{"id":4431,"date":"2017-11-28T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog?p=4431&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=4431"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:04:56","slug":"how-to-get-paid-to-travel-the-world-teach-english-abroad-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/how-to-get-paid-to-travel-the-world-teach-english-abroad-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Paid While You Travel &#038; Teach English Abroad &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video Oxford Seminars instructor, Brent, and\u00a0graduate, Magda talk about teaching ESL overseas &amp; how you can get paid to travel &amp; teach English abroad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Foxfordseminars%2Fvideos%2F1765906610117112%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is teaching English abroad for you? If you\u2019re not sure, watch Magda and Brent talk about their experiences teaching English abroad for info about what teaching English overseas is like. Attend\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/free-info-sessions\/\">free information session<\/a> near you to learn more!<\/p>\n<h3>Read the highlights from the video below:<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"padding-left:10px\">\n<li><a href=\"#Q1\">How did Magda and Brent start teaching English abroad?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q2\">Do you have to get certified?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q3\">Is the certification process hard?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q4\">What\u2019s the application process like?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q5\">Did you have to go through interviews?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q6\">What is the first day teaching English abroad like?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q7\">What are the most difficult challenges when you\u2019re teaching in a new country?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q8\">Did you get to visit any other countries while you were teaching English abroad?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q9\">What is the social life like abroad?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q10\">Do ESL teachers with advanced degrees get paid more?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Q11\">I want to try this. How do I go about it?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><h3>See More of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/tag\/where-in-the-world-are-magda-and-brent\/\">Magda and Brent\u2019s travel adventures<\/a> through Asia &#038; the Middle East<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4487\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4487\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4487\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058.jpg\" alt=\"How to Get Paid to Travel &amp; Teach English Abroad - Video\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G1950058-192x144.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Learn how you can get paid to travel world and teach English abroad<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Q And A:<\/h2>\n<div id=\"Q1\"><\/div>\n<h3>1: How did you start teaching English abroad?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> All through my undergrad, I had seen posters about teaching English abroad. So it was always in the back of my mind, and then when I graduated I applied to Teacher\u2019s College, and then I got kind of afraid that I would then go to Teacher\u2019s College, become a teacher, retire, and then die.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t really want that life path so I took off to BC [British Columbia], Vancouver, and then went back to Teacher\u2019s College. I just kind of wanted to follow that dream and go somewhere first, and as it turns out, that has been sort of the course I\u2019ve taken for several years: go teach, come home, go teach, come home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q2\"><\/div>\n<h3>2: So is it as easy as saying \u201cOkay, I want to go teach English abroad\u201d and you just get on a plane and pick a country? Don\u2019t you have to get certified?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Yeah. It\u2019s not quite that easy. Well, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s really easy to do, it\u2019s harder in here [points to head] to decide \u201cam I actually going to do this for a year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[To Magda] What made you decide to go abroad and teach English?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> I\u2019ve always had a really strong passion for traveling. When I was studying at Trent [University], I spent three months in Europe. I traveled across Europe and I went to a lot of countries and I was there for like five days, four days [in each country] and I was like \u201cthis isn\u2019t enough. I need to sit down, settle down in a country and really experience the culture and get to know the people.\u201d So I went back and finished my last year at Trent and a family friend of ours was actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/korea\/\">teaching in Korea<\/a> the year before, and a friend of mine is Korean as well, and I had heard fantastic things about Korea. So I graduated and decided, \u201cI\u2019m going to go teach English in Korea! I\u2019m going to immerse myself in the culture. I\u2019m going to teach people English.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I signed up with Oxford Seminars because when you teach abroad most schools require you to have a certification. I signed up with Oxford because they have the in-class component. I was like \u201cI have never taught before, so I need some sort of experience. I need something to get me in front of the classroom, to teach me the skills that I need to make lessons and be able to speak in front of people because I was scared to stand up in front of a class and speak.<\/p>\n<p>So I signed up with Oxford. I took my course in May. Brent was my teacher.\u00a0Brent also taught in Korea so he had a lot of insight and told me a lot about Korea and kind of pushed me in that direction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q3\"><\/div>\n<h3>3: Is the certification process hard? How long does it take and what were the moments you remember the most?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> There are so many courses out there. There are so many different options: there\u2019s online, in-class\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong>\u00a0Correspondence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Yeah, and there\u2019s ones that range from $300 to like $1000 or more, so I was like \u201cI don\u2019t really know what to do. I have no idea what to choose.\u201d I talked to my Mom, and she said \u201cwell, Magda, you\u2019ve never really taught so you should probably go in front of a classroom, pay the extra little bit and get that hands on in-class experience.\u201d So I ended up choosing Oxford. It was also in my town, so it made it a little bit easier to make that decision.