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Teaching English in Barcelona: Our step-by-step guide to getting started

Every year, thousands of English-speaking individuals choose to embark on an exciting journey – teaching English abroad. Among the plethora of destinations available worldwide, Barcelona has emerged as a hot favourite. With its intriguing mix of tradition and innovation, ancient and modern, sea and mountains, Spain’s second largest city presents an attractive landscape for aspiring […]

InnovateELT 2023 Conference: innovative, in-person, and in search of speakers!

InnovateELT is back, and we have some exciting changes to tell you about! Marking its 9th edition this year, the event will take place at Oxford TEFL Barcelona on 20th and 21st May 2023. As always, the event promises to bring together everyone and everything that makes our industry innovative. Sound like something you could […]

A quick coffee with… Anna Stubbs (CELTA Course Director)

Anna Stubbs

If you’ve read our two latest blog posts, you’ll know that we’ve been introducing our readers to the key people at Oxford TEFL. Our dedicated and experienced staff members are a major part of what makes us stand out from the crowd, so we want our community to know who’s who! That’s why I sat […]

InnovateELT 2022 Conference: some of the best takeaways!

The breakout rooms are closed, the coffee all drunk, and the InnovateELT conference is done and dusted for another year! It was a big one this time for Oxford TEFL, with the return of the face-to-face event. As we explored in a previous post, members of our community were telling us that they were ready […]

A quick coffee with… David Young (DipTESOL Course Director)

David Young

Welcome to the second in our series of quick interviews with the key people from the Oxford TEFL team! Last month, we introduced you to our founder and Director, Duncan Foord. Now, it’s time to meet someone else who has been with Oxford TEFL since the early days, over twenty years ago. There have been […]

InnovateELT 2022: 5 reasons to attend the conference!

With little more than three weeks to go until the eighth annual InnovateELT conference, we are hard at work putting the finishing touches on what is certainly our most ambitious event yet. Since its inception, InnovateELT has focused on innovation in language education and celebrated some of the most exciting things happening in our industry. […]

A quick coffee with… Duncan Foord (Oxford TEFL Director)

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A company is only as good as its people, as the saying goes. Here at Oxford TEFL, we couldn’t agree more. Our team of dedicated professionals is what allows us to stay passionate and continue providing high quality teacher training. Indeed, without them, there’s no way we could have continued to grow and thrive since […]

Boost your TEFL CV and income during the holidays: 5 top tips!

The Easter holidays are upon us here in Barcelona, and many teachers are looking forward to a well-deserved break. However, time off normal teaching duties also provides a chance to boost your income. It may also present an opportunity to gain work experience in a new area of TEFL, as well as broadening your professional […]

How I managed – and enjoyed! – the DipTESOL course as a new parent

I decided to take the Trinity DipTESOL shortly after finding out that my wife and I were expecting a baby in 2020. When I started the course, I couldn’t help but worry about how I would manage all of the assignments alongside supporting my wife, working and preparing myself for an extra little family member. […]

Discover the metaverse and what it can offer teachers!

Anyone who has seen reports of Facebook renaming itself as Meta and the accompanying videos of Mark Zuckerberg sharing with us his vision of a future internet that integrates with our physical environment while we wander around as virtual avatars, might be forgiven for thinking the metaverse was a new idea that has emerged from […]

NEW: Certificate in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

Formación ELE

Looking for a way to put your Spanish language skills to good use? Teaching Spanish as a foreign language (la enseñanza del español a hablantes nativos de otras lenguas) could be for you. Our new course Certificado de Profesor de ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera) is ideal if you (or someone you know) wants to […]

The Innovate ELT 2021 Conference by OxfordTEFL

What did we learn from last year’s online conference, and what will be different this year? Last year was our first InnovateELT online conference. We aimed to replicate all the warmth and sparkle of our traditional conference online, not an easy thing to do in the wake of zoom fatigue and a prevailing consensus among […]

Finding the right teaching position in China

michael frost tell the story about finding teaching job in china

Michael Frost completed the Trinity DipTESOL with Oxford TEFL in 2012 and is currently working in China. Here he explains what it is like to teach in China and his top tips for those thinking about taking up a teaching position there. China can be a fascinating location for a post-Cert TESOL teacher embarking on […]

Meet Alistair Melvin, Trinity Dip TESOL graduate

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Hi, my name’s Alistair, I’m an EFL teacher currently working in Saudi Arabia. I completed the Trinity DipTESOL course in August 2013. After a long break, I came back to teaching about 3 years ago, and as I’m now +40, I realised that if I was going to pursue EFL as a profession I really […]

Free teacher workshops at Oxford TEFL Barcelona this November

If you are in Barcelona, why don’t you take advantage of our free teacher training workshops at our centre next to Passeig de Gracia? These workshops are open to any TEFL teachers who are interested in learning some tricks of the trade from experienced teachers. From vocabulary for young learners to classroom management to activities […]

Teaching and living in Dubai: what you need to know

Have you ever wondered where the best salaries for TEFL teachers can be found? One of them could very well be Dubai. Teachers in Dubai can expect to earn lucrative salaries and competitive benefits packages. Teaching in private international schools across the emirate of Dubai, teachers will join multinational staff and teach in schools offering state […]

Be a host to our trainee teachers

Would you like to be a host to our Barcelona teacher trainees? We are looking for new hosts in the centre of Barcelona to provide accommodation for our trainee teachers. Our trainees generally come for 4 or 5 weeks and the courses run 11 months of the year. If you can answer these questions with […]

7 Tips for new EFL teachers

A guest post by Billie Haase Billie is a teacher and trainer in Oxford House Barcelona. She has an MA in Communication Research and Phonetics and a PGCE in primary education. She also has the Trinity Diploma in TESOL  and has been teaching English for a number of years. If you would like to hear […]

Teaching online

A new year has begun, so perhaps now’s the time to jump into a new field of teaching: teaching online. There are a plethora of websites which offer teachers the opportunity to make additional income teaching online, something which could provide an interesting alternative income stream for experienced teachers. And that’s always welcome in these […]

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