What can I do with a TEFL certificate?

All sorts of things! It’s certainly true that most people start off by working as a TEFL teach overseas. But there are many other possibilities. You could work in a private language school or you might work in anything from a primary to a high school.

Many TEFL teachers work by teaching in companies, in nurseries or kindergartens, or even in higher education colleges and universities. Although to do so you would probably need a few years’ experience first.

If you don’t like being a teacher, you could also become a language teacher’s teaching assistant in a public school (state school) or in some big chains of language schools.