Teaching English Overseas Can Be A Smart Career Move
Demand is growing in schools overseas for people to teach conversational American to foreign students of all ages. Candidates don’t have to be teachers by profession — although it helps to have a college degree and some training in Teaching English as a Second Language, or TESL. Rather, the ideal instructor is adventurous, adaptable and interested in exotic climes — mainly in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Jobs can be as short as a summer session or as long as a school year. The work itself can be challenging. Classroom discipline and student attitudes vary widely. Some teachers have arrived at their destination only to find that employment promises were misleading. Accommodations and amenities, of course, are often vastly different from home.
