TEFL Around The World: July Bloggers
July 28, 2008 by Louis
Filed under TEFL Around The World
TEFLers around the world is a chance to highlight blogs by TEFLers around the world. It’s a chance to get insight into countries that you may not have thought about teaching English in, but now you can read the writings and musings of teachers trying to make a go of it in a foreign country.
Destination TEFL: Paraguay
July 21, 2008 by Louis
Filed under Destination TEFL, Latin America, Paraguay, Regional Information
Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America sandwiched between Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. It’s notorious for its smuggling, fake good and lawlessness around Ciudad del Este. It’s not known as a TEFL Destination. Not very many adventurous English teachers decide to move down to Paraguay to teach English, but after researching this, I’m rather surprised they aren’t.
Realities Of A TEFL Course
July 14, 2008 by Louis
Filed under TEFL Courses
Many TEFL course providers evoke images of carefree travel, adventure and exploration into their advertising and entice many young college leavers to sign up for a TEFL course and sign up for adventure. The Guardian has a cautionary tale about one adventure minded school leavers who took the plunge and found out that there is more to adventure in a TEFL career. Read more
How Qualified Are Teachers In Korea?
July 7, 2008 by Louis
Filed under Asia, Korea, Regional Information, TEFL News
The Korea Times is reporting that 53% of Foreign teachers in Korean elementary and secondary schools do not have TEFL certificates. That’s what their articles says, but that not what their headline says. Their headlines is 53% of Foreign Tutors Lack Teaching Degrees. Whatever happened to truth in headlines?
Destination TEFL: Peru
July 1, 2008 by Louis
Filed under Destination TEFL, Latin America, Peru, Regional Information
This is literally everything you must know about teaching in Peru. I thank Sharon de Hinojosa of The LA TEFL Job List and The Ultimate Peru List for allowing us to reprint this so that you can get as much information as possible on this interesting destination.