ITTT

Being an Applied Linguistics major focuses a lot on teaching. As an undergraduate I hated the idea of teaching. It didn't sound fun, and I'm quite introverted so being in front of a crowd of people having to explain things to them scared the living daylights out of me!

However, things change, and one day I decided I wanted to go to Korea one day to teach. But by the time I had this figured out I was almost done with my Bachelor's degree and it was going to cost more time and money to get my TEFL at my university.

So I went on the hunt. Doing my usual blogging on Tumblr I ran across Tiffany who was teaching in Korea at the time, and received her TEFL through this company. So I decided to do some research and look into it too!

I decided this would be the best company for me as well. They were the only company where I could see actual teachers teaching after getting their TEFL there. While I'm sure getting a TEFL or TESOL from your university would be the BEST option. If you don't have that option, this one is a close second!

So I personally signed up for the 120 hour program with a tutor. I never actually used the tutor. While it was nice having it just in case, I don't personally recommend spending the extra money for something unless you have a learning disorder (like, dyslexia, or test anxiety, etc)

I did really well. There are a series of lessons you read, then you take a quiz (which you must keep a 75% grade with all the quizzes or you don't pass) after you finish the lessons/quizzes you work on a lesson plan that you send to someone to review. Which you get 3 tries on that.

It's straightforward and easy enough. I highly recommend it to everyone interested in teaching abroad or teaching ESL, where they are.

ITTT contacted me an offered me a discount code for anyone who is interested. When you use my code you can get 15% off of any class you choose to go through.

Their courses start as low as $190

All you need to do is visit www.teflmate.com/apply/ and be sure to enter the code MELINDAC15 in the coupon box towards the bottom of the application for. This will give you the 15% off!

One quick note! It's a British company, so spellings and phrasings are a bit off for those of us in the US. but nothing too crazy, but some sentences might give you a giggle or catch you off guard.