Tag Archives: Teaching

Great Places to Teach English

Every year thousands of people leave their home to travel and teach English overseas. They go to experience a new culture, work overseas, put off getting a “real” job, and earn lots of money doing it. Sometimes they are just backpackers who ran out of money and are looking for an easy job [...]


Teaching English Overseas, part 5

This is the last part in our series on teaching English overseas. This final section gives you resources on the web where you can go to find jobs and other ESL related information General Information Dave’s ESL Cafe- The PREMIER ESL site out there. This site has everything you could ever need and should be the first [...]


Teaching English Overseas, Part 4

Continuing our series on teaching English overseas, we’re going to our attention to other parts of the world. In part one, we talked about the various jobs you can get. In part two, we discussed what you need, and in part three, we discussed teaching in Asia. Since Asia tends to be the primary focus [...]


Starting a Revolution

“Sit down!” I said. But the student still got up. “Sit down. You’re disrupting the class.” I repeated. The student looked over at his friend, said something in Thai, and continued drawing on the board. I moved over from the other side of the room, and again told him to sit down. He looked at me and moved [...]


Teaching English Overseas, part 3

Part one of this series dealt with the various types of job a teacher can get while part two dealt with the qualifications needed to become a teacher. In part three, we’ll begin to discuss the places teachers can work. We’ll start with Asia, the hot bed of ESL activity. Korea. This country is at [...]


Teaching English Overseas, part 2

In part one, we talked about the different types of jobs you can get. In part two, we’ll discuss the qualifications you need to teach. Teaching English around the world requires different skills in different places. Depending on where you go and what type of job you want, what qualifications you will need will vary. Generally [...]


Teaching English Overseas

This is the first in a five part series about teaching English overseas It’s not that hard to become an English teacher overseas. When I began looking for ESL jobs, I thought that without a TEFL degree, I wouldn’t find any but before I knew it I was getting lots of jobs. While teaching, I met [...]