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• May, 07 2021

How to get started as a private English teacher!

As many language schools wind down or close for the summer, teachers may have to look at offering private lessons to keep themselves going. If managed properly, private lessons can provide you with a very good living. Teaching privately is also a goo...

Maria Di Mario • May, 04 2021

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...

Richard Davie • April, 06 2021

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...

Maria Di Mario • March, 16 2021

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...

Maria Di Mario • March, 08 2021

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...

Maria Di Mario • March, 01 2021

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...