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Q: Know any good TESOL online programs?

A buddy of mine is changing from a kindergarten to a university next month.  Everything is in order, except the university is requiring him to get a TESOL.  It's fine, he doesn't have an issue with it, but time is a factor.  Can anyone recommend a quick, and easy online TESOL certification program?  On a side note, the university told him since the new rules and regulations regarding our work visas came into affect, we must acquire a TESOL.  Does this mean, for those of us already working at a university, when we resign our contracts we must have one?

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Like any of these new "laws"  it will be different,city to city province to province or even school to school.  I would imagine you best bet would be to  talk to your school a few months before your end of contract to give you some time to prepare.  As you are already on a Z visa i presume then renewing it shouldnt be an issue with or without the TESOL.   But it might effect new employees or yourself if you change schools.

Paulberger:

yea, after i posted this i called my foreign director.  he said it wouldn't affect me since i'd be resuming the contract.  only new candidates.  but in all honesty, i think this is a good thing.  it can help improve the quality of foreign teachers here.  and for all you out there offended by my comment.. it's true... a lot of the foreign teachers here do not take their job seriously.

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the converse is also true: teachers who seriously want to teach but end up as 'dancing monkey's'

 

Even with a CELTA, i find i am still at the 'entertainment' end of the spectrum, although i have worked tirelessly here to prove i am more than that.

 

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Paulberger:

@sorrel  very true.  i've seen so many sad stories of foreigners in my city that came here to do legit work, but ended up going home because their school wanted a clown, not a teacher.

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mike695ca:

agreed. Job training shouldnt be considered a negative thing.   My only thing , is I got mine years and years ago.  I have a scanned copy of it but not the original.  Would the copy be ok?  I did it with Oxford ( im pretty sure it has nothing to do with the real oxford, as it was a seminar at UBC in vancouver... but.. )  would they have me on file and give me another? Would I have to take it again??  I dont need it now.... but in the future you never know, and others definatly will.

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Hi Paul. I got my Tesol online and finished the certification in 4 days. It was a 160 Hour course, but I found most of the info to be common sense, and the rest I knew from earning my degree. I would come home from work and spend 4 hours completing course work and also had some free time while I work to do a little here. Knocked it out in 4 days and my certificate was emailed to me the next day. It really didn't teach me anything about teaching ESL that I didn't already know, and it had some annoying biblical undertones thrown in here and there (the college is Christian based I believe). I paid $69 for it through a Groupon. The website is www.tesols.com

mike695ca:

This is going to sound sarcastic but I swear it isnt. I have never done an online course  but.....  How do you finish a 160 hour course in 4 days??? am i missing something??

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WanderingTeacher:

Certification course hours is an approximation of how many hows of coursework you will be completing to receive your certification. 160 hour course has 10 modules that are generally completed over a course of 10 weeks (1 Module per week). 160 hours is the approximate hours you will spend in class learning the subject matter, being quizzed/tested on the subject matter, applying the matter, as well as the hours you will spend outside of class completing homework and projects.

 

When you are doing it online, you are not restricted by having to wait till the next week to be taught and complete the next module. You can start the next one as soon as you pass the first one. So I read through the information being taught, was tested, passed, and completed the module. Then moved onto the next one. I was finishing 2.5-3 modules a day, which is how I completed a 160 hour course, in 4 days.

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Shenzhen requires it for new guys coming to work here, but they dont accept online TEFL or TESOL anymore, a new teacher that moved here from Hebei had this issue.. different city, different rules.

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