Teaching without a degree???

by **Shylo_88** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:03 pm

Myself and my partner are looking to teach in Cambodia with CELTA. Neither of us have any previous teaching experience. Is this sufficient to teach in Cambodia???

Is it possible to teach with just CELTA and no degree??

Thanks

by **cambod** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:35 pm

Shylo_88 wrote:Myself and my partner are looking to teach in Cambodia with CELTA. Neither of us have any previous teaching experience. Is this sufficient to teach in Cambodia???

Is it possible to teach with just CELTA and no degree??

Thanks

You can, but u risk getting the death penalty if caught. Good luck. And welcome.

by **matty** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:48 pm

cambod wrote:
Shylo_88 wrote:Myself and my partner are looking to teach in Cambodia with CELTA. Neither of us have any previous teaching experience. Is this sufficient to teach in Cambodia???

Is it possible to teach with just CELTA and no degree??

Thanks

You can, but u risk getting the death penalty if caught. Good luck. And welcome.

Cambod is kind of stretching things. It is usually just a couple years in prison. They may even let you off with a simple deportation. You should just lie and say you have one, but then if you get caught, it really is the death penalty.

by **andyinasia** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:23 pm

Myself and my partner

by **gavinmac** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:30 pm

andyinasia wrote:
Myself and my partner

"Neither of us have any previous teaching experience" isn't right either. So those are two grammar errors in the first two sentences of the first post.

I'd say that makes him or her totally qualified to teach English in Cambodia.

by **andyinasia** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:33 pm

Behave yourself!!!!

by **cambod** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:05 pm

gavinmac wrote:...

I'd say that makes him or her totally qualified to teach English in Cambodia.

I'd agree ourselves.

by **Lucky Lucan** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:30 am

Shylo_88 wrote:Myself and my partner are looking to teach in Cambodia with CELTA. Neither of us have any previous teaching experience. Is this sufficient to teach in Cambodia???

Is it possible to teach with just CELTA and no degree??

Thanks

Yeah, you can look forward to scraping by on bottom-of-the-barrel salaries that haven't changed for a decade until you almost starve to death and realize that the market is clogged.

by **vladimir** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:17 am

You might try ACE, the Temple of Celta.
Aussie guy I know with a doctorate was told he needed a CELTA, LOL.

by **Bitteeinbit** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:13 am

I can second that, people who are extremely qualified (either with experience or teaching degrees) get turned down from there because they don't have a CELTA. The official motto of ACE seems to be: "ALL HAIL THE CELTA!"

by **KL&fool** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:51 pm

vladimir wrote:You might try ACE, the Temple of Celta.
Aussie guy I know with a doctorate was told he needed a CELTA, LOL.

So he should have been. Just because he has a PhD doesn't mean he can teach EFL. It's a different set of skills involved. The PhD bloke would probably have spoken too fast, used too much idiomatic language and been unable to effectively explain the rudiments of how the English language operates.

Point taken, though, that ACE think they are the bees' knees. They need taking down a peg or two. We need the Brutish Council here! :!:

by **pedros** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:59 pm

A white, English student teacher, working for the summer, asked me 'What's a noun' today. Anything is possible.

by **Uncle Monty** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:30 pm

pedros wrote:A white, English student teacher, working for the summer, asked me 'What's a noun' today. Anything is possible.

Welcome to the world of bottom market schools.

by **youngwill100** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:58 am

gavinmac wrote:"Neither of us have any previous teaching experience" isn't right either.

Perhaps this is slightly clumsy, but just to enlighten me, what is grammatically wrong with this sentence?

by **KL&fool** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:21 am

youngwill100 wrote:
gavinmac wrote:"Neither of us have any previous teaching experience" isn't right either.

Perhaps this is slightly clumsy, but just to enlighten me, what is grammatically wrong with this sentence?

Strictly speaking, the correct form should be "Neither of us has..." but I don't think it really matters, these days. Several of these rules are regarded as cumbersome and are dying out.