It’s easy to get a job teaching English as a Second Language overseas even without any license or teaching experience, especially in Asia. Usually you do need a bachelor’s degree to get a working visa, but it doesn’t matter what you studied. Of course, if you have teaching experience and/or certification the schools will snatch you up and you might be paid more, but there is such an incredible demand for English teachers abroad that some schools will accept anyone who is a native speaker.

The quality of schools and programs varies widely. I got certified in TESOL from my university (my major was Intercultural Studies); and after I graduated I applied for the JET Program which is one of the higher-end ways to teach English abroad. Through this program, the Japanese government hires several thousand native English speakers each year to be assistant teachers in public schools throughout Japan, especially in the countryside where there are not many foreigners. The application process takes half a year and the finalists have to interview at an embassy or consulate. The pay, vacation, benefits, and prestige are higher than the average of other overseas English teaching jobs. In this position you do mostly team-teaching where you are supposed to plan lessons and teach together with a Japanese teacher of English.

I know many people who took a different route and were hired by private Language School companies. A few of the big-name companies in Japan are NOVA, ECC, AEON, GEOS, GABA, and Berlitz. (There are similar schools in China and South Korea too.) Such schools often have recruiting offices in major cities such as Chicago, Toronto, London, etc. People hired through these schools go through about a week of training sessions once they arrive. They often have to pay their own airfare, teach classes on their own for 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, have about 10 days of paid leave per year, and may receive help in finding an apartment (though the contracts vary).

If you want to know more details about people’s experiences in these teaching positions, there are tons of blogs online. One guy even made a comic strip about it. You can see it at: http://www.angelfire.com/comics/esid/ There are lots of inside jokes that may only be understood by those who have taught abroad. The guy named his comic strip ESID, which stands for “Every Situation Is Different” – a phrase used often in our orientation because it’s hard to generalize what it’s like to do this job when each town and school presents a unique situation.

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I coach English in Spain. Depending within the college they ask for gurus or no longer, if you happen to seem on the fees they cost, you notice the greater faculties. OK, so local audio system are greater are educating vocabulary and are very well for the solutions. And academics who’re from the nation of starting place have more commonly studied English philosophy, which many natives have not a clue approximately, additionally they’re more commonly greater at educating fundamental grammar as they understand what it used to be love to be trained English as a foreigner. it is a nice process and really pleasing, if you happen to do it good, the primary hindrance is that plenty of backpackers desire to earn handy cash and most effective keep for a couple of months, then it is the scholars who emerge as affliction. You have got to have an attractive constructive grab of grammar if you do not desire to seem a idiot, it is a pity that they do not coach extra grammar in English faculties because it could aid in studying different languages. You check out explaining ‘inversion’ and ‘phrasal verbs’ to persons with out realizing what you are speaking approximately. (I’ve visible it performed and it is painful to observe!!)