Teaching English Abroad [Paperback]

Your best single source for training and finding a job --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

A mine of information --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Invaluabe... full of practical guidance and information --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

The bestselling one-stop guide for teaching English abroad

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to travel and work?

Have you considered teaching English abroad?

If you want to combine work with the chance to travel and see new countries, there are plenty of opportunities worldwide to teach English as a foreign language. And this bestselling guide shows you how to do it! With more and more people considering teaching English as a foreign language, this guide offers extensive and essential information for anyone wishing to teach the English language abroad.
Packed with detailed information on training as an EFL teacher, you’ll find all you need to know inside. Whether you’re a trained or untrained teacher, or you’re looking for a long or short-term placement this book helps you plan and prepare, don’t spend hours trawling through websites, we’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to:

• Pick the perfect  training course anywhere across the globe
• Get prepared -expert advice from insurance to employers
• All the contact information you need with country-by-country teaching  opportunities
• Real life accounts from people have been there and done it
• Expert advice to deal with any unexpected mishaps.
• Up-to-date directory of more than 380 courses for training as an EFL teacher
• 1,150 language school contacts plus useful websites.

Teaching English Abroad covers over 90 countries around the world. It gives you all the official information like regulations  and working conditions, as well as an up-to-date directory of prospective employers. Make sure you have everything you  need at your fingertips when planning and embarking on Teaching English Abroad.

DEFINITIVE. Now in its fifth edition and widely recognised as the definitive guide to finding a job overseas in the booming field of teaching English.

WIDE APPEAL. A book for the total beginner and the classroom-hardened professional alike: covers the prospects for those with and without English teaching qualifications.

COMPREHENSIVE Lists employers offering both short and long term work in over 70 countries around the world.

ESSENTIAL READING Also includes a directory of 325 TEFL courses lasting from a weekend to three years. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Everything you need to know:

Preparing to go
-Rewards and risks of teaching English
-Red tape and what to take
-Avoiding problems

Training as an English teacher
-The value of qualifications
-The full range of ELT courses available, lasting from a weekend to 3 years

Finding a job
-Recruitment organisations and useful websites
-Dealing with interviews
-Finding freelance work and jobs on the spot

Choosing your destination
-Over 90 countries covered
-Prospects for both qualified and first-time teachers
-Conditions of employment
-Visa requirements for teachers --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Looking for an exciting opportunity to travel and work?

Written by the world expert on finding work abroad, this best-selling guide is essential reading for anyone considering teaching English in a foreigh country.

Whether you're a trained or untrained teacher, or you're looking for a long or short-term placement, make sure you have everything you need to know at your fingertips:

-Discover your perfect training course from over 90 countries worldwide
-Get prepared with official information on regulations, requirements and working conditions
-Gain insider advice and first-hand accounts from EFL teachers on the road
-Increase your chances of employment with an up-to-date directory of over 1,000 language school contacts

If you want to know where the jobs are, what they are like and how to get them, we've done the hard work so you don't have to! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Susan Griffith is the author of a number of bestselling travel titles including Gap Years for Grown-ups, Your Gap Year, and Summer Jobs Worldwide. Susan specialises in writing books for travellers and is regularly cited in the press as a travel expert.

