Teach your students to teach.
A 120 hour internationally recognised TEFL qualification that runs quietly alongside A levels. Students study at their own pace, you see their progress, and they finish sixth form with something on the CV that very few of their peers will have.
Delivered online · Six months of access · Progress visible to staff throughout
The TEFL Institute is one of Europe's largest TEFL trainers by teachers certified. The course is externally accredited by the Online Teaching Course Accreditation Committee, a UK based accreditor of online courses, and it carries 120 CPD credits accredited by The CPD Group.
A note from Chloe
Hello. I look after partnerships here, which in practice means most of my week is spent on calls with heads of sixth form, enrichment leads and careers leads.
Nearly every one of those calls starts in the same place. There is a slot to fill, there is pressure to make enrichment add up to something on paper, and there is almost no time to go hunting for a programme that will still matter to a student six months later.
That is what this is. A 120 hour qualification your students work through online at their own pace, alongside A levels, with their progress visible to you the whole way so nobody has to chase anyone. It suits some cohorts far better than others, and if I think yours is one of the others I will tell you rather than sell you a place.
If you want to talk it through before committing to anything, email me directly. I answer my own inbox and there is no pitch waiting at the other end of it.
Two people need to say yes to this.
The head of sixth form needs it to fit the timetable and stand up at inspection. The student needs it to be worth their evenings. Here is each side of that.
Bring it into your school
Timetable models, enrichment credit, what staff actually have to do, and how the four step sign up works from quote to first login.
What it actually gets you
An honest account of what a TEFL certificate lets you do at eighteen, what it unlocks later, and what it is worth putting in a personal statement.
Why schools put it on the enrichment list
It is a real qualification, not an activity
Students come away with an internationally recognised certificate, a personalised reference letter and a record employers can verify. It survives the gap between school and the first job in a way that a lunchtime club does not.
It gives them something concrete to write about
Lesson planning, grammar under pressure, adapting to a learner who is not following. Those are specific experiences a student can describe, which is exactly what admissions tutors ask for and what most applicants struggle to produce.
It costs you almost no timetable
The course is self paced online with six months of access. Schools typically give it a weekly enrichment slot and let students carry the rest. Staff monitor progress from a dashboard rather than teaching content.
Running it in grades 11 and 12
Most of this page is written for UK and Irish schools, so here is the same thing in the language a US high school uses. Everything below applies to independent, public and international schools alike.
Grades 11 and 12, one semester
Our Year 12 and Year 13 are your junior and senior years. The course carries 120 guided learning hours with six months of access, which sits comfortably inside a single semester whether you run block scheduling, a daily advisory period or an after school club.
No prep periods, no grading
It is delivered online and marked by us. Each student has a tutor and there are weekly Zoom sessions. Your side of it is one member of staff watching a progress dashboard, so it does not compete with an existing course for staffing.
Something real for the activities list
Students finish with an internationally recognised certificate, a personalised reference letter and a qualification an employer can verify with us directly. It also opens paid online tutoring work, which is unusual for a school age activity.
What it is not. This is a UK style vocational certificate. It does not carry US high school credit, Carnegie units or AP or IB points, and we will never tell a family that it does. Districts that want it on a transcript usually list it as an elective or an enrichment credit at their own discretion. Ask us and we will put the course specification in front of your curriculum office so they can decide.
Will it fit your enrichment programme
Tell it your year group, the slot you have and the size of the cohort. It returns a delivery plan you can take to a curriculum meeting.
The enrichment fit planner
Nothing is sent anywhere. This runs in your browser and you can print the result.
Where could this actually take you
Most teach abroad routes want a degree, so we have split the answer into what you can do at eighteen and what the certificate banks for later. No sales pitch, just the rules as they stand.
Where could this take you
Three routes matched to what you say you want, with the age and qualification rules attached to each.
Sixty seconds of the actual course
Five questions taken from the grammar and classroom modules. Not a personality quiz. These are the kinds of decisions a teacher makes in front of a room.
The 60 second taster
Get one wrong and you will still learn something. That is rather the point of the course.
Ten modules, each ending in a quiz they can retake
The full 120 hours. Students move through in order, at whatever pace the school sets.
What schools ask us first
It does not have to. The course is self paced with six months of access, so most schools give it one enrichment slot a week and let students carry the rest at home. Schools starting after the summer exam season often run it in a much shorter block instead.
One member of staff, usually the enrichment or careers lead. Their job is to hold the school registration code, keep an eye on the progress dashboard and chase the two or three students who stall. There is no content for staff to teach or mark.
They keep whatever they have completed and can carry on until their access runs out. Because the assessment is by module quiz rather than a single terminal exam, a student who gets to module seven still has seven modules of genuine work to talk about.
The course itself can be taken by sixth form students. What changes with age is what you can do with it afterwards. Paid teaching abroad almost always requires you to be eighteen, and a great many countries also require a degree for the work visa. The student pages are explicit about that so nobody is sold a false promise.
Each of the ten modules ends in a quiz. Students can retake a quiz, which keeps the emphasis on learning the material rather than on one high stakes attempt. The certificate is issued when all ten are passed.
Pricing is tiered by cohort size, so the per student figure falls as the group grows. We quote in writing against your actual numbers rather than publishing a single price, because a group of twelve and a group of ninety are very different propositions.
Yes. Some schools run it as a funded enrichment strand, others put the course on the optional list and let families enrol using the school code at the school rate. Both work and we can set either up.
A named external qualification, ten modules of documented content, per student completion records and a certificate at the end. It is a good deal more evidenceable than most enrichment activities.
The enrichment briefing, once a month
Period six is where enrichment usually ends up, so that is where we put the newsletter. One email on the first Tuesday of the month for heads of sixth form, enrichment and careers leads, and heads of department. Nothing in August, because nobody is in.
- What other sixth forms are actually running, and how they fit it into a week
- UCAS and personal statements, including what changed this cycle
- Inspection and framework wording worth quoting in your own evidence
- Dates and deadlines, far enough ahead to still be useful
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What it costs per student
Move the slider to your cohort size and you get the per student price and the total for the group. No form, no email gate, and the figure on screen is the figure we quote.
The cost per student calculator
Pricing is tiered, so the per student figure comes down as the group grows.
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Tier three, 30 to 49 students
What staff have told us
Integrating the 120-hour TEFL course into our curriculum was seamless. The flexible structure fit perfectly with our school timetable, and students genuinely enjoyed learning practical teaching strategies. Many of them are now considering teaching abroad during their gap year.
Our pupils thrived with this TEFL course. The content was engaging and easy to implement into their weekly schedule. They left the programme feeling empowered and skilled to take on opportunities like teaching online, tutoring, or working internationally.
The TEFL course has been an incredible addition to our school's extracurricular programme. Students found it practical, inspiring, and fun. It not only fit into our schedule with ease but also provided them with a qualification that opens doors to teaching and travel opportunities after school.
Get a quote for your cohort
Pricing is tiered by the number of students, so the per student figure comes down as the group grows. Tell us the year group and rough numbers and we will come back with a written quote and a start date.
Request a quote and pick a start date
A short form or an email is enough to begin.
An advisor talks it through with you
Cohort size, timetable, who is administering it at your end.
You get a registration code
Students enrol themselves online using the school code.
Students get instant access
They start straight away and you can see progress from day one.
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