer teaching positions obviously they're unpaid but at least that gets you some teaching experience and that looks really good on your resume another point online teaching that's also great to gain initial experience and you get paid so um if you don't want to do unpaid work you can definitely do online teaching there's so many different platforms out there and Lisa both Lisa and I my colleague Lisa and I we did um a lot of different life sessions about teaching English online especially recently because it's just so popular so if that's something that interests you go check out our previous live sessions about teaching English online and then you will find out how to do that but yeah if your plan is to go abroad and teach actually now is a super great time to gain experience teaching English online and then I already mentioned that a little bit but um yeah joining online forums and Facebook groups for networking so there are so many groups for like English teachers in Korea English teachers in Spain or whatever you'll find a Facebook group or a forum expat websites and then you can do some networking there and see what you can do to enhance or get some tips from people who are actually there and also network and there's a lot of people who are like hey I'm leaving my school my school needs a new teacher and then they usually look for a new teacher is also through groups like that through direct networking like this so yeah those are some great bonus tips and I just have a question here so I want to check that out and that's actually a really great question so Brian is actually asking if I have only the online TEFL certificate can I get a job abroad yes absolutely so I only have the online TEFL certificate and I was able to find a job in China and in Korea as well so it's true that maybe 20 years ago the in-class TEFL course certificates were more like highly regarded but these days the online certificate and the in-class certificate are pretty much really on the same level most people really do the online course because of all the benefits because it's just easy to do from anywhere in the world the the course content is all the same like the in-class course except of course for the online you don't have the teaching practice yeah and you're saying I'm not a native speaker yeah that's no problem so um I don't know when you tuned in but at the beginning of the session I actually shared a google sheet um where you can see different columns like I don't have teaching experience I'm not a native English speaker so you can figure out which country you can go to so I don't know if you've um if you saw that but you can see it in the comments it's a google docs spreadsheet and you can check that out and he says in China and Korea they care about that a lot they do so um maybe China and Korea are not countries where you you know should go um there are a lot of other countries where non-native English speakers with no experience can go certainly so um check out that sheet I still have it open on my end but um there's so many places and you can navigate you can see if there's a degree required or not if teaching experience is required or not and if it's suitable for non-native English speakers so yeah um yeah I just actually looked at Cambodia I was looking at the sheet and um Cambodia yeah it looks great for you so um definitely you know there's so many options and then once you are in there it's like once you already once you have like your first teaching position from there you get a lot of experience but also a lot of networking you can make connections and then you can improve and find a better school or a better school in a different country and things like that so um it doesn't mean that you need to stay there forever at this certain school in this certain location it's all about growing and improving and um taking the next steps to um yeah better schools better salaries etc etc so um yeah good great all right let me know if there are any questions about these tips bonus tips and now we can go into the Q&A part of today's live session so now is your time to ask your questions about today's topic about anything related to teaching abroad or online or our TEFL courses I also have my certificate always here so if you have a question about that I can answer that as well but ITTT about Korea about China about anything um you can you're free to um you know go ahead and I see I think I missed a question here from Marcia so I just want to look at that real quick so she says I want a scholarship some years ago to stay in Scotland for a month attending a course to refresh teaching methodologies that should be useful yeah that sounds really great definitely you should do that why not especially if you want that that's great everything free is great right awesome congratulations that's great also just a reminder here to check out the 30% off so you can scan this QR code or I'm just going to share the discount link one more time the comments so you can have a look at that yep it looks like this and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode the link the discount link will be in the description as well don't worry but yeah good okay then I'm going to make myself a little bit bigger here my throat today I don't know what's wrong I apologize all right good I hope I didn't go through my slides too quickly I'm worried now but do let me know if you have any questions I can go back to somewhere or we can take a look at the sheet again if you have any questions do let me know the worst thing that could happen is somebody's you know leaves today's session confused I really don't want that so any question you might have just ask away I don't want anybody to be confused about something or you know shy don't be shy ask your questions there are no stupid questions don't worry about that yeah I just want to give everybody the opportunity to ask their questions okay yeah I'm just thinking if I forgot anything to mention anything but I think I didn't also if you have any topic suggestions for upcoming live sessions also feel free to let me know always open to topic suggestions and maybe it's something we already did and I can point you to that specific video as well but yeah okay Brian says so on your YouTube channel why don't show people who got the in-class training oh yeah we actually do that though there are videos about that as well um you can check it out there are testimonials of people who took um the in-class course there are also some