ITTO - TEFL Certification Courses & Teach English in Mexico

I enjoyed my 4 week course at ITTO in Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico 🇲🇽 It was an intense course, but staff were very supportive and I was able to keep up and successfully meet all the requirements for graduation 👩🏽‍🎓. I have since then gone on to successfully complete my Business English certification which was all online. It was 1998 when I received my bachelors degree. If I can do, anybody can do it.

As a certified teacher of 10 years going into this program, I was impressed. I have taught ESL in public schools, and wanted my international certification to teach abroad. I chose this program last year and loved it! The course is 120 hours for 4 weeks, and I was truly amazed how well it was organized. Professor Del Alto was very informative, and passionate about the English language.

The only critique I would have would be on the lack of classroom management. ***Classroom management is important, but each school has their own expectations of how it should be implemented. For this reason, it was not a strong focus of the coursework.**

This program is centered on teaching high school, or adults so I would STRONGLY suggest to study classroom management before you jump into an elementary school setting. If you're wanting a job in an elementary school then reach out to all your teacher friends and they can give you a plethora of resources to help you in that first year.

I personally did not need job placement because I am contracted to teach for the next year in my home state, but I will use the job services in the future when I'm ready to teach abroad. Overall, it's definitely worth every penny for the experience!

This in-person TEFL course was really amazing! If you’re looking for a TEFL certification course with extensive teaching practice, then this is the place. They partner with a neighboring language school called IMAC so that trainees get 10 practice teaching lessons with real students learning English. I really benefited from all of the practice, and Prof. Del Alto, who teaches the course, is such a passionate and dedicated instructor, he really knows his stuff. He also works at the University of Guadalajara with their languages department, along with being an all-around amazing teacher of English with plenty of experience teaching in Mexico as well. Highly highly recommend this course if you want to feel more confident about stepping into the classroom than you might with only an online course.

Absolutely excellent. When applying for the TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico, I was taken perfect care of by one of the advisors who guided me through the whole process and was always there to support me and help out.
The course itself was led by a very professional trainer with years of experience in teaching English and after completing all of the teaching practices I felt very ready to start working right away - which, thanks to ITTO, happened. They kept their promise of a job placement and I started working a week after graduating.
If you're still hesitating whether to do it or no, the answer is definitely YES! :)

ITTO Guadalajara is incredible. Every aspect of my experience there exceeded expectations. The course was fantastic, in-depth, and taught by an excellent mentor. The administration was very professional and helpful. The practice teaching was invaluable. The facilities are clean and conveniently located. All in all, an amazing experience and incredibly well organized, I highly recommend it!

The intensive 4 week course covers grammar/pronunciation points, teaching methods, classroom management, and gives teaching practice. Surely it is difficult to cover ALL that is needed to prepare a teacher in one short month, but I believe that students are made aware of various topics/situations that they will come across as English teachers and are given resources to prepare for them. Having nearly 0 teaching practice before coming to ITTO, after taking the course I do feel much more prepared to begin a career as an English teacher.
-Jamie

Thanks to my month-long International Teacher Training Organization (ITTO) course in Guadalajara, I now feel prepared for a career in English language teaching. The authentic teaching practices in IMAC set this course apart from other courses. Not only have I been able to learn best practice English teaching theories and skills, I have also been able to put them into practice regularly with the teaching practices in IMAC and with peers in our ITTO classroom.

Thanks so much to Marc (our trainer) and to the girls in the office. You make ITTO such a warm and inviting place to be. We were especially impressed with Marc. He is knowledgeable, talented AND incredibly patient and calm.

Far more hands on and educating than I anticipated, and only in a good way. ITTO ensures that you will become a competent and skilled English teach in just three short weeks. Highly recommend, and the staff is great.

I am changing my review from one star to five stars because ITTO has resolved an error that was on my account. Thank you to Treisi for caring about your TEFL students' success and happiness.

I highly recommend the course itself. It far excelled my expectations in both rigor and depth. As a retired elementary teacher, I thought I knew a lot about the art of teaching, but I learned a lot more about the specific needs of EFL learners at ITTO. Our main instructor was an expert in the field and I benefited greatly from his expertise. If I were to rate the course instruction and content on its own, I would definitely rate it 5.stars. However, because of some significant communication issues regarding my accommodation arrangements while attending the course and my registration for the free week of Spanish classes offered by ITTO after the 4 week course, I have to give the ITTO organization as a whole only 3 stars. Although I was notified by my appointed course advisor, before my arrival, that my 5 week stay was confirmed at a local apartment building, along with my registration for the Spanish class, neither of these proved to be true. I was told after 4 weeks that my apartment was booked for the following week to someone else. The manager had no clue about my reservation for 5 weeks. Consequently, I had to quickly find alternative accommodation at a much higher price. When I arrived at the Spanish class the next week, they did not know who I was. I was also told that there were no beginner classes that week, only intermediate. I had specified that I was a complete beginner in Spanish when I registered. I tried out the class they offered me, but quickly realized that it was way over my head. Had I realized that, I would never have registered for it. Although the administrator and staff at ITTO were profusely apologetic about both issues, I was not offered any compensation for what was a serious communication fail on their part, ending up costing me a lot more than I anticipated and my not receiving what I was promised. I strongly advise anyone who is interested in taking this course to verify all the details regarding your accommodation and registration to avoid a repetition of my experience. The staff at ITTO are very kind and hardworking people but their communication with the outside parties that provide services for their trainees is sadly lacking.

It is with great pain and sadness that I write this review owing to my love and respect to the employees of ITTO, the students at IMAC, and the Mexican people in general. I first started online taking classes from ITTO because they offered 100% job placement upon completion of the online component as well as the teaching practicum at the adjoining English school, IMAC. Therefore it was great joy and expense that I headed to Guadalajara to complete the teaching practicum and begin work. And even though I completed both teaching components with high marks, I was never offered employment in Mexico though I waited three months for an assignment. Further, ITTO is without excuse since their affiliated English school, IMAC, need only hire me for, say, three classes a week, in order to fulfill their commitment. All and all, I spent just under four months in Mexico expecting to work, four months that cost me a lot of money, but ITTO was unfaithful to their guarantee. True, I came to love Mexico more and more during this time, but ITTO should not advertise 100% job placement if they cannot fulfill it. I therefore cannot recommend ITTO though I do love Mexico as well as all the staff and students I met at IMAC and ITTO.

Worst place ever wasted 2500$ on poor teaching skills as well as facility place stunk so did the people that went also look at the video's of graduates 😂🤪that right there should stop you wish I would’ve seen those first😆😂💯

Do not waste time or money sent wife and she was horribly horrified by everything there

Terrible dont waste ya money please save your self