Teaching English as a foreign language - classic or dud?

Hope that helps.

A friend of mine is doing volunteer ESL with immigrants. She loves it. It's a fairly advanced level English, however, so she gets really frustrated with figuring out how to teach strange tenses and such. English is a really difficult language.

Where are you thinking of going? What sort of groups are you looking into?

So there's an example of someone who obviously thought it was classic.

south korea=north korea's burgeoning nuclear arsenal
japan= north korea's burgeoning nuclear arsenal and the guts is falling out of the yen.

eastern (which they now like to call central) europe is probably the most fun.

My female friend who did JET w/ high schoolers in Japan said that one of the more popular classroom activities, for both students and teachers, was speculating about the color/shape/size of caucasian (or in her case, semitic) genitalia.

I know people in College who went to Spain after graduation to teach English. They felt in the end that while it pays reasonably well and fills in that awkward Just-left-college-without-a-clue-what-you-want-to-do-with-your-life phase, it doesn't ultimately lead anywhere. which could be good, or bad.

surely they are usually bigger than japanese genitals.

Everything you need to know about it is there. I got offered a lecturing job in media in Thailand not so long ago but didn't take it. Not enough cash at the time to support myself out there should it have gone tits up. In general I'd say tread carefully, but this site should give you some good info.

will anywhere that takes ppl w/o completed bachelors degrees be super duper shady? also whatever happened to calum?

Anyone fancy teaching in Russia for a while or know someone who might? One of my clients has a vacancy for a native English speaker with a CELTA. Would be based in St Petersburg but involve lots of travel to cool places like Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Kazan, the Urals, Siberia, Sakhalinsk, etc.

Probably wouldn't pay much but would be fun.

Any thoughts on this?

https://nativecamp.net

I've run into some unexpected career difficulties, and starting to think about a plan B, possibly part time for the moment while I continue looking for work. Never thought about anything like and assume its a scam but it did come through a legit jobs site

It looks pretty standard for a Japanese website. There are a load of online TEFL sites & apps now, generally they seem to accept almost any native speaker with or without qualifications/experience, but the downside is odd & unreliable working hours and low pay. I tried a Chinese one for a few months when I returned to the UK in 2016 and it never really paid well (transferring wages from China to the UK is also a nightmare) OTOH there is very well-paid online pre-sessional work out there if you are experienced and qualified.

Unless I'm able to get another dev job I suspect my options are going to be fairly limited! So "from home" and "not zero" is better than nothing. Still a ways from that point at the moment but no harm in thinking about alternatives

I also thought about doing part-time teaching through an app while I was looking for a dev job, but I have a TEFL certification and the app I was looking at required that. I know some of the online TEFL courses are pretty cheap, but I'd be worried that the market is too crowded, possibly slow getting started

I have just started doing a little bit of this on a voluntary basis in my town. I am partnered with an Arabic-speaking teacher, and we teach a small class of (at the moment) Syrian adults. I've only done two classes, but I have been having an absolute ball. The other teacher did say that this is a particularly good group. They really want to learn, and they are happy to speak up and make mistakes so you can help them improve -- a dream for any teacher. So we'll see what happens after Christmas when a new group comes in. I've promised the organization that I will do it for six months, even if I decide I hate it.

I don't have any TEFL qualifications, but many years ago I did get adult literacy tutor training, which has a lot of similarities. If I decide after six months that I'm going to keep doing this, I will probably get a qualification, just so I can feel a bit more legit.

I did the CELTA TEFL course a few years ago and it was great - really intensive training with a lot of practice and feedback, and all the instruction was genuinely useful and focused on teaching techniques, which has not been the case with any other teacher training I've experienced.