One of the things I like most about ITA is the ITA staff and how quickly they help students. What’s most impressive to me, I can still e-mail them with a question or request for support, and they continue to provide timely assistance even though it’s been almost a year since I graduated. I can’t tell how much I appreciate this.

Lastly, every text book is a gold mine of information. I always use these as references to help me teach my on-line classes.

Thanks ITA!

V/r, John

Long version: I’m planning on teaching in S. Korea. When researching what I would need, it became evident that I would need a TEFL certification to actually get into any school (if there’s a school that lets you in without a TEFL cert., you’re going to have a bad time). I came across a bunch of courses for $50 – $500. ITA was $1200 for the course I took (200 hour course – 180 online, 20 practicum). Big cost difference. I was wondering why it would cost so much. I did copious amounts of research and found a bunch of corroborating evidence that pointed to ITA being worth the price. I bit the bullet, bought the course, started classes 2 weeks later, immediately started contacting the job placement people, was helped with my resume and cover letter (I’ve been complimented on it by recruiting agencies several times now), and started reading all of the course content. I have absolutely loved my experience and found significantly more value in it than $1200.

I have only just finished my course and I already have a job in Korea.

Content – 10/10

Content is insanely more helpful, applicable, relevant, and interesting than I expected.

Assignments – 9.5/10

Everything was there that I wanted. There was also things that I didn’t know I wanted. I was surprised at how thorough the class was and how applicable the assignments were. Much of it was oriented around building lesson plans and how to use them. Also, how to build, plan, and integrate activity plans within lesson plans and class rooms of different cultural settings and with students at varying levels of English skills.

Instructor – 10/10

Fair, communicative, knowledgeable, good feedback, and quick. Everything I could ask for.

Recommendation for if you take the class:

Read the Guidance Manual. Even after I researched for 3 weeks straight, I never found anything even close to rivaling the value of this book in regard to teaching abroad. Literally everything for every country, as well as the legal hoops to jump through, recommended agencies, and what to watch out for.

Best book on the subject. Period.

I love the content. it´s well organized and structured. I am meticulous with orthography (even in my language) and writing, and I didn´t see any details in this content, what I think it´s very valuable. If you are going to teach, you first need to access to clean contents, and these were.

My instructor was a ighly prepared person, she knows a lot! and is very available as well. You need to meet them! I am almost sure all of them have good reasons to be teaching here!

The only thing I feel needs improvement is the practicum information and connections. I would like to get the best of that experience, but I don´t think is easy to find the best place to do it, make the right connections, particularly when we come from every place of the world.

thanks!

When I first knew of the academy, I was very hesitant and didn’t understand much what it can offer me. After attending their webcast and speaking with Lindsay, my advisor, I was convinced that it was the program I was looking for to jumpstart my lifelong dream of teaching a language.

The course was complete with text and video content and provided additional resources and references. Our teacher, Quinn, was very helpful and gave us insights and full feedback on every chapter task. She also shared her experiences in teaching which helped me paint a better picture of the new career path I’ve taken. I just wished my current work schedule and time zone were not in conflict with the chat and live webinar schedules so that I could have joined them. Still, it was nice that I can just send an e-mail to my teacher for questions and comments and that the webinars were recorded.

Aside from the course itself, that is very helpful in preparing you with your new life as a teacher, there were many realizations that this course has taught me. A lot of the concepts were not only applicable in the classroom but also outside it and made me realize that all these things boil down to respect and with it one’s capability to reach out and understand other individuals. This course also made me celebrate little victories like when I pass a quiz or get a good mark in my tasks. I was very hard on myself but this course made me feel that I am capable of doing things!

So, if you’re thinking of taking this course, stop thinking and just get it. You will not regret it, I promise!