TEFL Prague and Abroad

Want to teach abroad but are hesitant to make the jump? We interviewed close to a dozen graduates of The Language House TEFL and candidly asked them about their experience on the course and what life is like living and teaching in Prague. All of the interviews were completely unscripted. I'll be posting these videos each week under the label 'graduate voices'. Check them out! There's a lot to learn from the experience of current teachers in the city. Cheers, Chris The Language House TEFL

    How to Prepare for your TEFL Course Internet forums are always abuzz with future TEFL students asking what they can do to prepare for their course. Here are some of my tips on what you can do to make sure you have an edge over your classmates and help make the transition into teaching and living abroad  easier. I. Things to Improve your Teaching  Pre-Course  1. Learn your own Language  - You need come into your course with some kind of grammatical base. It will make everything easier. Know the tenses, perfect tenses, continuous vs simple forms, structures and functions...etc. Know at least the basic kinds of verbs and parts of speech. The more the better if you ask me. There is a plethora of websites and books out there dealing with grammar. Start learning it. If you don't know where to start, ask your TEFL provider for some assistance. If they can't give you a sheet or anything to help you learn the grammar, you've picked the wrong program. At...

           A past graduate of The Language House TEFL taken in Spain   I get asked these questions all of the time, and it's pretty important to go over everything here. While I am clearly biased because I run The Language House TEFL in Prague, I'm going to keep this post as honest and as un-ad-like as a I can. The thing that I always tell people first is to NOT worry too much! I've met and talked to dozens of people that got so caught up in the course selection process that they never actually took a course at all and never taught abroad. Most courses do what they are supposed to do. If they are not doing that, they will be rated poorly on the internet. Whatever you do, do take the plunge (as long as you pass the crazy test see my previous post) and teach abroad.  If you really want my opinion on TEFL courses and what to take, I've listed everything for you below. 1. Should I even Take a TEFL Course? For the most part, yes you sh...

  First Things First... An exciting world awaits if you have what it takes to make the first step TEFL is not for everyone. Likewise, the military is not for everyone or at 32 and 5ft 9, a career as a pro basketball player is simply not going to happen for me. You need to decide if you and TEFL are compatible or you are going to waste time, money and tons of emotional energy.  Below is a list  to consider and are just opinions coming from a lot of experience. Individual cases of course will vary.  Most importantly    1. Are you crazy?  (And I don't mean a little bit:)  You don't have to answer that out loud; you can answer it privately, but for your own good, you're going to have to answer it. If you are crazy, you should probably know this by now. If you suffer from severe emotional or psychological problems, going abroad is not going to change anything. It will actually likely make things worse. All joking aside, if you are a...

    A bit of background  I've always liked the idea of living abroad, but if you had told me when I was in college that I would end up being a director of a teacher training program in Prague, I would have told you, you were crazy. It's funny how life works out. I started teaching in my early 20's in Austria on a teaching internship for a study abroad program. It was on a whim to be honest, but I really took to it, and it seemed like something I was natural at. During that year abroad, I visited Prague and fell in love with the city completely. I didn't really know what to do when I graduated university, but I knew that I wanted to get back to Prague. That's when I discovered TEFL and the reality that you could actually live and teach abroad all over the world without too much difficulty. I had known people who were teaching abroad, but I figured you needed a lot of schooling or experience to do so. When I learned that it was relatively easy to do, I knew that...