Which English-teaching certificate should I get?

[optimisticzoomer]

Thinking of teaching English in China
Most places just require a TEFL certificate, which can be completed quickly online for cheap. Tbh if I did this I would probably spend £120 for a semi-decent one, even tho u can get them for giga cheap, or there’s even a free one

You can also do a CELTA course for about £1400, which is a full time in person course for a month, which you’ll actually learn something from

So TEFL = cheap, quicker, generally will get u the same jobs in China that CELTA would, but won’t prepare someone with no experience teaching English, and isn’t standardised so there are a bunch of courses

CELTA = more expensive, more time and effort, but more respected and likely to make you more confident once you actually get a job, and the content is the same everywhere as it’s an official qualification

China doesn’t seem to care too much about whether you have CELTA or not, but some countries do

 

[inversions]

Surely if you get the same job quicker, you'll just build that confidence that you supposedly gain from CELTA through pure experience

- 16 year old tutor

 

[aids]

TEFL if poor and unserious.
CELTA if not poor and serious.

 

[copeuntilumakeit]

Thinking of teaching English in China
Most places just require a TEFL certificate, which can be completed quickly online for cheap. Tbh if I did this I would probably spend £120 for a semi-decent one, even tho u can get them for giga cheap, or there’s even a free one

You can also do a CELTA course for about £1400, which is a full time in person course for a month, which you’ll actually learn something from

So TEFL = cheap, quicker, generally will get u the same jobs in China that CELTA would, but won’t prepare someone with no experience teaching English, and isn’t standardised so there are a bunch of courses

CELTA = more expensive, more time and effort, but more respected and likely to make you more confident once you actually get a job, and the content is the same everywhere as it’s an official qualification

China doesn’t seem to care too much about whether you have CELTA or not, but some countries do

get tefl, you don't need a certificate, they do (assuming you want to teach there for a long time)

 

[optimisticzoomer]

Surely if you get the same job quicker, you'll just build that confidence that you supposedly gain from CELTA through pure experience

- 16 year old tutor

True, but it kinda feels daunting going into a job like that blindly

 

[optimisticzoomer]

you don't need a certificate, they do

Wdym?

 

[copeuntilumakeit]

Wdym?

i mean that you don't want to do certifate because you want to. You want it because they need it. So there s no point in doing the other one IF you only think about china

 

[optimisticzoomer]

i mean that you don't want to do certifate because you want to. You want it because they need it. So there s no point in doing the other one IF you only think about china

Fairs
I’ve heard people saying they accept even the shitty cheap certificates, as it’s just to tick a box for a visa, but then I’ve heard others advise against those, perhaps because some places might care more about whether u care enough to invest a little