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25 free online events to celebrate 25 years of teacher training

25 free events for english teachers

The year 2023 marks 25 years since Oxford TEFL first opened its doors to aspiring teachers and language learners. Since 1998 we have been trusted by over 5000 teachers to provide them with high-quality teacher training courses which have made a significant impact in their lives. So, we would like to thank you. And we […]

Free Teacher Development Workshops this March

We are pleased to announce the return of our free teacher workshops at Oxford TEFL Barcelona! These workshops are open to any ELT teacher who would like to develop their skills, pick up some practical tips and network with other teachers in the city. This is your chance to learn from experienced teachers and get […]

NEW for 2023! Certificate in Observing Teachers and Giving Feedback

Here at Oxford TEFL we are just adding the finishing touches to a course which will be of interest to anyone who’s involved in observing teachers and giving feedback. After the success of 2022’s new course (Certificate in Teaching Teens), we are delighted to present something totally different. Complementing the other ten online Teacher Development […]

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. […]

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 […]

Life after Taking the Trinity DipTESOL: Treading Water to Making Waves

After 20 years of working abroad in Turkey, Gabon, Bahrain, and Kazakhstan, David Dodgson has now returned to the UK as the EAL Coordinator at Bedford School. In addition to the Trinity DipTESOL, he holds an MA from the University of Manchester, the TYLEC, and a Certificate in Academic Management. He also presents at conferences […]

Rick Stein Comes to Cádiz!

Coming out of work one evening in June, we stepped onto the crowded square named after the man who is said to have invented the famous Cadiz carnival, and saw the usual tables full of diners, the iconic flowerpots that line the walls of the square, the plates of fried fish battered in the typical […]

Be a leader before a teacher – 5 practical tips

Gabor Lucski completed his Leadership in ELT online course at Oxford TEFL in May 2015. Read on to hear his views on leadership as a teacher and his top 5 tips via this guest blog post. As teachers, we often talk about classroom management. But when was the last time you had a discussion on […]

Internship opportunity in Kerala

If you are a native English-speaker, you could take advantage of the opportunity to work in a prestigious school in Kerala after completing our Trinity Cert. TESOL course starting on May 4th 2015.   From June 2015 – February 2016, you would be able to develop your teaching skills working in a school in the […]

Using Theatre Games in class

  Friday February 13th 2015 was the first day of our free teacher training workshops of 2015 in Oxford TEFL Barcelona. On this day, Andy Travis, Oxford House teacher and actor, gave an interactive workshop which stimulated the imaginations of the workshop attendees into brainstorming, discussing, evaluating and finally participating in some of the top […]

Trinity Cert. TESOL course – stripped bare!

What is the Trinity Cert. TESOL course really like? What type of person am I likely to meet on this course? Do I have the courage to apply and get through the course?   Our trainees from February 2015 demonstrate with this quirky video the highs and lows, the funniest and the most challenging moments […]

Innovate ELT Conference May 8th – 9th

We are excited to announce that Oxford TEFL Barcelona will be hosting the Innovate ELT conference this May. This conference is in conjunction with ELT Jam and three IATEFL SIGS (Special Interest Groups) and will be different to a regular conference.   As well as traditional presentations, there will also be talks which include mini […]

FREE teacher workshops in Spanish

free spanish teacher workshops barcelona

Are you a language teacher in Barcelona? Take advantage of our free teacher training workshops at our centre next to Passeig de Gracia.   We are launching a new series of teacher workshops in Spanish open to any teachers who are interested in learning some practical and useful ideas which they can take straight into […]

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