What's the difference between a TEFL Internship and a TEFL job?
We get asked this question from time to time and it’s a good idea for us to define exactly what we mean by the term "internship" for our TEFL Internships programs.
An internship is usually a good idea if you have little or no experience in a certain industry. Internships are generally created to give you a taster of a certain career and can be for short or long periods of time. Within an internship, sometimes there is less responsibility and other times full responsibility is required. Sometimes the actual everyday tasks are mundane and "just being there" is a big part of the internship and experience. On other internship schemes you are a full part of the company and tasks are exactly the same as the full position. Wages may be less or the same than the average salary for that type of job.
What is a TEFL Heaven TEFL Internship then?
TEFL Heaven 'TEFL Internships' can be translated as 'TEFL job for newbies into the TEFL industry'. Basically our internships are designed as an introduction to the TEFL industry, and the difference here is that you get TEFL training before getting launched into what is essentially a proper TEFL job. Our TEFL Internships start with a full 120 hour TEFL Certificate and 3 weeks of face-to-face training on a paradise island or beach, meaning you adjust to the country and to what the job entails, before actually doing the job.
The actual teaching placement is the exact same as having a TEFL job and you have full responsibility as the teacher of many classes. There's no mundane tasks involved here (well, lesson planning might be mundane for some!) and so you get the full experience of being the teacher for around 4 months or more. You will also be paid the market rate for TEFL teachers in Thailand, which is 30,000 THB per month.
Whichever TEFL Internships course you choose to apply for with us, you are guaranteed great training and a great experience with like-minded people, followed by a great teaching placement, with enough money to get by and then some!
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