| When you start out teaching English as a foreign | | | | teachers, being responsible for selecting and ordering |
| language, you may take the route of having an | | | | materials to be used in classes, and similar tasks. |
| adventure for a year or more in another country. | | | | If you have a college degree of some sort, you might |
| Some people make a practice of teaching in a variety | | | | be interested in the administrative positions of |
| of places. For example, teachers who know Spanish | | | | Assistant Director of Studies, often abbreviated ADoS, |
| (or want to learn it) might teach English for a while in | | | | and Director of studies or DoS. You would earn more |
| Mexico, then roam to Chile, Costa Rica, or other | | | | but it would be managerial work, not the teaching you |
| Spanish-speaking countries. | | | | began with. |
| For many people, teaching English abroad is just | | | | If those jobs don't appeal, there are a variety of other |
| something they do for a while. Then they go back to a | | | | jobs that you could explore. You could start your own |
| completely different career at home. | | | | school. Some other things include: being the official |
| But others get bitten by the bug of this kind of work, | | | | examiner for the exams that the English students must |
| and they want to continue working in the general field | | | | take, being a teacher trainer, writing lesson materials, |
| of teaching English as a second language. What | | | | being a home stay provider (putting students up in your |
| options would you have if this happened to you? | | | | home, often for vacation times, and tutoring them), and |
| There are quite a few possibilities. Here are a few. | | | | more. With the internet taking an increasing role in the |
| Say that you have been teaching for two or three | | | | teaching of English as a foreign language, there are |
| years and have obtained your TEFL certificate, which | | | | some teaching jobs where you are at home |
| indicates that you have studied how to teach English | | | | (wherever that is) and you connect online with your |
| as a Foreign Language for at least 100 hours. You | | | | students, who may be from many parts of the world. |
| might then become a senior teacher. Depending on | | | | No doubt the internet will change the face of TEFL in |
| how the school you worked at had things set up, this | | | | ways we can't see yet, but there will always be lots |
| would include supervising and helping beginning | | | | of jobs of varying types. |