TPR Teaching Caitriona Maria

TPR Teaching Caitriona Maria

TPR Teaching Caitriona Maria

This is (sigh) yet another example of an online TEFL company behaving badly, and is yet another reason why The TEFL Academy (https://www.theteflacademy.com/) remains on the Trusted TEFL Reviews scam list (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/x-online-tefl-course-scams/) of online TEFL/TESOL course providers that act unethically and misrepresent themselves to TEFL students.

Back in March 2021, Trusted TEFL Reviews received a TEFL Academy review that contained a lot of marketing language. When it was decided that the review was in direct contradiction to our review submission guidelines, we took the decision not to publish the review.

The review had been submitted by Caitriona McTiernan, who likes to go by the online alias “Caitriona Maria”.

When we decided not to publish Caitriona’s review, due to the fact that she works for The TEFL Academy, that should really have been the end of the story.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t.

Caitriona took offense. Was seemingly outraged. Acted as though it was our obligation to publish her keyword-packed The TEFL Academy review.

Intrigued, Trusted TEFL Reviews took a look at Caitriona’s blog, and we noticed a few important elements:

1. The homepage of the website has been designed to give the impression that TPR Teaching is a source of basic information for English teachers, looking for handy teaching tips.
2. The website strongly recommends The TEFL Academy online TEFL course, which, btw, is not a fully accredited TEFL program.
3. The website recommends some very shady online TEFL courses which are similarly not accredited or internationally recognized.
4. Caitriona writes about TEFL locations around the world, but a lot of her information is either inaccurate or misleading.

One more thing that we noticed, a few weeks after Trusted TEFL Reviews declined to publish Caitriona’s The TEFL Academy review, was a scathing attack on Trusted TEFL Reviews by Caitriona “Maria” McTiernan.

When we looked closer, we saw that Caitriona simply copied the misinformation spread by Ian Leahy, from ESLinsider. Ian Leahy is notorious within the TEFL industry for publishing rubbish online about his business competition. More about Ian Leahy and ESLinsider:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/03/eslinsider-reviews-scam/

Of all the TEFL programs to aspire to, The TEFL Academy and Caitriona “Maria” McTiernan couldn’t have picked a worse one in ESLinsider TEFL.

Caitriona is relatively young and we initially didn’t feel comfortable publishing a post about her shilling of The TEFL Academy. However, over time, we have noticed how shrewd she is and how invested she is in promoting The TEFL Academy through outright lies.

Therefore, we feel that this post is a public service for any future TEFL students who may stumble across her blog and who will likely be unaware of the behind-the-scenes hidden agenda of Caitriona’s website.

Incidentally, Caitriona only began her website in early 2020 and it already enjoys quite a significant Google ranking presence. We assume that this is because The TEFL Academy clandestinely promotes it behind the scenes, through link farming techniques.

So, therefore, the TPR Teaching website, owned and operated by Caitriona “Maria” McTiernan, is simply an extension of The TEFL Academy’s business model.

Caitriona has been a TEFL Academy student and is completely welcome to write what she likes about her experience of the program, despite the fact that she mentions things like it is a “highly accredited course”.

However, she also earns money by recommending other TEFL programs that she has no direct experience of and which she earns an affiliate’s commission from each time an unwitting person buys a TEFL course through her website.

For example, Caitriona praises and promotes the MyTEFL online TEFL program.

MyTEFL has also been exposed for their fake accreditation and the way that they misrepresent their job placement services to their TEFL graduates:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/01/24/the-mytefl-com-scam/

The TEFL industry is full of individuals who see an opportunity of making some affiliates marketing money by recommending courses that they know very little about.

Caitriona is one of these people.

It is not positive for the industry, and it is not positive for the TEFL students who suddenly find out one day that their TEFL certificate course was a waste of money when an employer or government agency declines their job or visa application.

This is all that we are going to write as of this point because I personally feel that I have summed everything up already.

What I will do now is complete this article with images and comments, which further cement the fact that websites such as TPR Teaching are bad for the TEFL industry.

Incidentally, when Trusted TEFL Reviews tried to add a comment to the TPR Teaching website, our comment wasn’t published by Caitriona. We have received complaints from other people who have also not had their comments published on Caitriona “Maria” McTiernan’s website.

We would advise treading carefully and taking anything published on the TPR Teaching site with a generous dose of skepticism.

Caitriona and The TEFL Academy are welcome to add a comment to this article.

Mia Williams

trustedteflreviews.com

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Related articles:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2021/03/30/6-tefl-red-flags/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2019/03/25/the-tefl-academy-certification-review/

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May 2022 Caitriona Maria McTiernan Update

This is a quick Trusted TEFL Reviews update, highlighting the continued harassment that I (Mia Williams) have been receiving from TTA The TEFL Academy, and one of its employees: Caitriona Maria McTiernan.

Trusted TEFL Reviews received these two messages from Caitriona Maria two days ago:

At first, we refused to delete the comments.

But then, we decided to delete these two comments from this article because we get how some people can act and say really dumb things when they are stressed out.

When we received yet another message, also from Caitriona Maria McTiernan – a message that we can’t publish on here because of the intense use of expletives and graphic threats – we made the call to publish the screenshot that we had taken of Caitriona’s previous two comments submitted to trustedteflreviews.com on May 17th.

TTA The TEFL Academy and its Brand Ambassador Caitriona Maria McTiernan are very good at marketing. However, I’m not certain how they are going to market themselves out of this one.

Perhaps, they could ramp up their dairy-farm production.

Or, is that morally more bankrupt than faking TTA The TEFL Academy reviews?

I feel I would rather take a fake TEFL course than eat industrial dairy-production butter and milk.

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Essential TEFL Tip!

Don’t get scammed by online TEFL/TESOL courses.

Some providers overstate accreditation, make false job promises, or fail to give internationally recognized certification.

Before you enroll, check out 10 Things to Know Before Enrolling in an Online TEFL/TESOL Course (2026 Guide) to spot red flags, verify accreditation, and avoid wasting time and money: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2026/01/31/online-tefl-tesol-courses-10-things-to-know-before-enrolling/

Once you know what to watch for, choose from the top programs in The 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL Courses in 2026: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2026/01/31/best-online-tefl-courses-tesol-2020/. Picking a trusted, fully accredited course ensures your certification is accepted worldwide for online and overseas English teaching jobs — and keeps you safe from scams.

— Trusted TEFL Reviews | https://trustedteflreviews.com/

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There are now two (Affiliate Marketers) paid to claim TTA The TEFL Academy is the best in the world at TEFL.

Caitriona McTiernan, we know from this article.

Megan Broccoli is another – now Italian, having lived all her life in Miami (Sembra pronta a reinventarsi completamente quando le conviene.)

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