Do you need a TEFL certification to teach English abroad?

Is TEFL certification necessary?

In a simple answer: Yes, you need to be a trained educator if you are going to provide your students with a quality educational experience, and yes, many schools and governments will require it for employment to teach English abroad or online.

Many people ask this question with the following in mind:

I speak English, I went to college, I must be able to be a good English teacher. What could be so difficult about teaching my own language?

But Here's What You Need to Know

Some schools in some countries may hire you without a TEFL Certification. Those who approach teaching English abroad with this mindset usually have an experience that includes some, if not all, of the following elements:

Difficulty finding employment due to lack of qualifications.

Total unpreparedness for a job that entails teaching 4-6 classes a day and up to 100 students a week who are counting on you and paying for you to teach them effectively.

Employment at a sub-par school with low academic, professional and ethical standards.

Earning lower wages compared to certified teachers.

Questions You Should be Asking:

If I stepped into a classroom tomorrow in Tokyo, Madrid or Santiago, would I have the slightest clue how to provide English language instruction, or even how to communicate with my students?

Would I pay $10, $20 or even $40 an hour to take foreign language classes from somebody who hasn't received any training?

If I owned a language school, would I hire teachers off the street who haven’t been trained to actually teach English as a foreign language?

If I begin a new English teaching job tomorrow in Tokyo, Florence or Rio de Janeiro, will I have the skills to teach English to beginning, intermediate and advanced students for 4-6 classes a day?

Will I know how to design lesson plans, exams and classroom exercises that will actually enable my students to achieve their goal of learning the English language?

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