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mr.cheeks · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Phnom Penh

Hi, ive been teaching English in Cambodia for around a year, and i'm looking at moving on.
I don't have a degree (i'm educated to GCSE A standard) and i don't have any certificates as such.
But i do have a years worth of experience.

Could anybody suggest any other countries where it may be quite easy to find work without these things?

Thanks a lot.....

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

China.

tttompatz

mr.cheeks · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Phnom Penh

Thanks for that, so as far as the tefl's are concerned, would an online course suffice?
And which countries in particular when you say central/south America would you reccomend?

Thanks again.....

MrMrLuckyKhan · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject:

I picked up my first TEFL job in Indonesia while on vacation. I didn't have my degree with me, and told them I could get it shipped within a few days from home (the States) if they needed it, and they said not to worry about it. Many of the teachers there work with no quals/experience at all. With a year of experience u'll be a better 'catch' than some other rookie teachers there.

As Ttom said, you technically need a tefl cert and possibly a degree, BUT the term 'LEGAL' has a different meaning in Asia than it does in the West. All the teachers I knew in Indonesia that were working without the quals had LEGAL work visas/KITAS. The school pays that for you there.

I've said this before, but you're 'illegally working legally.'

bulgogiboy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 803

Do a CELTA/Trinity Cert TESOL, and look at it as investment.

Don't do an online TEFL course, as for the most part employers think very little of them.

AdrianG4 · Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 160 Location: Harbin, China

Probably China -- definitely China. Seriously, though -- do a 30 day on site TESL course.

If you've got money ..

CELTA
TRINITY
SIT

Moderately cheap priced course providers with world wide centres and a level of name brand (not on the name brand level of the three above though)

INTESOL World Wide
ITTO
I to I
TEFL International (it might have the most centres)

MrMrLuckyKhan · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:45 am Post subject:

mr.cheeks · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Phnom Penh

to be honest, the cash situation isn't looking as healthy as i'd like it to... To be honest, the school i'm at now in Cambodia didn't even ask to see any credentials..... which was fine by me.

So, if i just bowled up in China, with say $2000 in my pocket, what do you think my chances are of getting some form of qualification/certificate and work??

And where in China would you's reccomend exactly?

Thanks again, i sincerely appreciate your feedback.

Wink

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

2000 USD is a good chunk of change in China, but if you just show up......

It's best to have SOME direction when you get here and to have enough to make an escape if need be.

MrMrLuckyKhan · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:05 pm Post subject:

mr.cheeks · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Phnom Penh

I'm on just over a grand a month at the minute, tax-free/ paid holidays etc... just had enough of all the mental shit to be honest, the corruption, the lexus driving arseholes etc....

bulgogiboy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 803

mozzar · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 339 Location: France

bdbarnett1 · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:09 pm Post subject:

Don't you think you owe it to yourself and your students to at least get a B.A.?