TEFL career progression - what does it look like?
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) gives you the chance to live and work overseas, immerse yourself in an exciting new culture and meet new people. For those who make the leap, it can prove to be a life-changing experience. But it does come with a few questions: can you make a career out of TEFL? ...
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The TEFL Iberia guide to becoming autónomo

You’ve weighed up the pros and cons of going autónomo and you’ve decided you’re going to go for it. Making that decision is just the first step – the process of becoming autónomo can seem bewilderingly complicated, so we’ve put together a rough guide...

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From Mexico to Barcelona: Meet Angola

At TEFL Iberia, we love welcoming students from all over the world. Angola joined us on our January course all the way from Mexico so we sat down for a chat about studying TEFL as a non-native English speaker and how she found her TEFL Iberia experie...

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Meet our course director, Richard

We’re running a series of blogpost interviews with the TEFL Iberia team and first up is Richard, our founder and school director. Richard grew up in Scotland and studied Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. He moved to Barcelona in 2008, where h...

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Eight inspiring female teachers

It’s International Women’s Day this week, so we thought we’d mark the date with a blogpost celebrating eight inspiring female teachers throughout history.  Natalie Zahle Born in Denmark, her parents died when she was ten years old, and the orphaned N...

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Being a Business English teacher

When I first started learning to teach English and thought about business English it conjured up images of men in suits, massive offices and demanding students. They would have difficult questions about English and wouldn’t suffer anyone who didn’t k...

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Our favourite terraces in Barcelona

Terraces – the tables grouped on pavements outside bars – are a big part of social life in Barcelona, especially in the summer. There’s one on every corner with groups of friends having a drink or a tapa together outside on summer evenings. We love g...