Teaching English Abroad

[jimmy olsen]

After my awesome trip through the Carribean I have the urge to see the world and I've started to wonder about teaching English abroad. I think a couple of people here have done that. What did you think of the experience?

All others are welcome to lay down bets on all the horrible things that could happen to me in the unlikely event I follow through with this.

[Caliga]

Isn't that usually done by folks who don't have education degrees?

I can understand the appeal, but I would suggest getting into the public school system ASAP so you can milk the gubmint, never get fired no matter what you do (short of raping someone), and then retire at 55.

[jimmy olsen]

Isn't that usually done by folks who don't have education degrees?

Yeah, but if you have one I hear it's very easy to get a decent job in a 1st world country.

I'd like to do something interesting before I get to old.

[Lucidor]

Wasn't Disturbed Prevert doing something along those lines?

[Ed Anger]

All others are welcome to lay down bets on all the horrible things that could happen to me

5 quatloos on being lynched after showing an alt-history map to a class.

[Zanza]

Are there any American government schools abroad? We have those in the major cities of the world and state-employed teachers can teach there for a couple of years getting their usual salary and benefits etc. and afterwards returning into a safe job at home.

[Caliga]

Wasn't Disturbed Prevert doing something along those lines?

Not sure about him, but Buddha definitely did teach abroad in Japan, as is Pitiful Pathos right now (in Korea?) IIRC.

I also have an  ex-girlfriend who has taught English abroad in Japan and Turkey, and was teaching ESL at University of Maryland until she got laid off last month.

[Caliga]

Are there any American government schools abroad? We have those in the major cities of the world and you can teach there for a couple of years getting your usual salary and benefits etc. and afterwards returning into a safe job at home.

Hey, that's a great idea. 

[DisturbedPervert]

Isn't that usually done by folks who don't have education degrees?

With an education degree he could teach at an international/American school and make quite a lot of money, not just do esl.

[Tamas]

Come to Hungary.

Hang your US passport on your neck, and enjoy the girls flocking in.

[Grey Fox]

How unamerican of you.

You do know that all those countries are foreign?

[Valmy]

Come to Hungary.

Hang your US passport on your neck, and enjoy the girls flocking in.

We need to get you a US passport.

[DisturbedPervert]

Hang your US passport on your neck, and enjoy the girls flocking in.

Them, or the gypsies.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I lived and worked in Tokyo for 3 years. DP does some kinda work in Thailand, but I'm not sure it's ESL. St Jaba is in Korea... Isn't someone in China now to?

It's a great experience that I reccomend to anyone. It is however not easy. I did not have an education degree either. Having one likely will get you a cushier gig. heck a HS Home Ec teacher I know just got hired in England because they need to import people to teach cooking.

[Caliga]

heck a HS Home Ec teacher I know just got hired in England because they need to import people to teach cooking.

FINALLY.  Why couldn't they have learned to cook prior to 2002 when I visited London?