http://ebcteflcourse.com/ teaching English abroad, how to get jobs – Online only certification explains your paid job prospects with an online only certificate, challenges you will face applying for teaching jobs abroad from your home country and your options for finding teaching jobs abroad from your home country.
3. Paid job prospects online only
On a scale of one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best:
Your job prospects of getting a paid job with a quality language school with an
online only certificate are one, at best two.
Quality language schools expect job candidates to have done teaching practice.
Schools that offer you jobs should be thoroughly investigated as it is very likely
that they are not quality conscious.
If they are not quality conscious, what type of job, pay and conditions are you
walking into?
5. Your challenges
Most schools that hire teachers want to meet a candidate face-to-face before
making a job offer. If you are in your home country and you are asked to attend
an interview in, for example Peru, how are you going to get there?
If you have not done any teaching practice, how are you going to convince
schools that you can teach and manage a classroom better than a candidate who
has attended a course with teaching practice?
How long are you willing to wait at home before you get a job abroad teaching
English? It will probably take a few months to find something.
6. Your challenges
How much are you willing to spend over and above the course fee to travel to the
country, maintain yourself and attend interviews in the hope that you will get
hired?
How much are you willing to spend on a volunteer programme when you find out
that joining one is your only option to get some classroom teaching experience?
Can you accept the real probability of having to work as an unpaid teaching
assistant or classroom helper for several months or even longer?
8. Your options
Hit job portals hoping that you get lucky. You will have to search thoroughly
because most of the jobs require certification that included teaching practice and
at least one hundred classroom hours.
You will be one of hundreds of applicants for each position.
If this fails, your best option is to join a volunteer/internship teaching programme
to get some classroom experience. You’ll pay a few thousand dollars to get your
teaching experience. One example that we found is a two week volunteer
programme in China starting at $2,695.00.