How A TEFL Course Can Change Your Life

Have you ever thought about implementing significant change in your life? Would you like to travel the world, work, live like a local, learn a new language and become a citizen of the world? Then you have probably considered becoming an English language teacher by studying a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certificate Course.   

The decision to take a TEFL Course can be a life-changing one, for many different reasons. From my personal experience, it involved walking away from a well-paid job and the comfortable stability of life in Australia to study in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This initial change involved being forced to learn another language and adapting to life in a Third World country. However this was also the beginning of two great loves - discovering my love and connection with South America, and realizing that teaching was my true vocation. That was many years ago and I am now the proud owner of TEFL Zorritos, a Paradise TEFL institute in a small fishing and surfing town on the coast in Peru.
However, enough of me, let's examine some of the ways a TEFL Course can change your life;

• Language - if you choose to study your TEFL course in a foreign country you will benefit from being obliged to learn and use a different language for at least the duration of your course.
• Live abroad - for anyone with a love of travel their ultimate dream is to be able to live like a local in a foreign country, and a TEFL course enables you to be able to do exactly that. Once you are qualified you can choose to live and work almost anywhere in the world.
• Communication - teaching is all about communication and in your one month intensive TEFL course you will learn how to communicate effectively, which is a priceless life skill.

So, whether you become a life-long TEFL teacher once you complete your TEFL course or not is actually irrelevant, either way you will have already received the benefits of changing your life with a TEFL course.