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Have years of teaching experience? Meet Julie!
Originally I wasn’t sure whether I needed to take a course to
teach overseas. My career spans 26 years of teaching. I decided to pursue
my dream of teaching abroad, and from research and word of mouth I discovered
that it was necessary and advantageous to be certified in TESOL training.
Taking the course gave me the contacts, skills, resources, web sites
and essential basics to getting started; not to mention the profiles
which are job contacts to all over the world!
After taking the course I wrote away to these contacts and have just completed a month’s wonderful teaching in Cataluna, Spain! It was just the most fantastic experience and I can’t wait to go to the next place. While I was away the director organised a party with other teachers and directors and nearly every one of them wanted to know what my experience was with teaching. I was confident in saying I had a TESOL certificate as well as my normal teaching qualifications. I was given practical experience in drills and chants, lesson planning where you provide teacher student talking time into 20/80% and as well as that the grammar ideas and the very necessary grammar training that you will definitely have to teach which are all part of the course requirements.
I have achieved the beginning of my dream and will continue. I still have the profiles and contacts for next time thanks to the Teach International TESOL course I took. Go for it! Take the course and start teaching overseas like I did!
