How Hard Is It To Teach English Abroad?
How hard teaching English abroad is really depends on you and what you encounter. Here I’ll share with you some of the difficulties and experiences that I and other teachers encountered while teaching abroad in Asia: China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
As far as starting goes it’s not that hard to get a job teaching English abroad since it’s not that competitive of a market in many countries. English is in demand around the world. Sure some schools can be harder to get into, but it’s an industry that is growing and that has a high turnover rate. Most teachers only do it for a year or two.
Each country and each school can have different requirements. But for the most part…
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Dream teaching job abroad is now a living nightmare
After Krugersdorper, Jasen Matthee had matriculated from Krugersdorp High School in 2010, he started pursuing a career in diesel engineering. After several years of working in the industry, he realized that it was not taking him anywhere in life. His visit to a friend in Vietnam changed his life forever. “A friend, who I could call my sister, invited me to visit her halfway across the world in Vietnam. It was a difficult decision for me to make as I had never travelled abroad before, and I was financially unstable. However, for the first time, I finally had the chance to experience something I always dreamt of doing,” Jasen said.
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Is Teaching English Abroad Hard?
Q: Is teaching English abroad hard?
Simple A: Yes.
Complete A: Yes, but it’s worth it.
When I was offered my first position teaching English abroad, I (quite naively) didn’t get too nervous. After all, I spoke English as easily as I ordered breakfast tacos: how difficult could it be to impart knowledge so ingrained in your everyday brain?
Uhm… yeah. No. Because let me tell you a secret about teaching English: the language is the least of your focus. Next to disciplining tough dudes, getting kids’ attention, inspiring conversation, trying to make lessons relevant to everyday life, setting the line between “teacher” and “friend”, coming up with fun classroom games, and attempting to figure out just what you are expected to impart is gonna take a lot more time than explaining grammar rules or expanding vocabulary. And, actually, all that stuff is a lot more important than straightening out ABC’s.
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