Contact us for more information:
When you fill out a contact form you will receive:
- TEFL Institute brochure
(18 pages) describing the world English teaching market, interviewing process and types of TEFL courses available. - International country chart
providing basic information about teaching English in the most common nations including typical wages, hiring cycles, educational requirements, visas, and hiring procedures. - Online class guest login
to see for yourself how TEFL Institute provides online class training on the web platform used by most US Universities. - Links to our TEFL class curriculum and syllabus.
- You will be assigned a TEFL Advisor
to speak with you to discuss your questions and options available in the teaching market and TEFL Certification that are best for you. This Advisor is an expert in living abroad and TEFL Certification, and can help make your dreams of living and working overseas a reality.
We can provide:
Personal program advisor: to answer your questions about TEFL training and different options of teaching English overseas. This person will have a personal program advisor who has lived overseas to give you advice and answer your questions. Our advising staff has lived, worked and traveled to over 50 countries.
We can give you advice on which TEFL certification course will be best for your teaching goals. Our expert team can also give you advice and information on the step by step way to be trained and move overseas as a professional English language instructor.
Brochures on our programs:Guest login information for our online course, detailed course syllabus, typical teaching information for countries on contract lengths, hiring processes, degree requirements, seasonal hiring periods, approximate salaries.
Please let us know:
- Which TEFL program you are interested to learn more information about
- Which area of the world you may want to teach
The best email, phone number and time to reach you (note, some emails such as yahoo may not get through your spam filter, please include an alternative email and a phone number to insure we can reply to you promptly)
The TEFL Institute is located in Chicago, Illinois with various TEFL class sites around the world. TEFL Online and TEFL Professional courses are available to students around the world via the internet.
We are located at:
1906 W. Irving Park Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60613. USA.
Office hours: Monday - Friday. 9 am - 7 pm Central time.
Telephone: +001 773 880 5141
Fax: +001 773 880 5940
We welcome personal visits to discuss your training options. Please call in advance to reserve an appointment with a program advisor.
Directions:
Address is 1906 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago.
We are about 1 mile Northwest of Wrigley Field.
Driving:
From 90/94 exit at Irving Park/Pulaski and drive East for 2.5 miles. You will go 1/2 block past the Damen/Lincoln/Irving Park 6 way intersection. If you go under the train viaduct you went too far.
Parking:
There are meters along the streets, bring a lot of quarters, the Chicago Parking Department loves to issue tickets. There is also residential parking around the block to the north and south of Irving.
CTA Train:
We are off the Brown Line, exit Irving Park Road. Take a right turn (west) out of station and walk 1 block. We are on the ground floor, big windows.
Red Line from north suburbs: Exit at Sheridan stop, walk left out of station to Irving (1/2 block). Cross street and get on 80 Bus going west. 1 mile and 5 minutes, get off bus at Brown Line stop and walk 1 block west.
Blue line: Exit station to Irving Park Road. Go East on 80 Bus for 2.5 miles. Exit at Damen Stop. Cross the street and walk 1/2 block east to our office.

