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TEFL Online Pro Reviews — From Verified Students and Graduates
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Recent research by the Federal Trade Commission has found that up to 30% of all online reviews are fake, and most consumers are unable to tell the difference.
Fake reviews are a problem across all industries, and the online TEFL sector is no exception.
In the online TEFL industry, fake reviews typically appear in two forms: positive reviews written by a program about itself, or negative reviews of competing programs authored by rival TEFL providers.
Fake TEFL Online Pro reviews on Reddit.
How to Identify Fake Reviews
The clearest sign of fake reviews is when a TEFL program suddenly racks up a large number of reviews—whether glowing or critical. Some programs have even gained a reputation for this tactic.
If a program is pushing certain review websites, take a closer look. Check the dates of the reviews—if more than two appear on the same day, there’s a good chance that some, or even all, were written by the program itself.
Another way to spot a fake review is by looking closely at the language used.
If someone posts a review and then follows up with a string of other posts or reviews, there’s a good chance the original review isn’t genuine. In the online TEFL world, Reddit is often misused in this way. Affiliate marketers—paid to promote programs—also contribute to this trend by writing blog posts and leaving comments online.
Why Some TEFL Programs Rely on Fake Reviews
The most common reason some TEFL programs rely on fake reviews is simple: to attract more students. They count on people believing the reviews and signing up for their courses.
It’s also common for programs to post negative reviews about their competitors, claiming things like “the certificate was useless” or “this TEFL program is a scam.”
Some programs even go further. For example, one has paid affiliate marketers to take competing courses so they can trash them online—and then “prove” their claims by pretending to be real graduates.
We experienced this firsthand last year when TTA The TEFL Academy paid an affiliate marketer to take our flagship 120-hour Professional TEFL/TESOL Certification Course. Within just one hour of receiving her certificate, she claimed she had already applied to schools but been rejected. Of course, it was completely false. Over the past year, she’s continued to post these complaints online—a level of behavior you wouldn’t expect from a genuine graduate.
Why People Fall for Fake Reviews
People fall for fake reviews because they are carefully crafted to seem authentic. In the case of fake negative reviews, this is amplified by a psychological phenomenon called negativity bias.
Negativity bias is a psychological phenomenon where people give more weight to negative information than to positive or neutral information. In the context of reviews, it explains why:
A single bad review can outweigh several good reviews.
People are more likely to remember negative experiences or warnings.
Consumers may assume negative reviews are more “honest” or trustworthy.
Being able to spot fake reviews is crucial, because the program behind them could be a scam—signing you up and leaving you with very little in return.
Examples of Fake TEFL Online Pro Reviews
The first image in this article shows a few Reddit posts that were started by individuals working for a business competitor.
One of the threads was initiated by the fake graduate we mentioned earlier. Another thread was also started by a competitor, this time using SEO-friendly keywords like “Is TEFL Online Pro Legit?”
After the initial posts, there is a sudden rush of comments from accounts associated with the TEFL competitor and other online TEFL programs.
Some niche Reddit communities are known to be biased, as this allows moderators to justify the significant amount of time they spend managing the subreddit. In some cases, they receive kickbacks from certain online TEFL programs in exchange for clandestine promotions and the ability to publicly discredit their competitors.
Here’s another fake TEFL Online Pro review that targets other programs as well:
ESLinsider TEFL misinformation.
At first glance, you might think ESLinsider is a trustworthy TEFL whistleblower site—and it’s easy to see why, since it’s carefully designed to look legitimate.
But with over 20 years of experience in the TEFL industry, we can confirm that ESLinsider was really set up to funnel people into taking just one online TEFL course: the one offered by ESLinsider itself.
The site is run by Ian Patrick Leahy—a man who has been banned from Facebook since 2017 for spreading misinformation.
He’s also been known to advise his graduates to buy fake degrees—a practice that landed several young Western teachers in a Chinese prison before they were unceremoniously deported.
Would you want that to happen to you? Of course not.
Affiliate Marketers
Affiliate marketers are a big problem in the online TEFL industry.
You might stumble across a blog post claiming that the author was earning $100 an hour teaching English online through [fill in the blank] TEFL program, and feel tempted to sign up. But by the time you realize it, it’s too late—you can’t realistically earn that much online, and the author never even took the course.
In reality, they were paid to write the post and earned a commission whenever someone purchased the course.
And this isn’t just an online TEFL problem—it happens in all sorts of industries.
Here’s one example:
Affiliate marketing example.
Take a look at the “60% Sale” mention. Now, think about it—why would a real graduate spend so much time promoting a TEFL program’s course sale and actively show up in Google searches for that program (The TEFL Academy)?
Could it be that they’re being paid to promote the courses? Or are they just a super generous person who genuinely wants to tell the world—spending countless hours in the process—about a TEFL program they took?
We know you’re smart enough to figure out the real reason.
Interestingly, this affiliate marketer spread misinformation about TEFL Online Pro a few years ago.
