Tefl Courses, needed or not?

by Rico on February 27th, 2006

How useful are TEFL courses in preparing you to teach? Are they of any use or would you be better off in the end teaching yourself how to teach? What are your thoughts on the matter? I want to know both on this page and in our discussion forum, but please don’t name anything specific providers by name. The poll will run for 10 days.