TEFL classes after certification

Today I am in the midst of finishing the last assessment for the Level 5 Certification hosted through TTA TEFL. It also coincides with several sales. Yes, these organizations host sales with great frequency. However, I am trying to time getting moved to a different country. So, I signed up for follow up classes, even though I don’t have this last assessment done, and therefore the certification finished.

I want these classes to help refine my offerings and I am desperately hoping that they also provide me with more practice on analysing lesson plans, seeing as I am not confident even after 160hrs of lecture material in my capacity to do well by my students. This is a personal thing for me. I’m not saying anything ill about the course provider. I just like to do things only after I fully understand them.

So,

For almost all the money I made on this last editing job I took, I signed up for about 150 credit hours more in TEFL classes.

Teaching Business English: 30 hrsExam Preperation: 40 hrsTeaching English for Academic Purposes: 40 hrsTeaching English Online: 40 hrsTeaching Neurodiverse Students

I really want to be there for my clients, but I’m also probably procrastinating trying to gain clients by signing up for yet more classes. I’m not confident in securing the sort of clientel that would help me be a stable digital nomad, and I feel like it will be easier if I have more available to give them. Also, I want more information on how to deal with online classes. I’ve only had to deal with Zoom about three times in the last 5 years since it gained popularity, and I never initiated any of those calls. I couldn’t tell you without poking around the site how to send a client a file, sign in to start a video or anything like that. On top of that, there are probably more classroom websites than just Zoom and I have no idea what those are because I somehow graduated from university just a couple years shy of that becoming a prevalent thing. So, I’ve got gaps in my knowledge that need to be addressed.

The next thing to figure out is how to pass a CIPLE test for Portugal. That will probably mean hiring my own language tutor and getting to be on the other side of the screen for that.