150-hour TEFL certification online for $35.

Overview: Builds grammar confidence through the major word classes of English and focuses on how teachers can explain form, meaning, and use clearly.

• Identify the main parts of speech accurately.
• Explain grammar through contextual examples.
• Recognize common learner errors with form and word use.
• Design simple grammar practice activities.

Overview: Explores what teachers do before, during, and after lessons, including instruction, guidance, modeling, assessing, and professional classroom behavior.

• Describe the key roles a TEFL teacher performs.
• Build positive rapport while maintaining authority.
• Use clear instructions and appropriate teacher language.
• Reflect on how teacher behavior affects lesson outcomes.

Overview: Focuses on routines, classroom control, grouping, monitoring, instructions, and the practical habits that keep lessons organized and productive.

• Set up routines and expectations for smooth lessons.
• Use pair work, group work, and seating arrangements effectively.
• Respond to behavior issues calmly and appropriately.
• Monitor student work while maintaining class control.

Overview: Covers the present tense system and how to teach routines, current actions, ongoing states, examples, timelines, and controlled-to-freer practice.

• Differentiate the main present tense forms and uses.
• Teach present forms through context and timelines.
• Identify common learner errors.
• Create controlled and freer practice tasks.

Overview: Examines why learners engage, participate, and persist, with practical focus on confidence, goals, feedback, classroom climate, and motivation types.

• Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
• Identify factors that raise or lower learner engagement.
• Use praise and feedback to increase confidence.
• Respond effectively to signs of low interest or withdrawal.

Overview: Shifts attention from teacher explanation to learner participation, interaction, autonomy, and meaningful language use.

• Reduce unnecessary teacher talking time.
• Increase learner interaction and decision-making.
• Use scaffolding to support independent task completion.
• Design pair and group work with clear language goals.

Overview: Explains how English expresses future meaning through plans, predictions, arrangements, schedules, spontaneous decisions, and context-based form choice.

• Differentiate common future forms and meanings.
• Teach future choices through situations and timelines.
• Identify frequent learner errors.
• Create speaking and writing tasks using future forms.

Overview: Introduces major approaches to language teaching and encourages informed flexibility rather than rigid dependence on one method.

• Differentiate between approach, method, and technique.
• Compare traditional and communicative teaching models.
• Balance fluency and accuracy work.
• Use interactive and task-based techniques appropriately.

Overview: Teaches how to build organized, purposeful, realistic lessons using aims, outcomes, staging, timing, interaction, checking, and feedback.

• Write clear lesson aims and measurable outcomes.
• Sequence activities in a teachable order.
• Use planning frameworks such as PPP and ESA.
• Adapt planning choices based on learner response.

Overview: Reviews core concepts from the first half of the course, including grammar, methodology, lesson planning, motivation, and classroom practice.

• Demonstrate understanding of foundational TEFL concepts.
• Apply grammar knowledge from early units.
• Recognize effective lesson structure and planning choices.
• Identify practical motivation and engagement strategies.

Overview: Covers past tense forms and teaching approaches for sequence, duration, completion, interrupted actions, earlier past actions, and narrative meaning.

• Differentiate the main past tense forms and uses.
• Teach past meaning through timelines and contextual examples.
• Use storytelling tasks to practice past language.
• Create past tense lessons from controlled to freer use.

Overview: Develops advanced grammar teaching through conditionals and reported speech, focusing on meaning, tense shifting, and student-friendly explanations.

• Teach conditionals clearly and accessibly.
• Explain real, possible, and hypothetical meanings.
• Present reported speech in manageable stages.
• Use concept-checking questions to confirm understanding.

Overview: Focuses on teaching vocabulary for communication, retention, and active use, including meaning, pronunciation, spelling, collocation, and word grouping.

• Select useful vocabulary based on learner level and goals.
• Teach meaning through visuals, context, and guided discovery.
• Highlight collocations and lexical relationships.
• Move learners from recognition to active vocabulary use.

Overview: Looks at speaking and writing as productive skills requiring support, task design, correction strategies, confidence building, and purposeful feedback.

• Design speaking tasks with real reasons to communicate.
• Teach writing through planning, drafting, and revising.
• Use correction strategies for speaking and writing.
• Assess productive work with useful criteria.

Overview: Treats pronunciation as a communication tool, covering individual sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, intonation, and connected speech.

• Teach pronunciation with intelligibility as the main goal.
• Model stress and intonation clearly.
• Use drilling and pronunciation activities purposefully.
• Integrate pronunciation into speaking and listening lessons.

Overview: Introduces reading and listening as active skills that require prediction, strategy use, comprehension support, and staged lesson design.

• Use pre-, while-, and post-stage lesson structure.
• Teach skimming, scanning, and predicting.
• Sequence tasks from gist to detail.
• Extend receptive work into speaking or writing follow-up.

Overview: Goes deeper into listening and reading sub-skills, text selection, learner processing, comprehension breakdowns, and scaffolded task design.

• Teach listening and reading for gist, detail, and inference.
• Select materials suited to level and lesson aims.
• Support comprehension of speed and connected speech.
• Diagnose common causes of receptive-skill difficulty.

Overview: Covers classroom and online tools including boards, visuals, handouts, realia, devices, and digital resources, with focus on purposeful use.

• Select equipment based on lesson aims and learner needs.
• Use boards, visuals, and handouts effectively.
• Integrate realia and props into communicative tasks.
• Adapt resources for low-tech and high-tech environments.

Overview: Explains how to assess learners fairly and meaningfully using informal and formal assessment, test types, rubrics, and feedback cycles.

• Differentiate formative and summative assessment.
• Use placement, progress, and achievement measures appropriately.
• Create tasks for reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
• Use assessment results to adjust future teaching.

Overview: Examines game-based learning and gamification as tools for participation, motivation, challenge, movement, collaboration, and language practice.

• Explain the difference between gamification and game-based learning.
• Design language games that remain purposeful.
• Use rewards and challenge without unhealthy pressure.
• Maintain control during high-energy tasks.

Overview: Introduces special learner groups including young learners, exam-preparation students, and adults with specific interests such as business English.

• Set up and manage an effective young learner classroom.
• Use engaging techniques such as TPR.
• Conduct needs analysis for different learner types.
• Understand common assessments such as IELTS.

Overview: Prepares teachers for online teaching through platform use, pacing, interaction, digital classroom management, and backup planning.

• Set up and manage an effective online teaching space.
• Use chat, breakout rooms, and screen sharing confidently.
• Adapt task flow and instructions for online delivery.
• Monitor understanding and participation remotely.

Overview: Takes learners through the world of ESL teaching abroad and online, including job searching, demos, applications, recruiters, and professional expectations.

• Identify common TEFL job types and destinations.
• Understand where to search for online and overseas roles.
• Prepare for demos, profiles, and applications.
• Approach job adverts with realistic expectations.

Overview: The final assessment checks understanding across the core TEFL course and the added 150-hour extension topics, including young learner teaching, adult needs, methodology, systems, classroom practice, and lesson planning.

• Demonstrate understanding of core TEFL concepts.
• Apply teaching principles to young learner and adult learner scenarios.
• Recognize effective approaches to planning, management, motivation, and skills teaching.
• Consolidate knowledge needed for beginning online or overseas English teaching pathways.