Student wanting to teach English abroad in gap year or in summer.Is a 100-hour online TEFL course enough?
I'm 18, living in the UK although originally foreign. I have some teaching experience doing one-to-one classes of English, Spanish and Slovak to foreigners. I want to travel in summer or in a gap year before starting university and teach English. I'm looking for a TEFL course that would enable me to do it. Please note, I have no degree, I haven't started university yet. I would be thinking about going to Spain / South America (Peru / Chile / Colombia) / Portugal / Germany / Switzerland / Slovakia. Would I be able to get a summer or gap year job in these countries if I do a 100-hour online TEFL course? Which course do u suggest that I do? Thanks.
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It's very hard to get work without a degree as a degree + tefl cert are the usual basic requirements. Likewise, a summer job is usually hard to find as the vacancies are few and they're often filled by teachers who have been laid off for the summer from their school. If you want to take a gap year off teaching English there are possibilities but please be very careful about who you go with as there are lots of scam artists out there when it comes to volunteering. If you want to teach without a degree then there are a few possibilities. You could go to: * China - the demand here is so great they often overlook the need for a degree. * Indonesia * Ecuador * Mongolia * Czech republic (although you will need a passport from an EU member state to teach here) But you will most likely have to be in the country yourself to get work. Your best bet if you want TEFL as a career is to get your degree. And then a TEFL certificate. Almost any decent cert will be fine and can be taken either in-house or online at your own pace which is a much cheaper option (see http://icalweb.com).
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