Teaching English As A Second Language in the Philippines
January 21, 2009
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Posted by dan1658
I am again asking for some help from the experts here on My Move to the Philippines and ask that you comment or email me at dan1658@yahoo.com for your input. I will use the input and personal experience on this subject to make a major decision on what I want to do while living in the Philippines.
I have been researching different programs on teaching ESL in the Philippines. I understand there is a need for teaching this subject to Korean students who are coming to the Philippines to learn English as well as workers in the many call centers.
It seems the programs offered here fall into two types. One type is just basically a job finding service who feels that since someone grows up in the US that they will know how to teach someone to speak English. Another type has a curriculum or set of couses that lead to a certification in teaching ESL plus they have job placement in the country of choice. Of course, I’m leaning towards the second type and one in particular which teaches a curriculum for certification of ESL for children and one for ESL for business. They have a course for expert ESL instructor which gives certification in both.
Like I stated at the beginning of the post I am looking for your input and experiences and how you feel I should go with this. I was a teacher about 15 years ago while in the military and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I always thought that when corporate America was done with me I would switch to teaching. Again I plan on semi-retiring when I’m in the Philippines and I have prepared for this financially and basically am looking for something to do to keep busy and productive while also doing my online businesses. In other words, not something I would want to do 8-10 hours a day five days a week. So I will be awaiting the input from the experts.
Categories: Philippines General
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Tags: esl, esl in the philippines, Moving to Philippines, teaching english as a second language in the philippine
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Hi Dan, regarding your plan you need to consider two things first,
1. are you going to teach in private school or companies offering this type of service?
2. or will you offer your services on freelance basis or start your own tutorial (homebase)but remember, doing both will require you some particular permits…
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See ya,
Juliet
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Hi Juliet
In answer to your question I plan on doing both. I plan on using the school for training then certification and go on a couple of their jobs. Then after establishing myself I plan on trying the freelance. Also I would think that this company would have the permits necessary for me.
You can also try applying at call centers as an English communication trainor initially then if things go well you can try moving up to middle management positions of which there is also a shortage since a lot of the locals are eventually lured by much higher pay in neighboring Asian call centers. A lot of foreigners actually had to be recruited from overseas specifically for this purposes most notably from India which has the biggest outsourcing industry in the world. Anyway, good luck on your plans and I hope you enjoy your stay in our country.