She started a thread on Reddit, wrote a blog post, and followed it up with fake comments—exactly the same approach used by the fake TEFL Online Pro graduate we mentioned earlier. That graduate, who was paid to take our 120-hour course last year, also started a Reddit thread, created a blog post, and filled it with fake comments.
Why TEFL Online Pro Takes This Seriously
We take this seriously because we’ve spent years building a strong reputation—only to have a few competitors try to convince people not to take our courses and push their own instead.
That’s why we openly call out competitors who engage in this kind of negative marketing.
Wouldn’t you do the same?
If you want to see authentic TEFL Online Pro reviews, we recommend checking platforms where real students share their experiences:
The main reason we created https://tefl-online-pro-reviews.com/ was simple: to set the record straight and address any misleading claims made by competitors online.
Conclusion
We want to wrap up by making one thing clear: not all online TEFL programs engage in negative marketing or attacks on competitors.
That said, we really don’t understand why the likes of TTA The TEFL Academy do this—it must take a lot of planning to pull off these kinds of campaigns.
If no one calls them out, they’ll likely feel emboldened, as if they have free rein to continue.
Ironically, TTA The TEFL Academy has only been under its current owners since around 2021. Before that, it was a very reputable company with no fake awards or reviews, and we never had any issues with the former owners.
Meanwhile, ESLinsider has long relied on a business model of spreading misinformation, using it to mislead people into taking his course.
There are plenty of online TEFL programs out there, and this post isn’t meant to be a hard sell for TEFL Online Pro.
Instead, it’s a sincere attempt to raise awareness about fake reviews and help you protect yourself from misinformation.
We are very busy and today we have been updating some of the out-of-date information, but we simply don’t have the time to go through every blog post and correct all dates and years – we write now specifically about the years when we have won the Teachers’ Choice Award.
For clarification, TEFL Online Pro has won the prestigious Teachers’ Choice Award for an unprecedented seven years in a row: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Therefore, please accept our apologies for any blog posts on this website that show an out-of-date Teachers’ Choice Award year win.
2. Malicious smear-campaign attacks
We are still being targeted by a few business competitors and our strategy has always been to highlight the attacks and provide proof and our reasons why the attacks are maliciously motivated and without any merit.
This provides you, the customer, with the possibility to view our response and to make up your minds for yourselves.
You are not stupid people – the vast majority of our customers see through the ruse of any business competitor attacks.
The second reason for publishing this blog post is to highlight for you the latest attacks.
We have published an article on our school website:
We strongly recommending reading the article because it contains business email screenshots of one of our business competitors where he openly threatens our company with illegal activity.
But, don’t worry – we have an excellent company lawyer and the civil and criminal cases that we have sought are now proceeding through the courts.
We are so busy because the number of folks choosing our company for their Fully Accredited Online TEFL/TESOL certification course training has skyrocketed.
We firmly believe that the reasons for the business competitor attacks is primarily because of our popularity.
The TEFL & TESOL certification course industry is highly competitive.
The competitiveness between TEFL programs has several implications. On one hand, it can drive innovation and encourage institutions to improve the quality of their programs. On the other hand, it can lead to the proliferation of subpar programs that do not adequately prepare graduates for the challenges of teaching English online or abroad.
A further implication of operating within a highly competitive business field is that some companies will try to sabotage their business competitors.
Since winning the Teachers’ Choice Award in 2019, and subsequently winning the same prestigious award in 2020, 2021, and 2022, TEFL Online Pro has been on the receiving end of online attacks by a few of our business competitors.
Which programs have carried out the attacks?
It began with Ian Patrick Leahy, the owner of the TEFL program ESLinsider.
The ESLinsider (unaccredited) TEFL program is run exclusively by Ian Patrick Leahy. ESLinsider has been banned from Facebook (since 2017) for spamming and publishing misinformation, and it has had a number of its videos deleted by YouTube for the same reasons.
ESLinsider is notorious in the TEFL world for writing fictitious, malicious content about its business competitors – on anonymous complaint websites, discussion forums, Reddit, on the blogs it runs, etc.
Pick any TEFL accreditation body, TEFL program, or TEFL reviews website – ESLinsider will have written some trash about it.
MyTEFL, ITTT TEFL, and The TEFL Academy (TTA) apparently sensed blood in the water and joined in on the attacks- essentially regurgitating the nonsense that Ian passes as gospel.
TEFL Online Pro has issued a refutation to the false allegations made by these business competitors, on the teflonlinepro.com official school website:
TEFL Online Pro (https://teflonlinepro.com/) established this tefl-online-pro-reviews.com blog so as to have a platform where we would be able to respond to attacks made by online competitors.
TEFL Online Pro is a legitimate company, providing award-winning and Fully Accredited Online TEFL/TESOL international certification courses training.
We receive consistently positive (verified) customer feedback, and this is in part because of our commitment to maintaining a high level of customer services.
Our course graduates teach English online and teach English overseas, in every country worldwide where English is taught as a second or foreign language, and typically start their teaching jobs within four weeks of course completion.
As of August 18th 2022, 100% of our graduates that have taken one of our courses and that have then wanted to teach (online or overseas) have been successful in their job-search objectives.
