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schminken · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

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Do you have a degree?
Yes, a BA

What was your Major?
German/Linguistics

CELTA or ESL certificate?
No

Do you have a masters?
Yes, German Studies/Applied Linguistics

How did you get into the field?
I always wanted to do this from the time I was a kid. I love languages and teaching. I like taking languages apart and putting them back together again. Unlike some of you, I have no real interest teaching English outside of Europe. I also teach university level German in the States. Teaching in a German-speaking country combines both of my academic interests:)

misterkodak · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

Do you have a degree?
Yes, a BA

What was your Major?
Germanistics/History

CELTA or ESL certificate?
TEFL

Do you have a masters?
No, I started a master's in History and have yet to finish. I realize now that its not what I want.

How did you get into the field?
I enjoy living abroad (4 years USAF). I visited an exgirlfriend scored a job doing external relations in a factory in Turkey. After the earthquake, I got laid off and sort of fell into teaching accidentally.

MELEE · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

I have a BA in Political Science, Spanish and Latin American Studies (yes, three majors, I used to be an over achiever).

I have a TEFL cert.

I have the IH Diploma of Educational Mangement (ELT).

I got into this field because I was looking for a way to increase my foriegn language skills and get more overseas living experience before pursing a masters in International Education Administration so that I could work in Study Abroad programs, but I got into this and liked it, so for now, I've decided not to pursue that path....

I've been doing this for 8 years, with no signs of burn out thus far.

Roger,
I'm also curious as to where secondary education is equivalent to a B.A. As far as I know Baccualoriate and Bachelor's are not the same thing and in the US a BA is tertiary education. The reason why I'm curious is that I hire English speakers from all over the world, so I need to know about different educational systems so that I can fairly evaluate my applicants. Thanks.

Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject:

Sorry Lanza-Armonia

But I take the prize for being on the bottom of the "food chain"

worth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 25

Hi,
BA - English (Creative Writing)
MA - MIM (Masters of International Management)- like an MBA in International Management

ESL Training - TESL Cert

How did you get involved in ESL? Years ago, I was in Asia, ran out of money, and didn't want to go home. Taiwan seemed a better option. Then I got out of it for a long time, decided that I was happiest teaching and went back to it.[/img][/url][/code]

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Clarification:
Due to multiple requests to explain myself, i hasten to say I made a mistake: There is no such a thing as an "equivalent" of the B.A.!
My secondary level degree is a Baccalaureate degree, which allows me to enter a tertiary-level institution of learning such as an university; colleges are secondary-level in those countries where a Baccalaureate is issued upon passing the school at age 19-20.

Marcoregano · Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 872 Location: Hong Kong

Well...as I've got time on my hands today:

BA - Geography/History

MSc - European Urban Conservation (don't ask! not very useful for jobs)

MEd TESOL (just completed)

Other TEFL quals - Trinity TESOL Certificate

How did I get into this? At age 34. I was never ambitious and never had a clear direction career-wise, nor did I ever care about a 'career' as such. With that attitude it's difficult to make a decent living in small-town England. I had a choice of returning to London and an invisible suburban life or doing something different - this, in other words. Plus, I like travel and after a few years in the UK was starting to miss it. I went to Korea about 6 years ago, now in HK, no regrets really.

bud · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

JosephP · Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 445

BA in Liberal Arts (a real rudderless qualification) in 1999 through a distance learning programme.
Cert? RSA CTEFLA (1993 vesion of the CELTA)
Masters? Nope
Experience? Gobs. Started doing this thing called "English teaching" in Taiwan back in 1990 and I had no qualification other than being a native speaker (my job before landing in the R.O.C was truck driver in San Francisco). Since then I have taught in Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Hawaii. Now, many years later, and a tad more qualified, I am relief teaching at private language schools here in Christchurch, New Zealand.

foster · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 485 Location: Honkers, SARS

B.Ed in French Immersion Education
No TEFL, etc...
6 years teaching in Southern Saskatchewan schools
2 years in Japan
.5 year in Hong Kong

CarpeDiem · Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Singapore

BA - English Language

CELTA

Planning a masters in 2 years' time.....maybe....

Was previously working for a government division, then kind of stumbled into the world of TEFL....

bud · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Sigh. Yeah, my dream of teaching in South America may remain just that--a dream--for several years, until I get those debts paid off...

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bud · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 13