videos of people who took the in-class course we do have that yeah yes it's on there there is a playlist um called testimonials and there are a lot of online testimonials because nowadays people just take more online courses but they're also in-class testimonials on there as well and also on like the website itself there's like pictures and videos as well okay Marcia said I already went to Scotland and took that course in methodologies so I meant that it should be important to include that in my CV yes absolutely yeah good that sounds like a really great experience I've always wanted to go to Scotland anyway awesome yes definitely put that on your resume all right Chad I'm doing the 120 hour course but I'm not quite finished oh congratulations that's so exciting congratulations so soon you'll hold this certificate in your hands or actually which one is it this one yes this certificate 120 hour congratulations awesome oh Flavia has a topic suggestion so maybe a live about countries where we can get citizenship if we work there as an ESL teacher oh wow I'm not quite sure because that's very specific and we are not from an embassy or any kind of government institution and the laws really vary from country to country so that is something really difficult to do but I can tell you about South Korea that you can get citizenship here they have a point system where you can get citizenship but you need to be able to speak Korean you need to take a course and you need to spend a couple of years here but it's not impossible but yeah that would definitely be interesting information I agree with that all right then we have a question here from English teacher is it a lifetime certificate or should we update it continuously that's a great question so this certificate never expires they never expire so um yeah I got mine in 2015 I mean it's not that long ago but yeah your TEFL certificate never expires it is good for life obviously it's good to um stay up to date um in general unlike teaching things um but yeah you don't need to update your certificate you can always take you know another specialized course to upgrade it so I recommend that okay Jed Chad says I also paid for the TYL in Business English but have to finish that 120 hour course first yes yeah that sounds like the 220 hour package that you have yes so everything uh basis off of the 120 hour course that's why you need to take that first because that's the initial uh that yeah the first step of your TEFL certification that teaches you all the basics all the things you need to know and everything all the other courses that come after build upon that so that's why you need to take that one first but I think that's great so actually that's what I also have the master package this is what I have right here and you can either choose so that's what I did I actually when I took the course they didn't have the package yet so you had to purchase all of these individually which is more expensive so now that they have the package or we ITTT has the package it's cheaper but um so you can either choose to have your um the master package you get three individual certificates like this or one certificate that says 220 so that's a great thing so I actually have that too this is my young learners this is Business English and then this is the normal 120 and then I also have the teaching certificate and teaching English online so that one that's the newest one I got that last year this I think that's when the course came out as well in 2020 so yeah I recommend that I actually also started teaching English online this year which has been super exciting um especially during this time where everybody went online for learning languages and new skills and stuff so that was really great so I recommend that if you're yeah if you're looking for something um you know teaching job then teaching English online is really great I recommend it and actually I think last week was it last week I did a live session about teaching English online last week or the week before so do check that out that was really interesting as well okay awesome all right let's take a couple more questions before I sign off I still have some time so if you are curious about something do let me know okay great question English teacher asks how long does it last on does it last online courses so how long did the online online courses take to complete and how much do we pay all right um so it depends on which course you take for example the the 120 hour course the one that I took or the one that one that's the standard that one takes you have up to six months to complete that course but a lot of people actually completed quicker I completed it in I think four months but I was also working full time at the same time so it depends on how much time you have you have up to six months to do it but most people um get it done before that and then how much do we pay um if you go to Teflcourse.net or let me show you on here real quick with everyone um because it really depends on the course we have so many different options so they all have different prices but let me show you real quick okay uh this one so this is what the website looks like okay and so you go to courses and then you'll see um all the different options so these are the online courses online courses here and this is the 120 hour so this starts at 249 that's without tutor and then I think 339 with tutor and all of our courses they always come with tutor and without tutor yes 339 with tutor and the tutor um is basically there to guide you through the course to help you you can ask the tutor questions if you didn't understand anything it's just a little bit more support so it depends on you know on your personal teaching or learning learning style you know do you are you fine with just learning studying on your own or you know do you need someone by your side then you would go with tutor support so that's that okay then we have Henry here asking a question the Tefl certification you showed moments ago where did you get it the one that never expires Cambridge no hold on this one yeah so this one is from ITTT international Tefl and TESOL training so that's also what where you the channel that you're watching on on YouTube this is ITTT's channel so this is our Tefl certificate and um I think you just tuned in so you actually can get a 30 percent discount if you use the discount link I'm just going to share that one more time so you can go check that out check out the website for more information