A Diverse Range of Teaching Opportunities
Our TEFL graduates are finding English positions all over Thailand; it seems that Asia in general is crying out for people to fill this ever expanding gap in the market. The great benefit for our students is freedom; they have the freedom to change who they teach, where they teach and what they teach. Once you have some teaching experience, backed up with a TEFL certificate, pretty much the whole of Asia opens up to you.
Imagine if you will a country that relies heavily on its people’s ability to speak English and yet only a handful of natives actually speak it fluently. This is the current situation in Asia and this is where the gap in the market comes from. Businesses all over Asia need to converse internationally in English and to take Thailand as an example, they rely heavily on the tourist trade were communicating in English is a necessity for most of the hotels, restaurants, bars, transportation services, tour operators, hospitals… the list goes on - thus the demand for people to teach English. Business owners, parents and Thais looking to broaden their job opportunities realize the importance of learning English and a teacher in Asia is treated with the upmost respect.
With the teaching English job market at a high, students taking the TEFL course have more options than ever before in choosing what kind of teaching they would like to become involved in. The more traditional option, and probably the one with the greatest number of vacancies, is to teach at a school and both government and international schools are always on the look out for new English teaching staff. If you choose the route less travelled by, but one which still has plenty of opportunities, you might want to consider teaching to a different audience and working in a hotel. The teaching methodology is much the same but the interaction with the students is very different. Business English is yet another avenue you could explore, and then there is private tuition, were you have the option to design your own timetable. The great thing is that once you have taken all those fantastic experiences and memories on board from one particular place, you’re free to move on to the next exciting teaching escapade.
