Tefl / Tesl Course Features

Teach English as a Foreign or Second Language
& Teach English Abroad

Course Features

There are many TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate courses available, each designed to meet individual needs. For example online TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate courses are offered for those who do not have the time to attend an intensive TEFL/TESL/TESOL course.

The most widely accepted TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate courses, and therefore the ones which employers prefer their teachers to attend, are 4 weeks long and have an element of practice teaching with genuine students of English.

If you choose a course, which does not meet the following international TEFL/TESL/TESOL course standards, you might be putting your employment potential at risk.

All internationally recognized TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate courses must have the following features:

One of ITTO´s key features is our ability to offer our students guaranteed paid job placement in Mexico and contacts worldwide for those graduates who would like to teach elsewhere. Our students often stay in Mexico to teach, but we frequently place students in other locations around the world. To give you an example, we have graduates teaching in Thailand, Japan, Ecuador, and many other countries around the globe. Our job guidance is a lifelong commitment to our graduates. We continually help our students find jobs throughout their teaching careers.

We assist our students in finding living arrangements here in Guadalajara. ITTO has secured discounts with posadas and hotels located within walking distance of our institute, and offers the option of living with one of our carefully selected Mexican host families. In the past, students who have known they would stay and teach in Guadalajara have found apartments on their own.

At ITTO, we also try to accommodate our students by allowing them time for extracurricular activities. We offer cultural exchange groups and academic lectures for those wishing to expand their cultural awareness and Spanish capabilities, tours of our city, Guadalajara, free salsa and guitar lessons for those interested, and excursions outside the city such as LakeChapala and Tequila, home of our national drink. We are also able to offer our students discounts around the city, such as memberships to Gold’s Gym, a local swimming facility, and discount ceramic classes. Lastly, for trainees interested in taking Spanish lessons, our partner EFL school offers a 5% discount for those students at ITTO who enroll in their Spanish program.

The TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate course at ITTO offers all of the above elements and even surpasses some. We offer 140 hours of training, 10 hours of teaching practice, and the opportunity to observe experienced ESL/EFL teachers in the classroom.

At ITTO, our course follows a communicative approach and an immersion technique. Our students attend morning input session, which are guided by our professional trainers, and afternoon teaching practices with genuine English students at our partner EFL school. Our course covers the following areas: classroom management, teaching skills, language awareness (grammar), phonology and teaching practice.

We also offer our students free and unlimited access to our Self-Access Multimedia Lab with over 40 computers and a variety of different language programs. Our Language Lab includes the CALL program, Computer Assisted Language Learning.

We aren’t saying you won't find employment without the previously stated features, but rather teachers who have successfully completed a TEFL/TESL/TESOL certificate course that includes those features are more likely to become employed than teachers who have not attended such a course.

For our course dates and more information on becoming qualified to teach English abroad, please visit the ITTO website.

Tefl Certificate Courses
Teach English Worldwide and get paid for it!

- Tefl / Tesl Certification in Guadalajara, Mexico -
Guaranteed paid job placement in Mexico upon successful academic completion of your Tefl Course!