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Kate (kkcat)
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Online Teaching Course
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My dear colleagues, have you ever heard about online TEFL Certification Courses? Have you taken them? What do you think about this way of getting teaching certificates? I am interested in this and would love to listen to the opinions of people who have done this before or have thought about it before. Thank you in advance and have a great Sunday! 
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6 Sep 2009
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bamarcia
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Hi Kate,
I �ve never taken any online courses, but I am considering enrolling for the DELTA online course offered by Bell Schools, I �ve taken their courses in the UK in different occasions and they are a respectable institute. I �ve been sending students and teachers to their in-house courses for almost two decades and never had a single problem. On the contrary, I only have praise to them. Let me know if you decide on a course and we could be "class"mates. Wouldn �t it be nice? Click here for Bell teacher´s courses.
xoxo,
Marcia
Edit: I took the COTE (now CELTA) from International House, but it was not the online version either. They´re very good too and they also have online courses. Check IH teacher´s courses here.
These are the ones I´ve taken and highly recommend.
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6 Sep 2009
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Judith@rwen
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Hi Kate,
Thank you for posting this message I �ve been asking myself the same question.
Thank you Marcia for the info, it sounds really interesting! I �d love to take one of these too. Has anyone from Argentina ever done any of these courses?
Have a wonderful Sunday!
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6 Sep 2009
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Lana.
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Hi Kate,
the only course I �ve heard of is the i-to-i Course, it �s quite popular among those native speakers who intend to teach abroad, this course is not recognised in Ireland as valid provider. That much I know. 
Thanks Bamarcia for the link, they sound interesting, the Delta in particular... |
6 Sep 2009
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crashid
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Hi Kate and Lana,
I suggest you to be very careful if you take the on line courses, I never want to be pessimist but you must be sure. I took the i-to-i course, I paid a lot of money and I wasn �t successful.
I haven �t got my Grammar certificate from them yet. Let me tell you that my personal tutor in i-to-i, was making things difficult for me, she was finding lots of mistakes in my submitted assignments so that I waste time, and I will have to pay a fee to keep studying.
The business is that you should finish the course within 6 months, but because I have a full time job and I am a mother, I was working slowly and my tutor was making things more difficult for me so that I take more than 6 months to finish the course.
I have an American friend (she is a professor at Indiana University), I requested her to help me finding out if i-to-i is has real accreditation and it �s worldwide recognized, she told me that it �s not recognized institution. I just warn you to be careful on which course you select. If you have a foreigner friend from US or England, request then to find out you if the course you select is recognized or not.
Ive heard that this institution http://www.ihlondon.com/ is recognized, because they take people from my country to study in England, of course each individual pay for their studies and staying in England during the course, but they have some online courses as well.
Good luck and Keep in touch if any help.
Ceci.
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7 Sep 2009
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