All three of the international certification courses provided by our company come with lifetime job support services, included in the price of the course.
In addition to all of the above, TEFL Online Pro is a verified business member with Paypal and has been since 2019.
TEFL Online Pro has many competitors within the Online TEFL/TESOL training marketplace.
The majority of our competitors are similarly held accountable through their accreditation affiliations, but a few of our competitors are not bound by the Codes Of Practice associated with Fully Accredited status – i.e., some of our business competitors offer unaccredited TEFL courses and can operate without any oversight from an external moderation board.
This article has been written as an official rebuttal to the defamatory, malicious, and untrue statements published online about TEFL Online Pro – statements published by four of our business competitors: ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy (TTA).
We can confirm for readers of this article that none of those TEFL programs are Fully Accredited, and are, therefore, unaccountable to an external accreditation body – meaning that they can act with impunity with regards to how they treat their customers and how they treat their business competition.
TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited by ACTEFLC – Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses.
This article looks at the Google Search results for ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ and identifies the real TEFL Online Pro reviews versus the online attacks carried out by our competitors.
Anyone who wants to cause damage to a business can easily do so simply by going online and harming them in one of many different ways. Online attacks on businesses and their professionals may originate from a number of parties, including business competitors.
We would also like to point out at this stage in the article that TEFL Online Pro is in no way a unique case when it comes to the online attacks instigated by the above mentioned TEFL programs.
All four competitors routinely attack their business competitors online.
At TEFL Online Pro we place significant importance on transparency – we have nothing to hide – and we will now look at the (USA) Google Search results for ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’.
‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ Google Search results.
Currently, as of 20th July 2021, these are the ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ USA first-page Google Search results:
We believe that this Reddit thread was started by a Reddit user, genuinely wanting more information about the TEFL Online Pro Online TEFL/TESOL certification program. However, it was immediately hijacked by shills – represented by our business competition. This is a common issue on Reddit and other discussion forums.This is an authentic ‘TEFL Online Pro reviews’ Google Search result. The link leads to our company Facebook page, where our graduates have left verified testimonials of their course experiences.This link directs the reader to the Reviews page on the teflonlinepro.com school website. On this page, readers can read verified customer reviews.This Google Search result redirects readers to the our YouTube channel, where readers can watch verified video testimonials – all submitted by recent TEFL Online Pro course graduates.Common online platforms for executing competitor attacks, such as defamation, include gripe websites such as Ripoff Report and Complaints Board. These websites require users to register accounts, yet neither of them prevents users from using aliases and posting false or misleading information under them. This ‘TEFL Online Pro: A potential fraudulent company…’ Complaints Board complaint was created by The TEFL Academy (TTA). ESLinsider, ITTT TEFL, and MyTEFL then proceeded to add their own additional comments, under different aliases- employing a click farm to upvote negative comments and downvote positive comments.This Trusted TEFL Reviews ‘Is TEFL Online Pro Legit?’ listing was created by one of our recent graduates – who left a review of their Online TEFL/TESOL certification course experience.We established tefl-online-pro-reviews.com so as to be able to defend ourselves against online attacks made against us by our business competitors.Yet another online attack by Ian Patrick Leahy, from ESLinsider – one of our business competitors. In this post, Ian publishes misleading content that attempts to link our company with the creation of Trusted TEFL Reviews.The domain was registered by MyTEFL. MyTEFL created this attack website and still to this day pays for web hosting for this website.
Analysis of the above nine search results.
Out of the nine search results listed above, only five are authentic TEFL Online Pro listings.
A review published on the independent Online TEFL/TESOL certification course reviews website – Trusted TEFL Reviews. In this review, one of our customers has answered the question as to whether TEFL Online Pro is Legit:
tefl-online-pro-reviews.com is a website that we created in order to have a space online where we could defend ourselves against such baseless online competitor attacks:
The remaining four Google Search results have been created and marketed by our business competitors.
We are now going to strip down to the bone the search results for ESLinsider because he (Ian Patrick Leahy) was the individual that began the misinformation campaign in the hope of piggybacking off our success.
ESLinsider / Ian Patrick Leahy
We have written extensively about Ian Patrick Leahy already on this website:
Therefore, we don’t wish to repeat what we have already stated with regards to Ian Patrick Leahy, his documented crimes, his documented defamation, his unaccredited TEFL/TEKA certification course, and how Ian Leahy has pretty much written trash online about all of his business competitors.
