Teaching English As A Foreign Language
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Top Sites
Dave Sperling’s ESL Cafe – There isn’t the time to view more than a fraction of the vast amount of information Dave Sperling has compiled, from jobs and training to ideas for the EFL classroom. Added bonuses include a couple of thousand listings in the ESL Web Guide Database and busy forums for students and teachers. If you want to know something about the TEFL business, it’s likely to be here.
ESLinsider – Ian Leahy has created this excellent, slightly bolshie, blog and guide to teaching in Asia. Ian has taught in China, Korea and Taiwan, using this experience to inform, inspire and train new teachers online, providing loads of resources to make teaching ESL easier and more fun.
TEFL Course Review – Over 2000 student submitted reviews of 100+ schools from 50+ countries to help you find the TEFL certification course that meets your needs.
Links for TEFL Jobs Abroad
Adventure Teaching – Teaching placements in Korea and China.
All ESL – Helps teachers discover where they want to teach abroad. This website is devoted to ESL teachers who want to learn about the ESL job market, find teaching material and even relearn the grammar they learned as kids.
Alpadia Language School – Language teachers employed in schools and language camps around Europe.
American TESOL Institute – Learn, earn and travel in Thailand.
Berlitz – Language jobs (not just English) are available with a global education company active in 70 countries.
British Council – The UK’s international organisation for educational and cultural relations. Plenty of resources available including current teaching vacancies and TEFL training courses.
BusyTeacher – Provides over 16,000 free printable materials for ESL teachers, including worksheets, detailed lesson plans and in-depth articles.
Cactus TEFL – Book a TEFL course in a variety of locations around the world. Also includes a jobs page.
Compass International Teacher Recruitment – Recruits teachers to work in international schools worldwide.
Dave Sperling’s ESL Cafe – There isn’t the time to view more than a fraction of the vast amount of information Dave Sperling has compiled, from jobs and training to ideas for the EFL classroom. Added bonuses include a couple of thousand listings in the ESL Web Guide Database and busy forums for students and teachers. If you want to know something about the TEFL business, it’s likely to be here.
edHelper.com – Lesson plans and worksheets.
EF English First – With 400 English language schools and centres worldwide, EF English First has strong recruitment needs in China, Indonesia and Russia.
EL Gazette – Billed as the newspaper for English language and international education.
ELT News – A website for English teachers.
The English Camp Company – Teach English at summer camps for seven to 14 year olds in Italy and Austria. Teachers should be over 18, outgoing, organised, energetic and responsible native English speakers.
Eslbase.com – Has new job opportunities daily, as well as a worldwide directory of TEFL courses.
ESL Employment – Free ESL / EFL jobs posting and employment opportunities.
ESLinsider – Ian Leahy has created this excellent, slightly bolshie, blog and guide to teaching in Asia. Ian has taught in China, Korea and Taiwan, using this experience to inform, inspire and train new teachers online, providing loads of resources to make teaching ESL easier and more fun.
ESL Job Feed – ESL teaching opportunities worldwide available via RSS feed to your favourite website or your desktop.
ESL Jobs World – ESL Jobs World is for teachers interested in teaching English as second or foreign language, and the schools that are looking to hire them.
ESLlounge.com – Teacher resources, forums and a guide to teaching English Abroad.
The European Council of International Schools – Courses, resources and jobs abroad for teachers of any subject.
Global English – TESOL courses online.
Hess International Education Group – Taiwanese language school chain that has expanded into China and Korea.
International Schools Review – International educators share views and opinions on a variety of topics related to international teaching.
International Schools Services – Check out the positions available at ISS managed schools.
The International TEFL Corporation – Training and certification courses available in many locations around the world.
International TEFL Teacher Training – Become qualified with a TEFL certificate from ITTT and open a gateway to the world, travel, teaching and your future.
The Internet TESL Journal – Though this site stopped publishing over a decade ago, there is a huge amount of resources available to teachers including articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and links.
i to i – One of the early, and still big, players in the online TEFL course and packaged jobs market.
ITTO – TEFL certification courses provided in around a dozen countries including Mexico, Spain, Thailand and Canada.
John’s ESL/EFL Resources – A long time resident of Korea, John has been providing ESL resources since the 90s.
Kaplan International Colleges – Over 40 schools around the world.
Kid Castle – Starting with a single school in 1986, Kid Castle has expanded to 200 branches in Taiwan, and over 200 in mainland China.
KinderactiveLearning – Formally BarryFunEnglish, a site created by a teacher to use with his own teaching when working as an ESL teacher in Korea between 2004 and 2008. Now run as a hobby website. Sign up for free to start creating custom interactive language learning activities.
Laternfish – ESL worksheets and lesson plans.
LM Languages – Teachers of English and other European languages are hired.
The London Teacher Training Centre – LTTC offers TEFL courses and job placements around the world..
LoveTEFL – Online TEFL courses, plus internships and jobs in China, Thailand, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, Colombia and South Africa.
Mark’s ESL World – No doubt there’s still some useful stuff here but for younger readers this is how websites once looked.
Meriam-Webster Online – Word games, a thesaurus and a dictionary.
MES English – Free resources for teachers of young learners.
The New School – In New York City, Paris and online, The New School enrolls 10,000 degree seeking students in more than 130 undergraduate and graduate programmes. They do TESOL certification too.
OneStopEnglish – Over 6,500 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards. Also has career centre pages for finding jobs. Part of the MacMillan group.
On The Mark Education – Has placed hundreds of individuals in English teaching positions throughout China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia.
Reach to Teach – Offers English teaching jobs and volunteer positions in Taiwan, South Korea, China and Thailand.
SelectMyTutor – Tutors of varied subjects can monetize their skills by applying for tutoring jobs in the UK and abroad, and online.
Services for Open Learning – Long term volunteers are sent to eastern Europe to help support local English teachers. Wages are paid at the local rate.
St Giles International – TEFL courses held in schools in the UK and Canada.
TeacherHUB.com – K-12 news, lessons and shared resources by teachers, for teachers.
TeacherPlanet.com – Lots of resources including jobs for English teachers.
The Asian Life – This long standing site has changed its identity over the years, discarding material on other Asian countries, but still covers living and teaching in Korea.
The Teacher’s Guide – Lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children’s songs, and more.
Teach International – Provide practical short TESOL courses in Australia and New Zealand, plus Nagoya, Istanbul and Hanoi, job support services, a network of graduates to contact and ongoing support for people looking to teach English overseas.
TEFL Course Review – Over 2000 student submitted reviews of 100+ schools from 50+ countries to help you find the TEFL certification course that meets your needs.
TEFLGames.com – Along with promotion for ‘Word Up’, an ESL board game there is also some free stuff for English teachers wanting to keep their students interested.
TEFL International – Many and varied locations around the world to take a TEFL course.
TEFL Jobs World – A recruitment portal for English language school jobs worldwide.
TEFL.com – A well established ELT career portal.
TESall.com – A vertical search portal for ESL and EFL job seekers. Their search engine crawls multiple job boards and indexes the individual job postings. They then become searchable by keyword. Try searching using keywords like “shanghai” or “seoul + kids” and you’ll get a sense of how it works. They also host the TESall Ticker, an interactive news and information service for English teachers worldwide. The site is designed to be helpful to those new to teaching and travelling and looking for the information and resources necessary to get themselves started.
The Times Educational Supplement – Useful information and jobs in paper form and online.
YouCanTeachEnglish.com – Worth a look for the teacher interviews but this site is out of date and clearly no longer maintained.
1-language.com – An ESL site for everyone learning English. Free, comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, audio materials, helplines, and multi-lingual content.
Teaching English Resources
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