Promise Opens Doors

As the online TESOL industry steadily ramps up its requirements for aspiring online English teachers, there are ever more TESOL certificate options available for those in search of qualifications. Many of these programs serve the simple purpose of satisfying the minimum requirements of a new job, frequently taking the form of e-books or video lectures wit...

From immigrant children in Baltimore to students and teachers around the world, it has been Promise Opens Door's mission and joy to bring opportunity to those who would not otherwise have it.

The online TEFL/TESOL industry is in high-demand. There are a lot of training programs out there and misinformation that could you lead down the wrong path. Find out more!

Promise Opens Doors is proudly partnered with English First (www.englishfirst.com), a division of Education First, to share with you this highly sought-after opportunity to travel abroad and teach in a legitimate and well-recognized establishment. 

Based in Boston, and founded in 1965, English First is one of 16 divisions of Education First. Focusing on l...

Promise Opens Doors is offering a one-week free trial for the TESOL/TEFL Certificate Program for Online Teaching!

This free trial showcases the caliber of training provided in Promise’s program. While there are many TESOL certificate programs available online, there are very few intended specifically for online teaching; and among them, the TESOL/TEFL Cert...

Here we share an interview with Elizabeth Drayton, a teacher trainer at Break Into English, an online English academy that offers personalized high quality 1-to-1 English classes via Skype with native teachers. 

We’ve been speaking to seasoned pro Elizabeth Drayton who has over 10 years’ experience teaching English all over the world and now works as teach...

All online English teachers offer a unique skill set from our previous experiences and backgrounds. Each of us also must continuously reflect on our teaching practice and invest in professional development for online English teaching in particular. We at Promise Opens Doors ask - What steps are you taking to ensure success for yourself and your students i...

After more than fourteen years of hiring and training online teachers, online TESOL pioneer Promise Opens Doors has launched a comprehensive, asynchronous, fully-online training program catered specifically to this field. As part of the introductory event, Promise has opened the door for a limited number of trainees to join the program tuition-free. Twent...

This is a question that has always been discussed and that has come up in online forums lately, following news of a policy by the Chinese government requiring a TESOL/TEFL certificate for all teachers working with Chinese students.  We have written before about the employment requirements by English language schools and organizations in various locations....

Happy New Year from Promise Opens Doors!  As mentioned a year ago in our 2017 Year in Review, we launched 2018 by at last planting the seed of an idea we had been carrying for over a decade: to create a certificate program out of our expertise as online teachers.

We began by identifying the key objectives of an effective certificate program for online lang...