Excerpted from Teaching English Abroad by Susan Griffith. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO TEACH? Anyone who can speak English fluently and has a lively positive personality has a fighting chance of finding an opening as a teacher somewhere. Geordies, Tasmanians and Alabamans have all been known to be hired as English teachers (not to mention Norwegians and North Africans), though most employers favour native speakers of English without a heavy regional accent. MOTIVES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH There are perhaps five main types of individual to be found teaching English from Tarragona to Taipei: the serious career teacher, the student of the prevailing language and culture who teaches in order to fund a longer stay, the long-term traveller who wants to prolong and fund his or her travels, the philanthropic or religious person sponsored by an aid organisation, charity or mission society, and finally the misfit or oddball, perhaps fleeing unhappiness at home. DIRECTORY OF TRAINING COURSES Cambridge Certificate (CELTA) Courses All courses last four weeks full-time unless otherwise stated. The fees quoted (which should be taken merely as a guide) include the CELTA examination fee of £74.70 (þSD120) unless otherwise stated. ANGLIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tel: 01223 363271. Fax: 01223 352933. E-mail: m.l.baker@anglia.ac.uk. Full-time in July and August only. 9.30am-5pm. Includes 6 hours of teaching practice and 8 hours of observation of experienced teachers. £970 (including examination fee). Accommodation can be arranged in APU halls of residence. Information is supplied about jobs. ANGLO-CONTINENTAL TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE, 29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA. Tel: 01202 557414, ext 282. Fax: 01202 556156. E-mail: english@anglo-continental.com.Full-time (125 hours) 3 courses per year. £900. Part-time courses over 6 months proposed. Accommodation can be arranged. ANGLOSCHOOL, 146 Church Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 2NT. Tel: 020-8653 7285. Fax: 020-8653 9667. E-mail: english@angloschool.co.uk. 4-week courses 4 times a year. £900. Video and booklet on basic teaching techniques available. 8 trainees maximum on course. PROBLEMS WITH PUPILS A very common problem is to find yourself in front of a class of mixed ability and incompatible aims. How do you plan a lesson that will satisfy a sophisticated business executive whose English is fairly advanced, a delinquent teenager and a housewife crippled by lack of confidence? Marta Eleniak, who taught in Spain, recommends taking a hard line: “Be a bitch at the start. The kids can be very wicked and take advantage of any good nature shown. Squash anyone who is late, shouts, gossips, etc. the first time or it'll never stop. The good classes make you love teaching. The bad make you feel as if you want to go back to filing.” Each level and age group brings its own difficulties. Anyone who has no experience of dealing with young children may find it impossible to grab and hold their attention, let alone teach them any English. A lack of inhibition is very useful for teaching young children who will enjoy sing-songs, nursery rhymes, simple puzzles and games, etc. A firm hand may also be necessary if Aine Fligg's experience in Hong Kong is anything to go by. She was bitten on the ankle by one of her less receptive students. When the headmaster came in and remonstrated (with Aine!) the child bit him on the nose. The brat was then incarcerated in a cupboard, and emerged somewhat subdued. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO TEACH?
Anyone who can speak English fluently and has a lively positive personality has a fighting chance of finding an opening as a teacher somewhere. Geordies, Tasmanians and Alabamans have all been known to be hired as English teachers (not to mention Norwegians and North Africans), though most employers favour native speakers of English without a heavy regional accent.
MOTIVES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH
There are perhaps five main types of individual to be found teaching English from Tarragona to Taipei: the serious career teacher, the student of the prevailing language and culture who teaches in order to fund a longer stay, the long-term traveller who wants to prolong and fund his or her travels, the philanthropic or religious person sponsored by an aid organisation, charity or mission society, and finally the misfit or oddball, perhaps fleeing unhappiness at home.
DIRECTORY OF TRAINING COURSES
Cambridge Certificate (CELTA) Courses
All courses last four weeks full-time unless otherwise stated. The fees quoted (which should be taken merely as a guide) include the CELTA examination fee of £74.70 (~USD120) unless otherwise stated.
ANGLIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT. Tel: 01223 363271. Fax: 01223 352933. E-mail: m.l.baker@anglia.ac.uk. Full-time in July and August only. 9.30am-5pm. Includes 6 hours of teaching practice and 8 hours of observation of experienced teachers. £970 (including examination fee). Accommodation can be arranged in APU halls of residence. Information is supplied about jobs.
ANGLO-CONTINENTAL TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE, 29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA. Tel: 01202 557414, ext 282. Fax: 01202 556156. E-mail: english@anglo-continental.com.Full-time (125 hours) 3 courses per year. £900. Part-time courses over 6 months proposed. Accommodation can be arranged.
ANGLOSCHOOL, 146 Church Road, Upper Norwood, London SE19 2NT. Tel: 020-8653 7285. Fax: 020-8653 9667. E-mail: english@angloschool.co.uk. 4-week courses 4 times a year. £900. Video and booklet on basic teaching techniques available. 8 trainees maximum on course.
PROBLEMS WITH PUPILS
A very common problem is to find yourself in front of a class of mixed ability and incompatible aims. How do you plan a lesson that will satisfy a sophisticated business executive whose English is fairly advanced, a delinquent teenager and a housewife crippled by lack of confidence?

Marta Eleniak, who taught in Spain, recommends taking a hard line:
“Be a bitch at the start. The kids can be very wicked and take advantage of any good nature shown. Squash anyone who is late, shouts, gossips, etc. the first time or it'll never stop. The good classes make you love teaching. The bad make you feel as if you want to go back to filing.”

Each level and age group brings its own difficulties. Anyone who has no experience of dealing with young children may find it impossible to grab and hold their attention, let alone teach them any English. A lack of inhibition is very useful for teaching young children who will enjoy sing-songs, nursery rhymes, simple puzzles and games, etc. A firm hand may also be necessary if Aine Fligg's experience in Hong Kong is anything to go by. She was bitten on the ankle by one of her less receptive students. When the headmaster came in and remonstrated (with Aine!) the child bit him on the nose. The brat was then incarcerated in a cupboard, and emerged somewhat subdued. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.