Hey everyone,
I'm finishing my 198 Hour Level 5 TEFL Course https://www.tefl.org/en/courses/ and now I'm gearing up to look for work in Cambodia. For me, my reasons are simple. For one, I enjoy teaching. However, I also can't find work at home (United Kingdom) that is really meaningful and pays decently. The thought of returning back to a Asda shop makes me sick, especially since I worked so hard to get a degree.
Anyway, I was wondering , what led you to pick TEFL over another career?
Thank you.
Lucas
why you become a teacher?
Plenty of pretty Filipinas teaching around here.
I've heard that was some sort of incentive for some.
I've heard that was some sort of incentive for some.
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Twas the only work available at the time ( 20 years ago ), and it paid better then than it does now.
PS, your grammar n punctuation is shit.
PS, your grammar n punctuation is shit.
k440, something to do when you're pissed.
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My first tour of duty as a teacher was in South Korea and the decision was purely motivated by cold hard cash. In those days there was easy money there, not quite Saudi levels but if you could hustle you could bank big.
Next stop was Vietnam and although not quite as much cash as South Korea it was definitely more interesting. I worked for an Irish guy named Fonzie, who had opened up ESL schools in all the former/current communist countries. He will open the first privately owned school in North Korea and his connections allowed me to get fairly unrestricted travel there 10 years ago.
I had some really interesting students - government officials (including those at Ho Chi Minh University, which is where party members must study Marx and Hegel) embassy staff (including Libya, which drew the attention of the US Embassy) and staff from large Vietnamese State owned companies.
I learned so much about the American War from these students that I decided to focus my Masters on the rise of Communism in South East Asia.
Although I prefer teaching adults, the teenage Cambodians were some of my favorite students - so much fun and cheeky, which I like! But the low pay and rapid decline of working conditions at Cambodia's ''best' language school made me finally hang up my board marker.
After 6 years of not teaching I actually missed it and so now do a few hours a week of online IELTS prep.
In closing, ESL teaching was much more fun when it was run by the gay mafia.
Next stop was Vietnam and although not quite as much cash as South Korea it was definitely more interesting. I worked for an Irish guy named Fonzie, who had opened up ESL schools in all the former/current communist countries. He will open the first privately owned school in North Korea and his connections allowed me to get fairly unrestricted travel there 10 years ago.
I had some really interesting students - government officials (including those at Ho Chi Minh University, which is where party members must study Marx and Hegel) embassy staff (including Libya, which drew the attention of the US Embassy) and staff from large Vietnamese State owned companies.
I learned so much about the American War from these students that I decided to focus my Masters on the rise of Communism in South East Asia.
Although I prefer teaching adults, the teenage Cambodians were some of my favorite students - so much fun and cheeky, which I like! But the low pay and rapid decline of working conditions at Cambodia's ''best' language school made me finally hang up my board marker.
After 6 years of not teaching I actually missed it and so now do a few hours a week of online IELTS prep.
In closing, ESL teaching was much more fun when it was run by the gay mafia.
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Interesting post. Especially that bit about Hagel.Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:08 amMy first tour of duty as a teacher was in South Korea and the decision was purely motivated by cold hard cash. In those days there was easy money there, not quite Saudi levels but if you could hustle you could bank big.
Next stop was Vietnam and although not quite as much cash as South Korea it was definitely more interesting. I worked for an Irish guy named Fonzie, who had opened up ESL schools in all the former/current communist countries. He will open the first privately owned school in North Korea and his connections allowed me to get fairly unrestricted travel there 10 years ago.
I had some really interesting students - government officials (including those at Ho Chi Minh University, which is where party members must study Marx and Hegel) embassy staff (including Libya, which drew the attention of the US Embassy) and staff from large Vietnamese State owned companies.
I learned so much about the American War from these students that I decided to focus my Masters on the rise of Communism in South East Asia.
Although I prefer teaching adults, the teenage Cambodians were some of my favorite students - so much fun and cheeky, which I like! But the low pay and rapid decline of working conditions at Cambodia's ''best' language school made me finally hang up my board marker.
After 6 years of not teaching I actually missed it and so now do a few hours a week of online IELTS prep.
In closing, ESL teaching was much more fun when it was run by the gay mafia.
Who or what were the gay mafia?
Up the workers!
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I didn't want to live in England any more and it seemed like the easiest way to make a living in many different countries. As a bonus, and after getting over the ego thing of 'those who can do, those who cant teach, those who cant teach teach TEFL' and 'I am a fucking tefler ffs' , I have actually come to enjoy the job. I also no longer teach TEFL but teach A Level. Its fine. I don't wake up in the morning and contemplate suicide whilst crammed into a tube train, its not stressful at all and I enjoy having a laugh and a joke with my students. I am happy and will do it until I retire.
Is there any teacher here familiar with khan academy or using it in an academic environment?
It's a free online resource that you can use as a teacher or a a parent.
Here's its founder talking about it.
Skip the first 90 seconds if you're impatient.
If you watch, don't miss the last few minutes
It's a free online resource that you can use as a teacher or a a parent.
Here's its founder talking about it.
Skip the first 90 seconds if you're impatient.
If you watch, don't miss the last few minutes
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