Friend Karen Richardson has reached out to the teacher development community to help out a colleague. She sent me the following email (also posted on our Facebook page):
“A colleague has asked me whether I would be her assessor/tutor for her Teaching Practice. She intends to take a cert TESOL course run by intesol. It’s a 150 hour online course that claims to be equivalent to the Trinity certTESOL and the CELTA. http://www.intesolinternational.com/cert-ES-TESOL.shtml
I’ve never heard of …this course before and so am wondering whether it is really as serious as it claims to be. Can anyone offer any advice please?”

I have to admit that I’ve never heard of them (not necessarily a bad thing), so I can’t really comment. But perhaps one of our readers can…