and you can get 30% off any ITTT Tefl course all right then chat asked is the master certificate more flashy um I think it's the same I'm not quite sure I think all ITTT certificates look the same I mean it's a really nice certificate it's a really nice paper it's not just normal regular paper this is a real nice certificate it would probably look a little bit more flashy if I put it in a nice frame you know but I just I have it like this so I can easily show people during my live sessions but this is actually a really nice certificate it's really really nice and it also has the little thing here it's really pretty I like it it I mean you you don't really need to show it to anybody anyway right you also get a PDF copy of all of your certificates so that's just so easy when you apply for stuff so okay I love this Brian says I'm tired of teaching online I want to see the world yes me too that's true yeah I yeah I get it all right hey Juliano it's been a while how are you okay Juliano is asking which one of them do you recommend Linda I know there are many different courses and prices on ITTT there are yes okay let's look at this again let's go back um to the overview so it really depends on your goal you know what you want to do so um you know 120 hour course that's really the basic one that's the one that the minimum you should have let's say this one is especially if you want to teach English online then this one's great I actually really recommend the this one the master package because I think it's just I think it's the best one for me personally so this includes the 120 hour certificate the business English certificate and the teaching English to young learners certificate so those three courses are included in this master package and I think that's really for teaching abroad all you need and then if you're like okay now I taught English abroad for a few years now I want to go more I want to go higher maybe aim for a more like head teacher kind of position um then you would do the diploma course this one um yeah or if you know that that is your goal right of the bat uh you can take this one which is 120 hour business English young learners enter the plumber and then the 550 hour that's the highest level that we offer at it tt oh you can't see that really well that's the highest level that we offer at it tt this is everything that this one includes plus um uh where is that oh let's click on this hold on plus teaching hours let's have a look yeah plus practicum so that's all of the um other things yeah here can you see that so 120 hour plus 50 hour business English plus teaching English to young learners plus teaching online plus diploma plus and this is um what really sets this course apart 30 hour certificate of teaching practice recognition so that is actual teaching practice but we also have this course separately so if you for example have the 120 hour course you can also take the 30 hour certificate of teaching practice recognition individually and then you have the 120 hour course plus some teaching practice um so yeah all right great question Brian says deep right the highest level in class so the in class course is oh the in class course is basically everything that you learn in the 120 hour course plus um teaching actual teaching practice so with the in class course you spend four weeks in a location of your choice we have a lot of different locations for in class um and yeah I think you have class Monday to Friday morning until late afternoon I believe and um you actually teach also um students there so it's a bit different but it's you don't learn business English or you don't learn teaching English to young learners you don't learn how to teach online it's not the diploma either so it's it's a little bit different yeah okay good good questions thank you so much all right we have a little bit more time um but let me share this one with you again so people don't miss out on this discount I know that's why a lot of people come here to get the 30 percent off because we only share that during our live sessions so if you're not yet qualified certified um that's really a great thing to check out right here so yeah all right I'm just gonna wait a little bit longer for maybe one more last question and then I'm gonna sign off for today but um thank you so much for watching today it was really really great thank you so much for asking all of your questions I really appreciate that um and I hope you learned something new today hopefully and um yeah I can't wait to all uh to speak with you all again next week I will be here again next week um haven't decided on the time yet but I think I'm not sure we'll see so that's why I always say um like and subscribe so you don't miss any of the upcoming live sessions so um please do that yeah sure you're welcome Brian says thank you a lot I wish you the best thank you I wish you the best as well Juliana thank you so much thank you Juliana all right then I think I'm just gonna sign off looks like maybe there's no more questions coming um if you have a question later on you can just leave them in the comments and I will get back to you anyway so don't worry about that and you can also reach out to me directly here on Instagram I know some of you have done that and I really appreciate it it's so fun to connect with you all so if you want to ask something you know more private or like I mean that you don't want everyone to see here in the chat you can just do that um if you have a more specific and detailed question no problem you can just message me here on Instagram you can also reach out to ittt if you go to our website there's a contact us um page so you can reach out oh yeah oh no I just got here yes we are actually done for today but feel free to um watch the replay and um if you have any questions like I just said you um I will get back to you also in the comments later on so don't worry about that but yeah thank you so much for watching today and um I hope you're staying safe um you're staying happy and you're gonna have a wonderful weekend and um yeah I hope to all see you again next week and yeah I think uh yeah I'm gonna sign up thank you Marcia thanks so much all right guys and don't forget to take advantage of this 30 percent off check out the link in the description and in the comments and in you know where to find it you know where to find it and then yeah I'm gonna sign off so thank you guys so much until next time 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