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine did a course online. She paid like $300 for it. She never got her certificate, she never got her money back and she was super upset. Luckily, she already found a school in Korea and they were really understanding about it and they still hired her. So she got lucky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> So she got scammed on her TESL certificate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> She got scammed on her certificate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> So be careful. Ask people about programs. Make sure it\u2019s well respected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Do your research. I did a lot of research and there\u2019s so much out there. I chose Oxford Seminars because it was in my town, it was in class, it was at Trent, it had to be a real thing.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really good choice. It got me in front of the classroom. Brent taught me how to teach and how to make lessons. It made me a lot more comfortable and pushed my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4488\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4488\" class=\"wp-image-4488\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Get Paid to Travel &amp; Teach English Abroad - Video\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/G2229881-2-192x144.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exploring Bagan temples in Myanmar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"Q4\"><\/div>\n<h3>4: So the next step after certification, then what do you do? Do you have to figure out what country? What\u2019s the application process like?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Figure out where you might like to go. Like for me, all through my undergrad I had seen posters for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/japan\/\">teaching English in Japan<\/a>, so that was always in the back of my mind\u2026So yeah I was thinking about Japan, and as it turned out, one of my friends in Teacher\u2019s College got a job in South Korea. I thought, \u201cWell if I go there at least I\u2019ll know someone in the country.\u201d So I changed my direction and my focus and went to Korea. But I think that\u2019s kind of the first step, picking where you want to go, because there are so many options. Do you want warm weather, cold weather, big city, small town, Asia, South America? Where do you want to teach and what suits you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> There are lots of reasons for choosing where you\u2019re going to teach. Somebody like me for example, I came right out of university. I had my student debts so I was really worried about moving to another country and having to pay my school debts off and not being able to. And Korea happens to have a fantastic\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Remuneration program? You get paid well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Yeah, you get paid really well in Korea and it\u2019s easy to live there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Yeah they pay your housing. It\u2019s a pretty nice step from school to whatever you do after that. You go there, most schools; they pay your flight, they pay your apartment, they pay you a pretty good salary. The cost of living is cheaper than North America for sure. So you can go and live there very, very comfortably and you don\u2019t really have worries, like if you spend all of your money, you still have an apartment. It\u2019s a nice transition. I paid off significant student loans in two and a half years there, which I could never have done here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> So that was my decision, and also the fact that I could make money and be able to make my payments back home, and experience a culture that was totally different from my culture here in Canada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q5\"><\/div>\n<h3>5: What was the interview process like? Once you decided you wanted to go to Korea, did you have to go through interviews? How do you interview when you\u2019re in a different country?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Skype is the most common way, or a phone call or something like that. Obviously in person isn\u2019t really feasible when you\u2019re talking across the Pacific Ocean. So I had my interview at 2am our time, so I had to stay up for that. My first interview was very strange. The interviewer didn\u2019t really speak English so it was a very broken conversation. She asked me about a couple books I\u2019d read and then was like \u201cOkay. Thank you.\u201d I don\u2019t know what happened. She offered me the job, and I had another interview two nights later, again at like 1am. And I felt more comfortable with that one because I could have a better conversation with the interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a little different than your traditional interviews here. And some of the questions, they\u2019re not always the type you\u2019d expect for a job interview, like \u201cwhat kind of music do you listen to?\u201d I guess they\u2019re trying to get to know you as a person to see how well you\u2019ll adjust to living in a new country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q6\"><\/div>\n<h3>6: What is the first day of teaching abroad like when you first arrive in your new country?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> My first day of teaching: mine was a little different I think than most people\u2019s. I taught from 1pm to 9pm. My co-teacher was super helpful. He talked to my director and he was like \u201cOkay, we should ease her into it, let her observe some of my classes.\u201d So I sat through two or three lessons that he taught and then my director came in and said, \u201cOkay. Your turn to teach.\u201d And she took me to my room and just handed me books and handed me the workbooks they were using and I said \u201cOkay, I guess I\u2019ll do what I can\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> I feel like it\u2019s a common story that they pretty much just throw you in. So don\u2019t be alarmed by that and don\u2019t be freaked out\u2026 If you look at your co-teachers, they probably weren\u2019t prepared either. So talk to them and they\u2019ll help you out.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the beauty of it. Everyone you meet teaching English abroad is in the same boat. Most of them came by themselves or maybe with one friend. Most of them maybe had a little bit of teaching experience, or just their TESL course, or whatever education they have. It\u2019s kind of sink or swim. And almost everybody swims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> I had a job in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/taiwan\/\">Taiwan<\/a> lined up and they wanted me to be there two weeks early for training purposes so maybe different countries have different standards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q7\"><\/div>\n<h3>7: What are the most difficult challenges when you\u2019re teaching in a new country?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Language barrier. Classroom management in another language is a big one. On the plus side, speaking of Asia anyway, the students are much better behaved than they are here. They tend to respect their teachers, which is nice. Even the disrespectful ones would be in the top 10% of good kids here.<\/p>\n<h3>7A: What age were your students?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Mine were about age 6 to 16.<br \/>\n<strong>Magda:<\/strong> Mine were about the same. I had a couple adults as well.<\/p>\n<h3>7B: Did you have a choice of what age you wanted to teach?