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My answer to: Can you teach with just a TEFL?
My answer to: Can you teach with just aĀ TEFL?
Can you teach with just a TEFL?
Enna Morgan, International English/ ESL Instructor and Education Counsellor for 8 years. Answered 8h ago
Thanks for the A2A, Laura.
Definitely!
The short answer: You can teach with absolutely no credentials.
The long answer will depend on where you want to teach, what you are teaching, who you are, what you look like, and a myriad variables.
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You hear a passing conversation
While teaching some adult students and discussing whatās necessary to put on a resume/CV. One is an older gentleman researcher; the other is a younger doctor.
Researcher: I think itās important for gender to be on a CV.
Doctor: ...Why?
Researcher: Well, if you hire too many women itās not good, right? I donāt want to discriminate against women but [B.S. comment that irks me to remember]
Doctor: *Looks politely skeptical, folds his arms over his chest* ...Is that discrimination? Because that sounds exactly like discriminating against women.
The researcher didnāt say a word (to me or the doctor) for the rest of class and booked it once the lesson was done.
Doctor got some brownie points for that one!
I have one of the chillest 5 year olds ever in a private lesson at work right now. His parents curl his hair and heās got little teeny glasses he refuses to wear, and he always wears the most up-to-date fashionable clothes for kidlets.
In my lessons, there is one rule: English only. Itās an English conversation practice class, after all, so speaking your mother tongue isnāt really encouraged.
Despite that, as soon as the door closes and our little class begins, he immediately wants to share anything and everything with me... in his mother tongue.
āHey look, Stefanie, the rubber band on my crayon box makes a ātwangā sound when I hit it. *Tugs on the band* See?!ā
āCheck it out, if I shake my bag really hard everything will be all messed up inside! ...Oh, ew, look, Stefanie, I still have breadcrumbs from lunch. Donāt tell my mom.ā
He also likes to voice his opinions on the way I teach my class. Not in a mean way, but in a ātaking chargeā way.
āLook, I know weāre doing the alphabet, but Iād rather play that game where you make me say something in English and then I get to throw a ball into a basket.ā
āHey, so, this game is fun, but can we go over my homework?ā (Is this kid even real?)
Heās a smart kid and I get a kick out of him sharing all this with me, but I wish he would stick to English a little bit more....
Her Nose is as Fat as a Dumpling
My class doesnāt have a curriculum or a textbook, so itās up to me to come up with each lesson. Nobody seems to care what I teach as long as itās not about Taiwan, so I can talk about whatever I want. While freedom is nice, coming up with two hours of material for a class can be rather daunting, and I steal other teachers' ideas almost as much as my students plagiarize. Ā Of course, I do it with permission, and nobody is grading me.
My class is supposed to focus on oral English, so I try to think of useful activities and units that will improve my students' speaking ability in a relevant way. Ā Common activities for an oral classroom are dialogues, which Chinese students like because all they have to do is memorize the correct responses, speeches, which are boring for everyone involved, skits, which really give my students a chance to show how much fun they are, and story-telling, which is a common part of English conversations and gives me a chance to talk about children's stories and fairy tales while learning more about Chinese folklore.
Over the past month, I've been focusing on story-telling with my students. We started with descriptions. Ā Descriptions are generally the most boring part of stories, so based on a lesson that Johnny taught to his class, I decided introduce my students to similes. Ā The examples they were given were "busy as a bee," "healthy as a horse," and "tall as a giraffe." Ā There are also similes in Chinese, so they caught onto this concept fairly quickly and had some fun with it. Based on their answers, I was able to figure out some common Chinese similes:
As small as a cherry (when talking about noses or lips).
As lazy as a pig.
As relaxed as a cat.
Some of my favorite similes that they presumably made up themselves are these:
Claire is as sunny as a sunflower. She is as irritable as a tiger.
He is as flexible as a monkey.
He is as smart as a happy sheep.
Her disposition is as tender as the afternoon sunshine.
Her fingers are as slender as bamboo shoots.
She is as lively as a cricket.
His mouse is as big as a horse (I think this student meant mouth).
His chest is as broad as the sea.
He sings like a hungry wolf which hasnāt eaten any food in weeks.
He is fat like a penguin.
His small eyes are as bright as 100-watt bulbs.
Her teeth are as white as salt.
She has two sex lips like two orange slices.
Her eyelashes are as dense as a comb.
Her eyebrows are as short as hairy insects.
She eats as slowly as a chicken eats rice.
We are as good as mandarin ducks (she was talking about their friendship).
Her temper is as fiery as a volcano.
My father is as fat as a balloon, his skin as black as chocolate, and he eats as fast as a tornado.
He is as talkative as a never-ending flood.
But unfortunately, there are too many zits on his face, making his face like the moonscape devastated by meteorites.
I like that these similes teach me a bit about Chinaāfor instance, chickens eat rice (albeit slowly), and mandarin ducks apparently make good friends. Comparing teeth to salt makes me cringe, and calling someone's eyebrows hairy insects seems like it would be a huge insult, except that all of these students are far too polite to write anything rude about their subjects.
After I was done teaching this class, Skylar came to find me in my classroom. She walked by my students leaving the classroom, and one of them, Constantine, was clearly struck by her. He stared at her wide-eyed, and as she walked into my classroom, she heard him say to himself, āAs beautiful as an angel.ā
I have done my job well.

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Adult Classes.
Whenever I have to teach an adult class here at the library, I get really nervous. There is something about speaking in front of one's peers that is inherently more daunting than teaching children (in my case, at least.) However, about midway through the class, I always loosen up and start to enjoy myself. After the adult classes, I always think "that wasn't bad at all." But by the time the next one comes around, I am nervous again, even though I always enjoy myself. The people in today's class are so friendly and inquisitive; I love them! I like that Koreans don't shy away from asking direct questions. I think that as Americans, we brush over things and stick to the surface too much. For example, today I was asked how much I owe in student loans and what my monthly payments are. To many people, this would seem rude or intrusive, but not in Korea. I was glad they asked because I was able to share with my situation, which I feel is pretty typical for Americans who have recently graduated from college. All in all, I need to not dread my adult classes, because I always leave the classroom with a smile on my face!