http://www.careerbreak360.com/ <br />Ever wondered what it's like teaching tefl abroad? <br />What things you need to know about teaching abroad in Vietnam? <br />The only way you'll find out is from a teachers doing it <br /><br />Ever wondered what it's like teaching English abroad (TEFL)? <br />What things you need to know about teaching English abroad to help you make an informed decision? <br />The only way you'll find out is to hear it from a teacher abroad whose doing it right now. <br />Euan has been teaching abroad in Saigon Vietnam for a few years now at Shane. <br />Listen to the video to find out what its really like to be a teacher abroad <br />This industry loves it’s acronyms, so we’ve done a quick glossary of some of the more used terms. <br />GLOSSARY OF TERMS <br />ESL <br />ESL stands English as a second language <br />is the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages which is also called ESOL. <br />ESOL <br />ESOL Stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages <br />TEFL <br />TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. There are many different TEFL course, from 40 hours online through to 120 hours attendance. The CELTA is the best known qualification in the world. <br />CELTA <br />The Cambridge CELTA is a four week very intensive TEFL course that gives you practical and academic experience as well as a recognised certificate if you pass. As well as 6 hours teaching practice, you also clock up a lot of hours observing others teaching. This is a demanding course, therefore the pass rate is much lower than many of the shorter courses. It was previously known as CTEFLA and the ‘RSA Certificate’ <br />Trinity Cert TESOL <br />The Trinity Cert TESOL, like the CELTA is a four week very intensive TEFL course that gives you practical and academic experience as well as a recognised certificate if you pass. Like the CELTA, you will get 6 hours of observed teaching practice and many hours observing others teaching. <br />TRANSCRIPT FOR TEACHING ENGLISH ABROAD in Saigon Vietnam <br /><br />I’m the Director of Studies at Shane Vietnam. I’m from Leicester in the UK. <br /><br />I graduated from university and then I perused a career in publishing. I was working as a circulation manager for four and a half years. I was made redundant. I’d gone on a CELTA course, well it’s actually it a TESOL course. After graduating the company gave us a number of sort of websites to check out. I went to one, had a look around. I was trying to decide between Taiwan, Korea, Japan. <br /><br />So I went to Taiwan and I worked there for two years. They had a training scheme there where we were actually were able to train new teachers and that just opened up a lot of opportunities for me to develop my career in ESL. <br /><br />The best thing about living and working abroad is, well there’s lots of great things so firstly you get a real insight to the country the culture of the people.
