Basics to Getting Started Teaching ESL

When I was laid off from work in Telecommunications.station.
I considered teaching overseas. Since I am a native3) University degree
English speaker. The answer seemed obvious. TeachYou need to also provide original documentation of a
English.university degree. As an aside for American's. In some
Searching online raised many, many red flags. All itparts of the world there are High Schools that are
seemed was that this overwhelming information wasknown as Colleges. You need to be careful to not be
a ploy to help me part ways from my hard earneddisqualified for this reason.
money.When you have all of your documentation in order you
While my wife and I were traveling in Vietnam, wewill be able to find work teaching ESL.
visited with a principle at a College in Ho Chi Minh City.I received my CELTA ceriification because that is
He gave me a guidance as to what would be requiredwhat my principle friend had. I also took the course
to teach in Vietnam.here in Vietnam. The course is given all over the world.
What I needed was:I could have taken it in Houston Texas, USA, but it was
1) English as a Second Language (ESL) certification.more expensive and the living expenses for one
He said that I needed either a TEFL Certificationmonth was much higher than staying with my
University of Cambridge's CELTA and Trinity Collegebrother-in-law in Ho Chi Minh City.
London's CertTESOL. These two courses both haveNow all you have to do is to be able to find and
120+ hours with 6+ hours supervised teaching.separate the qualify good and bad teaching jobs when
2) Clean police recordyou are in your search. Once you understand how to
To teach in Vietnam you need to providesearch for these positions and understand the pay
documentation of a clean police record from wherescales, you can search for decent positions.
you live. This can be obtained from your local police