| Teaching English is a huge worldwide industry. It | | | | another. |
| doesn't require factories or much in the way of | | | | So even if your formal experience as an English |
| equipment, but there are millions upon millions of people | | | | teacher is nonexistent, do explore the possibilities |
| currently studying English. They live and study in every | | | | further. Even if you haven't really taught children or |
| country on the planet. If you are interested in an | | | | foreigners English, you have probably taught something |
| adventuresome life of travel, where you can earn your | | | | to someone at some point in your life! Most likely, you |
| way, then consider a career or at least a stint in | | | | may have seen them use what you taught them. You |
| Teaching English as a Foreign Language, typically | | | | might have shown someone else how to do |
| abbreviated to TEFL. | | | | something with their hands, whether crocheting or |
| Why is there such a large global demand for teachers | | | | pulling a battery out from under the hood of a car. |
| of English? There are several reasons. English is the | | | | There are a wide variety of quite inexpensive training |
| main global language, the main way that people from | | | | courses that you can take, at many places in the |
| various countries can communicate with each other. | | | | world, to prepare you to teach English. Doing such a |
| Science, technology, the internet, global business -- all | | | | course will greatly increase your choice of positions. |
| use English to a very large degree. So it's no wonder | | | | Some of the schools even guarantee you a job in their |
| that people everywhere want to learn it. | | | | country after you pass their course. |
| You have no experience teaching English? You may | | | | In general, people who teach English around the world |
| find that it draws naturally on things you have already | | | | are not scholarly sorts. They like people, they like to |
| done. Assuming that you are a native speaker of | | | | travel, and they want to do a good job in their teaching |
| English or completely at home in the language, you can | | | | sessions. They are of a practical bent. They try what |
| probably teach it. We all do it on an ongoing basis with | | | | works and what doesn't with their particular students, |
| children, without even thinking about it. Kids ask us | | | | and modify it as needed. There are many resources |
| what words mean and we tell them. If you have | | | | online to help you learn how to create and present |
| friends who don't speak much English, you may have | | | | lessons. |
| helped them learn some phrases at one time or | | | | |