Rate Schools with TEFL Watch

Rate this School is an important feature of TEFL Watch, it allows you to rate schools on a scale of 1 to 5. Schools are all tagged with name and location search tags, making it easy for you to dish the dirt, should you need to.
One of the things I like best about TEFL Watch is [...]

Why Start a Teacher Forum?

‘Why did you start your own English teachers forum?’ I’m often asked. Quite simply, I used to be a member of Dave’s ESL Cafe job discussion forums many, many moons ago. I stopped using the site when it became practically impossible to either talk about jobs or have any sort of worthwhile discussion there. To [...]

All that Glitters is not Gold: Istanbul TEFL

Istanbul is a truly great place to live but, just like anywhere else these days, you’ve got to be really careful before accepting an English teaching job here. Ashley Perks has written a really nice checklist of things that anyone thinking of teaching in Turkey should consider:
All that glitters is not goldIf you are a [...]

Five jobs that let you see the world

The CNN website recently published a list of five jobs that are great for getting out there and seeing the world.Finding a career that allows you to travel is not always an easy task, but if you’re a college grad looking to make an adventure of your gap year, a professional looking for a change [...]

Teaching English in Cambodia & the Sex Industry

Something that’s often on my mind is the level of social responsibility that we should feel while living and working in our adopted countries. I admit that I sometimes feel relieved to have been freed from my duties to participate in a home country democracy that I don’t feel is working particularly well, but at [...]

Job Security by TEFL Daddy

In an article in the upcoming first issue of the ELT World journal, I’ll be highlighting how the poor treatment of ELT professionals around the world is having a stifling effect on those in the profession.

Image from the TEFL Daddy website
So, what can we do with regard to job security? Think carefully before taking [...]

The Cost of Living & Japanese Words by Alex Case

Japanese cost of living
Many of us like to think about the cost of living when deciding to up and move to a foreign country. As we tend to do this a lot more than most of the human race, it’s an issue close to our hearts. However, as Alex Case notes on his TEFLTastic blog, [...]

Bad Teaching Jobs at the TEFL Blacklist

TEFLTrader has been busy over on the forums, keeping us up to date on the progress of the TEFL Blacklist and the campaign to expose the schools that are treating employees badly around the world, and example being bad TEFL jobs in Italy.
Thanks to all parties involved in continuing this effort to inform would be [...]

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