TESOL courses and qualifications

What can a level 6 Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers (Cert PT) qualification do for you?

Tom Garside

Aug 5, 2021
4 min

What can a level 6 Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers (Cert PT) qualification do for you?

If you have an initial qualification in TESOL and a couple of years of experience in the classroom, you may be wondering where to go next...

Are your TEFL qualifications recognised where you want to travel and teach?

Tom Garside

Jul 6, 2020
4 min

Are your TEFL qualifications recognised where you want to travel and teach?

Are your TEFL qualifications recognised where you want to travel and teach? When you start planning your career in English language teaching

The changing face of teacher training - 5 ways that TESOL qualifications are changing

Tom Garside

Jun 16, 2020
5 min

The changing face of teacher training - 5 ways that TESOL qualifications are changing

The emerging post-Covid world is bringing about changes in the global education industry, with TESOL and English language provision changing

TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if your TEFL course is really what it says it is

Tom Garside

May 18, 2020
5 min

TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if your TEFL course is really what it says it is

TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if your TEFL course is really what it says it is. If you are looking for an English teaching qualification, but

TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if a TEFL course is really what it says it is.

Tom Garside

May 11, 2020
4 min

TEFL hacks: 5 ways to check if a TEFL course is really what it says it is.

If you are looking for an English teaching qualification, but don’t know where to turn, you’re not alone. The TEFL industry is awash with

Getting into online teaching? 5 reasons to get qualified.

Tom Garside

Apr 27, 2020
5 min

Getting into online teaching? 5 reasons to get qualified.

If, like so many other teachers in the world, you are making the jump to online delivery during these challenging times, you will have had

Do online teachers need their own accredited teaching certificate?

Tom Garside

Apr 6, 2020
3 min

Do online teachers need their own accredited teaching certificate?

Online learning has been the fastest growing sector of the education industry for some time now, and recent events have pushed more and more

A new qualification for developing educators, wherever and however they teach

Tom Garside

Mar 31, 2020
4 min

A new qualification for developing educators, wherever and however they teach

If you have been following my recent articles and blogs, you will have read about the current focus on current thinking in TESOL teacher dev

Why are there no internationally accredited TEFL qualifications for non-native speaker teachers?

Tom Garside

Mar 25, 2020
2 min

Why are there no internationally accredited TEFL qualifications for non-native speaker teachers?

The global English language teaching industry has developed hugely in the past decade, with the quality of provision rising fast in a wide

Online and in-service teacher training: The future of ELT training

Tom Garside

Jul 29, 2019
6 min

Online and in-service teacher training: The future of ELT training

In order to facilitate improvements in teaching which continue to have an effect after a visiting trainer leaves the building, we need to ta

Helping teachers develop in their local contexts: A summary from IATEFL 2019

Tom Garside

Jun 17, 2019
5 min

Helping teachers develop in their local contexts: A summary from IATEFL 2019

The traditional form of teacher training and development activity, where an ‘expert in the field’ arrives at the school or training centre,

TESOL needs context! Considering local education settings in teacher training and development

Tom Garside

Jun 3, 2019
3 min

TESOL needs context! Considering local education settings in teacher training and development

Imagine you were retraining as a teacher of Mandarin to Speakers of Other Languages (MSOL), to meet the growing international demand for thi

After the TEFL Cert - what next? Teacher Education doesn’t stop with a first certificate

Tom Garside

May 20, 2019
3 min

After the TEFL Cert - what next? Teacher Education doesn’t stop with a first certificate

So you’ve finished your teacher training course, and are ready to go out into the world of teaching. Maybe you have a job lined up, maybe

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