The TEFL Academy Blog

Once you have completed your TEFL course you will (should!) feel like you are ready to tackle anything the TEFL classroom can throw at you. Teaching the second conditional? No…

Some teachers enjoy teaching Young Learners, some like teaching adults, but there are not many out there who would readily admit to being keen on teaching teenage learners. And for…

Most EFL teachers have a complicated relationship with course books. If we have them, we complain about them and don’t want to use them, but if we don’t have them…

The key to a happy and successful classroom is undoubtedly your students. If your students are motivated, engaged and satisfied at the end of the day then you can be…

For the most part, TEFL teachers are well-prepared creatures. We put time and effort into needs analyses, sourcing resourcing and lesson planning in order to ensure that we carry out…

I know, I know. How long is a piece of string, right? However, recent research is now able to provide us with a few answers to this question, which is…

With a TEFL certificate, the world is truly your oyster. So where on earth should you go? With the title of the third largest English speaking country in the world,…

For our students who come to a foreign country to learn English, culture shock can be a real problem. Culture shock can affect a person emotionally and even physically. For…

There aren’t many things worse than facing a classroom full of students who clearly would rather not be there. Students playing on their phones under the table, doodling in their…