Asia Travel Tip: Teaching English in Asia

Answer :Before you do anything else, get yourself a teaching qualification. Doing the course will help you immensely when you start to teach and the qualification itself will open lots of doors.

You have the opportunity to teach in a number of countries in Asia. What I'd recommend, given your limited experience, is to go somewhere where you can get a job very easily and build up a bit of confidence in your teaching as well as pad out the C.V.(resume) You can then move on if this place is not to your liking. The place I'm talking about is Thailand. I went there originally to do just what I'm recommending you do and ended up staying eight years. Although I've moved on now and am working in Vietnam I may well go back at some point and don't regret one second of the time I spent in Thailand.

Bangkok is where the work is, although not the only place- check out Daves esl café  for more details along with the Bangkok Post website. Try and take a little cash with you so you don't have to jump at the first job offered and can set yourself up in a nice pad, having a TEFLA means that you definitely shouldn't be looking at anything under 30,000 Baht a month. Once you find your feet you'll be earning more. This is enough to live very comfortably as long as you don't go out drinking till the wee hours every morning.