Trusted TEFL Reviews has also exposed this individual for what he really represents:
What we are going to do, though, is simply show you the individual behind ESLinsider:
ESLinsider’s About page. Ian Patrick Leahy took an arts degree at the University of Arizona. Later on, he took a TEFL course. He then decided that he would begin his own TEFL program – something he really had no business doing at all – and since then, he has moved to various different locations and has been accused of providing a subpar TEFL program. He has also been accused of defrauding his TEFL students of money, via credit card fraud.Ian Patrick Leahy (ESLinsider) runs a YouTube channel, where he gives out poor advice. This screenshot was taken from one of his more recent videos, where he recklessly recommends to people that they should avoid going to college. Ian has also published YouTube videos where he has spread his toxic defamation of TEFL Online Pro and other Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs. His YouTube TEFL Online Pro youTube videos are unavailable for viewing in the UK because YouTube banned them at our request. They were banned because they are defamatory – containing malicious, untrue statements.Ian Leahy – Online English Tutor on Cambly. Ian’s history of defrauding his customers has recently caught up with him and his ESLinsider business is now blacklisted. As a result, Ian has moved back to his hometown of Monroe, New Hampshire, and is currently tutoring English online. Ian Patrick Leahy’s ESLinsider is also banned from Facebook – hence the reason why ESLinsider has no Facebook page.
Ian Patrick Leahy represents everything wrong with the Online TEFL/TESOL industry.
ESLinsider is a one man show, unaccredited, operated by an individual with far too much free time on his hands, who spams the internet with misleading information about his business competition in the hopes that he can convince some people to instead take his TEFL/TEKA course.
A few years ago, Ian was giving out the poor advice that people could teach English in China without the need for having a college degree. Ian actually recommended that instead, people could just buy a fake degree online and use that. As a result, some people took his TEFL/TEKA course, and his advice about using a fake college degree, and were promptly arrested and then deported by the Chinese authorities.
As a result, the ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA certificate is worthless in the largest ESL teacher’s market in the world.
We are 100% certain that Ian Leahy will continue to market his ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA course to unsuspecting newbies, and that he will continue to publish defamatory material online about his business competition.
Legal action against Ian Patrick Leahy of ESLinsider
We began by issuing a Cease and Desist formal notice to Ian (via our company email address) and a copy of this was published as a private message to Ian, on his YouTube channel. When Ian responded as though he could write whatever he wanted to, without accountability, we contacted YouTube and requested that the video be blocked in Japan – Ian’s current home country at the time, before he moved back home to Monroe, New Hampshire.
Cease and Desist formal notice, delivered to Ian Patrick Leahy – ESLinsider.YouTube also have a zero tolerance policy regarding Ian Leahy’s online defamation.
It is very difficult to proceed with legal action against Ian Patrick Leahy because he resides in Monroe, New Hampshire. New Hampshire has the most liberal free-speech laws in the United States – meaning that Ian has a carte blanche to write and publish absolutely anything online that he feels the urge to.
Another obstacle to this process is that ESLinsider is not a registered company. ESLinsider is just a website that Ian Patrick Leahy established.
We are, however, in talks with other Online TEFL/TESOL course providers that have also fallen victim to Ian’s online defamatory attacks and we are all currently pooling our resources together in order to follow a litigation path, whereby we can try to prevent Ian Patrick Leahy from continuing with his Online TEFL/TEKA course scam.
Our research has also shown that Ian Patrick Leahy has likely not paid any taxes to the IRS on any of the revenue earned from his ESLinsider TEFL/TEKA business activities.
ESLinsider April 2nd 2023 update:
Ian has moved back from Japan to the United States because, as he put it, his website “wasn’t doing very good”. He continues the ESLinsider blog and ESLinsider TEFL program, but spends his winters working on ski slopes and appears to be spending a chunk of his spare time continuously repairing an old postal van that he drives across the country in now.
As for ITTT TEFL, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy, we would advise them to focus on developing their business and focussing on providing better customer service; as well as obtaining proper, legitimate accreditation.
Anyone who has run a business understands how frustrating it can be when rogue competitors try to run your business down.
Thankfully, we run one of the top-rated Online TEFL & TESOL certification course programs and we have the support of our customers and graduates.
You can read and view verified TEFL Online Pro customers’ reviews on our company Facebook page, on the independent Trusted TEFL Reviews, and on our company’s YouTube channel:
TEFL Online Pro offers a wide range of TEFL/TESOL certification courses to suit different needs and preferences.
All three award-winning, Fully Accredited, and internationally recognized Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses qualify you to teach English online or abroad:
The 60-Hour Fast-Track International Online TEFL/TESOL Certification Course is the perfect solution for people with TEFL experience. This course is fully accredited and internationally recognized. To qualify for this course, you either need to be teaching English now or have taught English in the past:
The 120-Hour Professional International Online TEFL/TESOL Certification Course is the perfect solution for people with little or no TEFL experience. This course is fully accredited and internationally recognized – the certification awarded the same level of qualification as the CELTA, Level 5, and Trinity CertTESOL qualification. No past TEFL experience is necessary – anyone wanting to teach English online or abroad can qualify for this course:
The 140-Hour Hybrid International Online/Onsite TEFL/TESOL Certification Course is the perfect solution for people with little or no TEFL experience who are wanting in-class teaching practice. This course is fully accredited and internationally recognized – the certification awarded is the same level of qualification as the CELTA, Level 5, and Trinity CertTESOL qualification. No past TEFL experience is necessary – anyone wanting to teach English online or abroad can qualify for this course:
All three certification courses come with 24-Hour Online Tutor support, and with lifetime international job support services- both of which are provided without charge.
