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    International English Teacher 101: How to Start, Grow, and Succeed as an International English Teacher Worldwide
    International English Teacher 101: How to Start, Grow, and Succeed as an International English Teacher Worldwide
    International English Teacher 101: How to Start, Grow, and Succeed as an International English Teacher Worldwide
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    International English Teacher 101: How to Start, Grow, and Succeed as an International English Teacher Worldwide

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    Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) or to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is a hot career choice these days. The desire to see the world is common. Travel is one way, but people are finding it hard to take vacations these days. What if you could combine seeing the world and working? It is not easy to find jobs overseas unless you have very specialized skills and advanced foreign language fluency. For native speakers of English, TEFL/TESOL seems like a great solution.

    There are as many ways to teach English overseas as there are people willing to teach overseas. Indeed, your motivation for doing so should be your main influence when selecting where and how to teach. Here are just a few of the ways to teach English overseas:

    • Here are many chains such as English First and Wall Street that operate language centers in countries around the world
    • On several continents, and in Asia especially, there are also small, individual language centers, such as the hagwons in South Korea
    • You can teach in a public schools at pre/primary, middle and high school levels.
    • You can also teach at private schools. Many countries have an American school or a Canadian school, or and International School offering an IB program
    • You can teach at public universities. Teaching hours are very few, but class size is very high, so if you’re teaching composition, for example, you’ll have a lot of correcting to do
    • You can teach at one of the many private colleges popping up all over- some with associations with US or Australian universities
    • You can teach as a volunteer at a village school or in an orphanage
    • You can teach as a missionary or with one of the many religious service organizations that are non-proselytizing
    • You can teach executives as a consultant with one firm (inhouse) or with a service that has many corporate clients
    • You can teach with a government program such as EPIC in Korea or JET in Japan. This means you will have many peers teaching in country with you, though perhaps not in your town
    • You can teach with one of your own government’s programs- as a Peace Corps volunteer.
    • You can teach with a multinational organization - as a United Nations volunteer, or with an NGO teaching refugees for example.
    • You can teach as a private tutor or join the growing ranks of people teaching English online

    There is bound to be a TESOL/TEFL job that’s the right fit for you. How to find that right fit is what this book is all about.

    HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateMar 12, 2020
    ISBN9781950864171
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      Table of Contents

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      Chapter 1: How to Succeed Teaching English as a Foreign Language

      Chapter 2: How to Succeed Teaching English at a Public School

      Chapter 3: How to Succeed Teaching English at a Private School

      Chapter 4: How to Succeed Teaching English at a Religious School

      Chapter 5: How to Succeed Teaching English at a Language Center

      Chapter 6: How to Succeed Teaching English at a Company or Agency

      Chapter 7: How to Succeed Teaching English at a College or University

      Chapter 8: How to Succeed Teaching English in an Orphanage or Village School

      Chapter 9: How to Succeed Teaching English at Camp

      Chapter 10: How to Succeed Teaching English Online

      About the Expert

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      Chapter 1: How to Succeed Teaching English as a Foreign Language

      I have lived most of my adult life in different countries teaching English. Now, it does so happen that I am an academically-minded person, so I was able to earn a Master of Arts in Education, but that only really comes in to play with some of the university jobs. For almost all the jobs we will be looking at teaching English around the world, any native speaker willing to take a short TESOL course can do as I did. Maybe. I say that because it is not a career for everyone. The rewards it offers and challenges it presents are laid out bare and honest in this book to help you decide if you are the type of person to survive and thrive in such a position. When I give speeches recruiting for Peace Corps, I begin with a list of the diseases I contracted in the Sahara. Then I say that I would do it again knowingly. I think this encourages and discourages the right people. Most of these jobs are not as extreme as my Peace Corps service was, but every job teaching English in another country and culture will stretch you in ways you cannot always imagine. Some people enjoy this more than others. But I believe that for almost everyone who has the desire to buy and read this book, there is an English teaching job out there that is right for you. That is why I try to lay out the details about all different kinds of teaching English as a Foreign Language.

      There are chapters about teaching in public and private schools and religious and military schools and public and private universities and camps and villages and in chains, companies, and online. I have not taught in all the regions of the world, but I have taught more than once in most of the major regions. If you have an idea about an area of the world where you wish to teach, or you are totally wide open, there is a lot of cultural information in the following chapters to help you decide:

      AFRICA

      MALI - Chapter 8

      SENEGAL - Chapter 4

      EUROPE

      HOLLAND - Chapter 9

      SWITZERLAND - Chapter 9

      REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA - Chapter 2

      ASIA

      CHINA - Chapters 5

      KOREA - Chapter 7

      THAILAND - Chapter 7

      LATIN AMERICA

      MEXICO - Chapter 6

      HONDURAS - Chapter 3

      One of the challenges of teaching abroad is that you end up with volumes of stories and observations, whereas most people who even condescend to ask how your experience was, lower their mind shields after about two minutes. Yet, there are no shortage of people who wish they would have had the experiences I had and ask for advice about how to do it. Recently, a friend’s 23-year-old Cajun daughter was planning her first extended trip abroad to Transylvania, the Hungarian speaking part of Romania – which is one of the many places, like the majority of countries in the world in fact, where I have never travelled. I sent an email to my friend Ben, a Florida trucker who taught himself Russian in order to look for love throughout Eastern Europe. He sent me this email:

      Sure.

      I used what's app to keep in touch with everyone back home. You just need wifi. Keep a copy of your passport in your email and a hard copy separately from your passport. Make sure you

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