Cactus TEFL Podcast

Sarah Wilson & Jenny Johnson feed back on the One Life Live Show. Many visitors were interested in hopping across from teaching in the state sector, to teaching English abroad.

Podcast contents

* Where a lot of state school teachers want to go to teach English

* Why state school trained teachers are well prepared for teaching TEFL abroad

* TEFL conversion courses

* Using an online TEFL course to convert to TEFL

* Can state school teachers switch into TEFL in the UK?

* ESOL & skills for life qualifications

Podcast contents

* One life Live Show

* Choosing the right course

* Costs of courses

* Taking a course abroad

* 4-week courses vs. other TEFL courses

* Online vs. face-to-face courses

* Issues around having to quit work to be able to do a 4-week course

* Trying to fix up work before you quit

* Taster days

* Using a weekend TEFL course to see if you like TEFL

What are the advantages of taking a diploma level qualification? How and where can you do these?

How do you get to become a teacher trainer, and what’s the money like?

Jenny Johnson explains the options available to practising TEFL teachers who never took a formal course.

Find out what options are available to you when you’ve been teaching a few years now, and you’re ready to progress.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is a hot topic in the state sector. Jenny Johnson gives tips on how teachers, faced with teaching more and more pupils whose first language is not English, can face up to the ESOL challenge.

Find out more about Commenius courses. What they are, where you can do them and why you should bother.