With a TEFL Online Pro TEFL/TESOL certificate, you can teach English online or abroad.
Customer TESOL Certification Course Video Testimonials are a great resource for people wanting more information on the reputation of a TEFL certification program.
What better way to find out whether an Online TEFL & TESOL certification course is legitimate than to hear the spoken words of recent graduates!
We are so blessed that the vast majority of our customers are simply wonderful.
Why are our customers so wonderful?
One of the reasons is because at TEFL Online Pro we deliver on all of our promises and our customers really appreciate this commitment to our professional word.
Bearing this in mind, please find below our current (eleven) customers’ TEFL/TESOL certification course video testimonials of their TEFL Online Pro experiences:
Teaching English in S.Korea – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46PDonA6QA | In this TEFL Online Pro teaching English follow-up review, Noor outlines how her TEFL & TESOL certification from https://teflonlinepro.com was an essential document for teaching online & in S.Korea.
Teaching English in Europe – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrtgTQ5Rdkg | In this TEFL Online Pro review, Troy notes why he chose TEFL Online Pro and outlines his teaching English abroad plans for Europe and Asia with his https://teflonlinepro.com TEFL & TESOL certification.
120-Hour Online TEFL & TESOL – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZclYMgznmE | In this TEFL Online Pro review, Astrid describes her 120-Hour Professional course experience, her future teaching English abroad plans, and why she recommends the TEFL & TESOL certification from https://teflonlinepro.com
Teaching English Online
Teaching English Online – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4unbJrFRCnY | In this TEFL Online Pro review, Noor describes her 140-Hour Hybrid course experience, her current job as an online English teacher, and why she recommends the TEFL & TESOL certification from https://teflonlinepro.com
Teaching English in Austria – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4jC0ErDmo | In this TEFL Online Pro review, Annelise is starting as an English Teaching Assistant with Fulbright Austria. This was made possible because of her TEFL & TESOL certification from https://teflonlinepro.com
A recent TEFL Online Pro customer’s Facebook review from February, 2023.
TEFL Online Pro reviews | 2023 | video testimonials.
If you have taken a TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course, you probably read some of our verified school reviews: on the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, or on Trusted TEFL Reviews – the independent Online TEFL/TESOL courses reviews website:
You might also have read some of the featured TEFL Online Pro student testimonials on the the Reviews page on the teflonlinepro.com official school website:
Furthermore, you might have had the free time to take a read through some of the TEFL articles that have been added to this this TEFL Online Pro reviews blog:
And, you might have discovered how so unprofessional some of our business competition behave when it comes to black-hat SEO tactics used in the hope of winning new customers.
This is, unfortunately, the price of conducting business in a highly competitive and largely unregulated marketplace as the TEFL & TESOL industry is.
We constantly aim to find new ways of providing the best services for our customers, and we also strive to present all information regarding TEFL Online Pro in a clear, easy-to-digest format. This also applies to TEFL Online Pro reviews, so that our future customers can clearly, and transparently, read genuine feedback from customers who have gone through the process of course enrolment to course graduation.
With this in mind, we have decided to begin a TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel:
So far, we have eleven TEFL Online Pro customer’s videos uploaded.
Three of these videos were recorded by customers who initially recorded a post-course video testimonial, and who have now recorded a video about how their TEFL Online Pro certificate has been an essential document in opening online and abroad teaching job doors.
TEFL Online Pro video testimonials, recorded by our customers:
12 reasons why you should choose TEFL Online Pro for your international TEFL/TESOL certification course training.
1. Excellent student feedback.
We always place the customer first and our customers appreciate this high level of personal service. This can be seen by our consistently positive customer feedback.
Two excellent sources for tefl online pro reviews are our company Facebook page, and Trusted TEFL Reviews – the independently-run Online TEFL/TESOL reviews website:
It was recently brought to our attention that one of our competitors requests their customers to make their course payments through the Western Union money transfer service. This is also the preferred payment method for online scammers.
When making your course payment through the tefl online pro website, you have the option of making your purchase via Paypal, or with your debit or credit card.
This is one of the safest methods for making a payment over the internet – your information is safe and your consumer rights are guaranteed.
3. We always respond to emails/messages/calls within 24 hours.
Whether you are a potential customer asking for further course information, a current customer working their way through the course, or a tefl online pro graduate requesting international job support, we always respond to emails/messages/calls within 24 hours.
We feel that it is important to be quick with replies – especially regarding current students of the program, who often have an urgent course question needed answering before they can continue on to the next section of the course.
4. Feedback on lesson plan assignments and answers to course questions are responded to by a real person.
One of the common complaints that we see online, from people who have chosen to take their TEFL certification course with a different provider, is that (besides having to wait days for a response to an email sent) coursework feedback is often automated and severely lacking in substance.
tefl online pro customers can make use of the internal messaging system, contained within their personal course study account, and this acts as an instant messaging system. This isn’t an automated bot system – there is always a real person available to respond to messages with the relevant, detailed information which is required.
This personal touch is also replicated with the lesson plan feedback from your online tutor, you will receive after submitting each of the lesson plans that are mandatory assignments within the course.
