to consider TEFL online?

[itsjustlowhangingfruit]

I want to work from home and I see a lot of these jobs advertised

I see a lot of courses that seem fairly cheap, like £200 for a level 5 course I think it is?

but - I'm not a teacher, I have no teaching experience.

Would I need lots of props, and lesson plan knowledge? Or would all that be provided?

Can I teach adults instead and how do I get into that as I can only see jobs with kids.

How would I find a decent employer with good rates?

You don't think a £200 course qualifies you to be a teacher, surely...

I said TEFL courses

But TEFL is teaching. It’s a massively skilled job teaching English to non-native speakers.

My sister runs TEFL training. Just make sure you sign up w a reputable provider who should answer your questions before taking your money.

Unless it's actually properly accredited, you can just as easily go for free on YouTube🤷🏻

You will not gain employment with £200 online tefl. If you want to do it, you need proper course.

You dont have to be a teacher to take a TEFL course, or to use one to teach afterwards. Many tefl graduates go on to teach adults, or teach abroad, so a pgce would be of limited use anyway, although some schools might ask for one.

My mate did it and she's good at it. She did I think 8 weeks training and is a certified TEFL teacher.

Not sure who she went through - she is fluent in English, Spanish and French though. Although she hates doing it online so now she's moving to Spain 😂

There are a lot of random 'Tefl' courses out there. Some seem a bit dodgy.

The decent ones really are Cambridge CELTA or Trinity CertTESOL. I found my CELTA to be 4 weeks of pure stress! Learnt a lot though. And supposedly there are a lot more online opportunities than when I was doing it.

Be warned to brush up on your grammar rules (what's the difference between past simple and past continuous to give a random example) as they expect you to know before you start.

British council I think is one of the reputable accreditators of Tefl so they will have a lost of courses.

But yeah. Then you need to prepare lessons, keep learning, you can teach adults, of course, etc.

Yeah, CELTA is well known and worth the time unlike many others

A £200 course is not going to teach you how to teach. You will be competing with unqualified teachers for the lowest paying work. Properly paying EFL / EAL / ESOL jobs will require something like a CELTA or DELTA. Think about the experience you would require of someone you are paying to teach you. Would you pay to be tutored by someone whose only experience was a £200 online course?

The CELTA cannot be done purely online (there is teaching practice) and is much more expensive than £200. TEFL (especially online) is a very saturated market, it really is a race to the bottom in terms of pay.

You can do a random £200 tefl cert from Joe bloggs dodgy school of English but it really won't get you very far professionally or financially. The City & Guilds courses though more expensive would be a better option if you're only planning on staying in the UK and don't mind competing with 'properly' qualified teachers. By 'properly qualified teachers in the English Language teaching world this means either the Trinity Cert TESOL or the Cambridge Cert. Both are pretty tough going and require a lot of work, generally speaking on the intensive 4/5 week courses you're life will be taken up with assignments, lesson planning, reading, observing others teach etc.
Over the last year the CELTA has been running online which is not ideal, the blended learning approach has also become more popular.
For info on the Cambridge CELTA look on the Cambridge ESOL (I think) website, you can also get a list of schools offering it. International House are probably one of the main providers in the UK and internationally along with the British Council.
As far as how much you'll earn...ad an inexperienced newly qualified teacher, around £10 an hour and often that will only allow for a minimum of prep time (if any). As a warning, at the beginning of their tefl careers teachers will often spend hours on prep for a 40 min class plus more on creating resources that already exist.