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A Google search for Oxford Seminars Reviews shows, when excluding the company's cherry-picked reviews and advertising, that Oxford Seminars, an accreditation program to teach English as a second language (ESL, TESL, TESOL) is probably worth the money. Most people on various review sites seem to praise the book as being instructive and practical. Based on those reviews, and a suggestion from a friend that I take the course, I decided to read the entire book (cover to cover), take the course, and report my findings as I went along. Since there is no index to the Training Manual (see below), I scanned the physical book (for personal educational use only) into a searchable PDF file on a high-speed book scanner to support my results below.
DISCLAIMER
In this review, I respect the copyrights of Oxford Seminars (OS) and the authors and publishers involved in the course. Because OS students must sign Waivers, Disclaimers, Terms and Conditions, and other legal documents preventing publication of extracts from certain areas, I cannot always quote directly from the works or systems involved. However, in all other cases, I am asserting my rights to critical review, as copyright expert and lawyer Steven Fisher explains in his book, Copyright Handbook: "An author is free to copy from a protected work for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, or research so long as the value of the copyrighted work is not diminished."
COURSE REVIEW: Oxford Seminars TESOL/TESL/TEFL Certification Course# 2329
Overview
Pricing: The course costs about $1200 USD. To "test drive" the program, I purchased a used 2009 (99% equivalent to the 2011) edition of the Oxford Seminars Training Manual for $15 from goodwillbooks on the Amazon Marketplace. After reading the book, I attended the class.
Course: The course contains two parts: the Seminar portion and the Online portion (powered by the free, open-source Moodle education project). The Online portion begins upon successful completion of the Seminar (lecture) portion. The Seminar also requires a practicum, which is a 30 minute "class," based on a Lesson Plan that you must present to the class of ESL teachers and is subject to their evaluation.
Seminar Portion: On day 1 of class, our professor gave us two books: The 2011 version of the Oxford Seminar's Training Manual and Jeremy Harmer's How to Teach English books. On the last day of the course, we received a third book Focus on Grammar, along with Oxford Seminars Job Search Manual.
Online Portion: Oxford Seminars sends you an e-mail which grants access to the Online Portion. To access the system you must agree to a Disclaimer and Waivers document which includes this language: "You shall not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works, or in any way exploit or use the material, in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Oxford Seminars." Because of that agreement, I cannot legally critique language verbatim from that portion here, though I will give my impressions (see my disclaimer above).
Reading Requirements: The above-mentioned manual contains 484 pages and How To Teach has 288. That's 772 pages without the handouts, which were roughly 50 pages. If you want to complete the readings during the seminar portion, consider that you must read roughly 882 pages in 21 days or roughly 33 pages per day -- every single day! I suspect that few students accomplish this. I didn't (though I had read the entire manual prior to attending the seminar) and none of my peers did either. The Focus on Grammar book with answer key is nearly 550 pages long. The Online Portion adds another 100 pages of material, so in total, expect about 1500 pages of material. In practice, most students probably read some of all of the books after the seminar portion and during/after the 40-hour required Online portion. You have 105 days to complete the 40 hour Online component, so if you give yourself 105 days, that's roughly 1500 pages / 105 days = 14 pages every day starting the day after seminar day 6 ends. Our teacher also assigned (very easy) homework on Saturdays, due on Sunday, which mainly consisted of watching videos and analyzing the teaching methods involved.
A Google search for Oxford Seminars Reviews shows, when excluding the company's cherry-picked reviews and advertising, that Oxford Seminars, an accreditation program to teach English as a second language (ESL, TESL, TESOL) is probably worth the money. Most people on various review sites seem to praise the book as being instructive and practical. Based on those reviews, and a suggestion from a friend that I take the course, I decided to read the entire book (cover to cover), take the course, and report my findings as I went along. Since there is no index to the Training Manual (see below), I scanned the physical book (for personal educational use only) into a searchable PDF file on a high-speed book scanner to support my results below.
DISCLAIMER
In this review, I respect the copyrights of Oxford Seminars (OS) and the authors and publishers involved in the course. Because OS students must sign Waivers, Disclaimers, Terms and Conditions, and other legal documents preventing publication of extracts from certain areas, I cannot always quote directly from the works or systems involved. However, in all other cases, I am asserting my rights to critical review, as copyright expert and lawyer Steven Fisher explains in his book, Copyright Handbook: "An author is free to copy from a protected work for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, or research so long as the value of the copyrighted work is not diminished."
COURSE REVIEW: Oxford Seminars TESOL/TESL/TEFL Certification Course# 2329
Overview
Pricing: The course costs about $1200 USD. To "test drive" the program, I purchased a used 2009 (99% equivalent to the 2011) edition of the Oxford Seminars Training Manual for $15 from goodwillbooks on the Amazon Marketplace. After reading the book, I attended the class.
Course: The course contains two parts: the Seminar portion and the Online portion (powered by the free, open-source Moodle education project). The Online portion begins upon successful completion of the Seminar (lecture) portion. The Seminar also requires a practicum, which is a 30 minute "class," based on a Lesson Plan that you must present to the class of ESL teachers and is subject to their evaluation.
Seminar Portion: On day 1 of class, our professor gave us two books: The 2011 version of the Oxford Seminar's Training Manual and Jeremy Harmer's How to Teach English books. On the last day of the course, we received a third book Focus on Grammar, along with Oxford Seminars Job Search Manual.
Online Portion: Oxford Seminars sends you an e-mail which grants access to the Online Portion. To access the system you must agree to a Disclaimer and Waivers document which includes this language: "You shall not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works, or in any way exploit or use the material, in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Oxford Seminars." Because of that agreement, I cannot legally critique language verbatim from that portion here, though I will give my impressions (see my disclaimer above).
Reading Requirements: The above-mentioned manual contains 484 pages and How To Teach has 288. That's 772 pages without the handouts, which were roughly 50 pages. If you want to complete the readings during the seminar portion, consider that you must read roughly 882 pages in 21 days or roughly 33 pages per day -- every single day! I suspect that few students accomplish this. I didn't (though I had read the entire manual prior to attending the seminar) and none of my peers did either. The Focus on Grammar book with answer key is nearly 550 pages long. The Online Portion adds another 100 pages of material, so in total, expect about 1500 pages of material. In practice, most students probably read some of all of the books after the seminar portion and during/after the 40-hour required Online portion. You have 105 days to complete the 40 hour Online component, so if you give yourself 105 days, that's roughly 1500 pages / 105 days = 14 pages every day starting the day after seminar day 6 ends. Our teacher also assigned (very easy) homework on Saturdays, due on Sunday, which mainly consisted of watching videos and analyzing the teaching methods involved.