5. All three of our award-winning courses come with complimentary (24/7) online tutor support.
Not all Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs include the online tutor feature, and those which do tend to charge extra for this service.
When you enroll in any one of our award-winning international TEFL/TESOL certification courses, you will gain automatic access to a personal online tutor, who will be there to answer any questions that you might have.
tefl online pro personal tutor services are available 24/7 – excluding Sundays and bank holidays.
Hey, we have to rest sometimes! 🙂
6. All three of our award-winning courses have been designed by experts in their fields.
TEFL Online Pro runs three award-winning, Fully Accredited and internationally recognized TEFL/TESOL certification online courses:
All three courses have been designed by respected academics within the international TEFL/TESOL community. In addition, the minimum qualification required to become a TEFL Online Pro online tutor is a TEFL certificate and a degree and/or Master’s in Education.
7. All three of our award-winning, user-friendly courses are fully responsive – study on a laptop, phone, or tablet.
Some Online TEFL/TESOL program platforms were designed over ten years ago, and in light of today’s technology are considered to be dinosaurs. This is especially an issue if you are on the go and want to complete your course on your tablet or phone.
The tefl online pro website and course study areas for all three courses are fully responsive – meaning that it is as convenient to study your course on a tablet or phone, as it is on a laptop or home computer.
This is a really important feature because we have read in some online TEFL/TESOL forums of students from other programs not being able to properly read course materials because the course has not been designed for anything other than laptop functionality.
8. There are no hidden fees – the advertised course fee is the only payment that you will be requested to make.
You see a great course price, you purchase the course, you work your way though the course. And then, at the end, when everything is complete, you receive a nasty surprise – your school issues you with hidden fees.
Unfortunately, this is common practice among some of the other well-known Online TEFL/TESOL certification course providers – it is a nickel and dime/ switch and bait tactic at the end, when you are placed in a corner and when most people just pay the fee(s) so they can receive their promised free service(s).
We don’t do this. We don’t charge hidden fees. What you see, is what you get.
9. All of our customers receive an Official Letter of Recommendation upon course completion.
When you have completed your course studies, we issue you with an Official Letter of Recommendation that really makes a difference in job interviews.
To date, we have a 100% success rate in helping our course graduates find teaching work – overseas, or online – and the recommendation letter definitely contributes to this very impressive statistic.
At any time during your teaching English career, if a school employer requests further recommendations then we provide these and make you out to be a superhuman English teacher. Well, after taking one of our TEFL/TESOL courses, you will be a superhuman English teacher 🙂
10. We issue course certificates within a couple of days of course completion.
We often read online how graduates of some other Online TEFL courses have had to wait weeks, even months, for their international TEFL/TESOL certificate to finally make an appearance.
This, in our opinion, is bad style and very poor customer service.
If you completed your course say on a Wednesday, we would ensure that your Official Letter of Recommendation and international TEFL/TESOL certificate are issued to you by the Friday of that same week.
11. Graduates of the program enjoy lifetime access to the tefl online pro International Job Guidance Team.
What is the main reason why people take international TEFL/TESOL certification courses?
It’s to get a teaching job afterwards!
All tefl online pro graduates receive automatic access to the tefl online pro International Job Guidance Team a couple of days after course completion, and with our vast knowledge and experience, we are here to guide you through the TEFL jobs minefield.
Oh, and we also help our graduates with polishing up their resumes/CV’s, so that you have a tailored resume/CV for the teaching English school you are applying to – for either teaching English online, or teaching English overseas.
12. The certification awarded is equivalent to the CELTA/Level 5 TEFL/TESOL qualification. The certification awarded is internationally recognized – our graduates teach English worldwide.
Both the 120-Hour Professional, and 140-Hour Hybrid courses are CELTA/Level5 equivalent qualifications; meaning that you can use your certification from tefl online pro worldwide, and for teaching English positions online too.
Our graduates teach pretty much everywhere where it is possible to teach English and we want to be a part of that journey with you too!
This article looks at where our customer reviews are predominantly published, and the red-flag Online TEFL/TESOL review tactics of some of our competitors that should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
To begin this article, it should be made clear that we welcome both positive and negative feedback of our services.
Of course, it would be great if every review that we received was a five-star review. But life doesn’t work that way. You can’t please all of the customers all of the time. And actually, a negative review is often a positive for us – negative reviews can possibly indicate to us where there is further room for improvement, so that we can develop as a company and develop in the delivery of our customer services.
We will start, with the review websites that we recognize as being trusted sources of TEFL/TESOL student and graduate feedback.
TEFL Online Pro | Facebook
Facebook is an excellent platform, where potential customers can read verified reviews from TEFL Online Pro students and graduates.
One of the major benefits of Facebook reviews, is that you can read a review and then check the poster’s Facebook profile; seeing whether the reviewer has a Facebook history and, therefore, if it is a legitimate review. This is arguably the best medium with which to tell if a reviewer is a real person, who has actually taken a TEFL Online Pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course.
Some examples of recent verified reviews posted on our company’s Facebook page, by students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification course program:
Trusted TEFL Reviews is a similarly excellent source of verified reviews of tefl online pro students and graduates.
According to Trusted TEFL Reviews, the owners of the website are a group of English teachers (based in Vienna, Europe) who set up the website in order to clean up the Online TEFL/TESOL reviews industry. It is a non profit website, so this avoids the grey area corruption that is prevalent in some of the other major Online TEFL/TESOL review websites.
Students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification program, who have left reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews, have reported back to us that in order for their review to be published they had to prove course attendance – submitting a copy of their international TEFL/TESOL certificate.
Trusted TEFL Reviews also allows Online TEFL/TESOL schools to respond to reviews.
Verified TEFL Online Pro reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews:
The ‘TEFL Online Pro Reviews’ section of this website also addresses reviews of the TEFL Online Pro TEFL & TESOL online international certification course program:
The Dark Underbelly Of Fake Online TEFL/TESOL reviews
And now, we need to take a look at the dark underbelly of Online TEFL/TESOL reviews.
There are two main ways in which some Online TEFL/TESOL companies manipulate their company reviews, in order to present a far rosier picture than what is true in reality.
The first way in which some companies artificially increase their review ratings, is by writing the reviews themselves and publishing them on websites that lack a verified review process. Another option for these unscrupulous companies, is to pay people (people who most likely haven’t taken one of their courses) to write reviews for them. One way of telling if a company is involved in this tactic is if they receive a bunch of reviews all at the same time – such as ten in one day.
The second way is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a form of fake reviews corruption, and it is a big problem within the Online TEFL/TESOL industry. Some of the more popular Online TEFL/TESOL reviews websites work on this principle. They encourage Online TEFL/TESOL schools to add a listing on their website, and they then receive an affiliates fee when a sale has been made. The issue with these types of review websites is that they often delete negative reviews, because it is bad business for their affiliate marketing model.
Affiliate marketing is also prevalent among bloggers who finance their world travels by claiming that such and such a course was AMAZING, and then they cream off the affiliate income when new customers use their coupon code when purchasing a course. It just isn’t possible to be objective about a product when the incentive for a blogger is to market it for their own financial gain.
So next time you read what appears to be a five-star review, shouting the praises of an Online TEFL/TESOL certification program, try checking to see whether there is an ulterior motive hidden behind the seemingly innocent review.
One thing that you can be certain of is that all tefl online pro reviews, published on Facebook and Trusted TEFL Reviews, have been written by actual students and graduates of the tefl online pro international TEFL/TESOL certification program.
We never waste our time trying to plant student and graduate reviews on unverified review websites, and we make it a principle not to add our school listing to review website that work on the affiliate marketing business model.
As an English speaker, born into one of the de facto native English nations (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States of America) there are very few barriers for you to freely teach English around the planet, in the global locations where English tuition is sought after in high demand – which is pretty much anywhere in the world, with the exception of Antarctica.
But let’s all leave the Earth’s southernmost continent alone, even if a burgeoning TEFL industry were to be one day considered there too.
Such is the international demand for learning the English language, that non-native English speakers also experience little difficulty in securing English teaching positions overseas – as long as their English language level is at C1 or C2 semi-fluency/fluency level.
Of course, the native English speakers will have the pick of the jobs first, but there are so many opportunities that our non-native English speaking graduates also successfully interview for teaching English jobs worldwide.
Many people choose to teach English overseas as a Gap year, some choose it as a way of taking a few years “off” while they go explore the world, and there is a growing trend for Baby boomers, and people born into the Silent Generation and Generation X, to use their TEFL/TESOL credentials in order to be able to live overseas; often teaching under tamarind-tree shaded sunlight and spending a portion of their disposable income on coconut oil massages and coconut water health drinks.
And then, of course, there are the migrating humans, that spend the summer months back home and who then fly to a much warmer part of the world to teach English when the first flakes of winter snow arrive.
It isn’t all champagne and caviar though.
Teaching English can be an incredibly demanding job.
Students often have the superpower of zapping energy from you like crystalline Kryptonite. Your days might be long. You might nurture dark thoughts towards particular students, and one or two will inevitably be mirroring your exact same excursions of the mind.
But, overall, you will – in the vast majority of cases – complete that class semester that occasionally drove you nuts, and you will miss those moments in your life when you found yourself reaching out to other human beings and sharing your knowledge; to people whose future quality of life, very likely, partly depended on their attendance at your English classes.
So yes, as with any job there are pros and cons.
But regarding teaching English, who else do you know that can honestly state that they work a 4-day week and are then able to spend a long weekend off on an exotic island, such as (for example) Koh Rong in southern Cambodia?
If you are reading this and suddenly feel that ‘itchy feet’ syndrome of wanting to get the hell out of where you are living and traveling the world, you can! 🙂
Or, if you would like to stay put for a while and earn money teaching English online, we have now also become experts in the field of helping to connect TEFL Online Pro graduates with high-paying online teaching employment, through our meticulous researching of online language schools.
No matter where you decide to teach English, you can be rest assured that you will always be guaranteed to earn an above average local salary.
In life, everything tends to be relative.
Please allow us to use the Big Mac Index as a variable of this relativity, to compare two teaching English locations: Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
In Switzerland, you can earn between US$30 to US$60 per hour teaching English. The average price of a Big Mac in Switzerland, according to the 2020 Big Mac Index, is US$6.71.
In the Czech Republic (Czechia) most teachers start off on a US$15 to US$20 hourly rate, although some diligent teachers, who hit the ground running at Vaclav Havel International Airport, have been known to earn up to US$50 per hour. But in realistic terms, starting out as an English teacher in the Czech Republic, the US$15 to US$20 hourly rate is a more helpful indicator for you. The average price of a Big Mac in the Czech Republic, according to the 2020 Big Mac Index, is US$3.76.
At this stage of the article, we want to sincerely apologize to our vegan and vegetarian customers and graduates. We decided to us the Big Mac Index simply because it’s just so useful in the measurement of purchasing power parity.
Explained in basic economics, if you choose to teach English in an expensive country, you will earn a higher salary and incur higher daily costs. If, however, you choose to teach English in an inexpensive country, you will earn a lower salary and incur lower daily costs.
We have tefl online pro graduates, for example, teaching English in Prague. They tend to work the same amount of hours per month. Most of them get by on a hedonistic lifestyle that some Czechs could only dream of aspiring. These teachers tend to spend their disposable income on lots of “me time” 🙂 And why not? It’s an amazing city and there are lots of bars, restaurants, theatre performances, etc., to spend money on. Some teachers, however, are much more prudent with their salaries and use their saved income to travel to warmer destinations in the winter holidays and for backpacking adventures in the long summer holiday months. And some teachers religiously save whatever they earn, to help pay off their student loan, and to have money in the bank when they either return back home or head off on their next teaching English abroad adventure.
The alternative, of course, is to teach English (from home) online. Hourly wages vary tremendously, but tefl online pro has an excellent network of online language schools that pay between US$20 and US$35 per hour. Not so bad, considering you save money on transport and time and you have that precious, sought after, ideal lifestyle of making money online.
So wherever (or however) you choose to teach English, your ability to save money won’t necessarily depend on how much you earn. We have examples of tefl online pro graduates who have gone off to South Korea to teach, and who have then returned home and been able to afford to put down a deposit on a mortgage. We also have graduates who choose not to save at all. And then there are the graduates that combine the two, by leading an active social life and still managing to put aside a sizeable chunk of their earnings each month.
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On The Road.
There can be no doubt that travel broadens the mind. Travel opens doors, removes window blinds, and allows you a glimpse of how other people lead their lives in different parts of the world.
And when you do have the opportunity to travel, which, btw, is only a recent phenomenon that our generation is the lucky lottery winner beneficiary of, you begin to understand that all of us share the same concerns, the same anxieties, the same needs, the same (or at least similar) dreams and hopes.
Unless you are a member of the One Percent club reading this, that owns and controls 34.4% of all net worth in the United States, you will be surprised at just how many things you have in common with people that you meet with around the world.
And teaching English is an incredible eye opener in terms of meeting students from all walks of life, and sharing your life experiences together.
We want to share with you five tips for traveling that have evolved for us over the years, when it comes to improving your quality of travel experience.
Pack light. Unless you are on an expedition to climb the peak of Mount Everest, you really don’t need to take that 100 liter backpack. I always travel with a 30 Liter backpack. It has side pockets, zippy things that you can zip or click things onto, and, most importantly, I don’t need to leave it in a coach hold and hope it’s there when I reach my destination. Plus, of course, it’s light. Try and find one with a rain sheet attached because then you have an added layer of security from unwanted thieves, by stretching it over your pack and hiding the entry points of your backpack.
Sign up with an Air Miles club. It’s unlikely that you will only take one flight in your life and when you rack up a significant number of air miles, you can then upgrade for that Business Class seat that you sometimes casually ask for an upgrade to in the Economy passenger line, but are inevitably always denied.
Go with your gut. My experience of travel is that most people are decent, hard-working folk. But there are a few bad apples out there. The eyes, whether kind-looking or hateful, usually give a person’s personality and intentions away. Never accept gifts from strangers (drinks, food, etc.) and if you do find yourself in a situation where your gut instinct is telling you to get the hell out of there, get the hell out of there.
Respect the local culture and familiarize yourself with local laws. In Thailand, for example, it’s the height of bad manners to touch people on the head. It’s also a faux pas to point your feet in another person’s direction. And if you find yourself at the Koh Phangan Full Moon Party and a stranger comes up to you with an offer of a substance which is now legal throughout Canada, don’t accept it. Before you head off to your chosen destination, please watch the National Geographic Video, ‘Locked Up Abroad‘ season. In the UK, they call it, ‘Banged Up Abroad’.
Enjoy! Enjoy the different aromas, cuisines, cultures, people. Be open to new (good-gut-feeling) experiences. It’s your world too, so go explore it!
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