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Yeah, for the most part. When you\u2019re looking for your job through Oxford at least.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Yeah you can let them know\u2026and the market will dictate some of that. So in Asia especially, the vast majority of jobs are teaching kids. But\u2026some places in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/mexico\/\">Mexico<\/a> and Central and South America are more adults, and even in Eastern Europe you might see more jobs teaching adults.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4489\" style=\"width: 868px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4489\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Get Paid to Travel &amp; Teach English Abroad - Video\" width=\"858\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2-690x458.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC1265-2-217x144.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magda and Brent Exploring the United Arab Emirates<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"Q8\"><\/div>\n<h3>8: Did you get to visit any other countries while you were teaching English abroad?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> While I was teaching in Korea, I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/malaysia\/\">Malaysia<\/a> for two weeks. I had finished my contract and I was going to come back but I wanted some time off in between\u2026 I went to Taiwan, I went to Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> I spent a year and a half in Korea in total. I went to the Philippines twice when I was there, and I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/hong-kong\/\">Hong Kong<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of time traveling in Korea\u2026 There\u2019s a lot to see in Korea as well\u2026 There are festivals on the weekends, you go snowboarding or skiing in the winter time, there are lanterns, you can climb mountains. So you have opportunities to travel every weekend. Even if you\u2019re not going very far, you can still travel within your country and see lots of things and do lots of things. But yeah, as Brent said, we spent a lot of time traveling after we finished teaching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> \u2026Save your money and you can do something like we did and see 15 countries in 6 months. It started out as a six week trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/thailand\/\">Thailand<\/a>\u2026 and that snowballed into a massive [trip] all through Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Iceland and home. So I would recommend that. Save your cash and then plan an epic trip and really go do it right.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q9\"><\/div>\n<h3>9: So it sounds like traveling is really accessible and easy to do\u2026What about when you\u2019re not traveling outside of where you\u2019re teaching? What\u2019s the social life like?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> I thought it was great. I equate my time in Korea to sort of like your first year of college or university, but with money. You\u2019re meeting all kinds of new people&#8230; you\u2019re arriving on your own and meeting all these people. It\u2019s pretty easy, I found, to meet people. You hear somebody speaking English and you just go talk to them like \u201cHey I\u2019m Brent, where are you from?\u201d and conversations and friendships just grow from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> It\u2019s so easy, and I feel like the people that I met abroad, I had so much in common with them. A lot of the people that do go and teach and travel, they have a similar mentality to you. And you make these bonds with these people and you\u2019re so close even though we\u2019re all over the world now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> And Korea especially, they\u2019re a pretty social country. A big part of their culture is just going out with their friends or family or coworkers, so I found it really, really easy to fall into a social group there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> There\u2019s a lot of Facebook meetup things as well, like Seoul hiking group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> And even if you just got there, and you\u2019re nervous and you haven\u2019t met many friends and you\u2019re at a small school and you see one of those [meetups], just go\u2026 and you\u2019ll meet people almost instantly and there\u2019s a good chance that you\u2019ll meet people that will become lifelong friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> All those people are in the same boat as you so they will understand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4490\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4490\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Get Paid to Travel &amp; Teach English Abroad - Video\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/underwater2-192x144.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vacationing in the Philippines after teaching English abroad<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"Q10\"><\/div>\n<h3>10: Is it easier for current language teachers to begin teaching abroad? And do you get paid more if you have a master\u2019s or doctorate degree in a language?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Yeah, if you have some teaching experience or if you\u2019re a current English teacher\u2026 you\u2019re going to have a leg up on the competition because the people competing for that position maybe don\u2019t have that experience, so that will help you.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same reason I tell people to get a TESL certificate. Even if it\u2019s not a requirement where you\u2019re going, having one puts you ahead of all the people that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get paid more if you have a master\u2019s or a doctorate degree? Typically you\u2019ll get some sort of bonus for higher education and advanced degrees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> You\u2019ll have more opportunities. You can teach at an international school, which often requires a teaching degree or a master\u2019s and a couple years of experience teaching as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> But they pay significantly more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Countries like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/united-arab-emirates\/\">UAE [United Arab Emirates]<\/a>, they also require that you have some experience and advanced degrees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Q11\"><\/div>\n<h3>11: I want to try this. How do I go about it?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lisa:<\/strong> There are info sessions all over Canada and the United States. Whatever city is closest to you, you can probably find one. Go to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/free-info-sessions\/\">free information session<\/a> and go through the certification process if it\u2019s for you. You can find all the information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/tesol-tesl-tefl-course\/\">oxfordseminars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Look online. Look for an information session and come to that and get to know the instructor\u2026 Look on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/esl-schools-directory\/\">ESL schools directory<\/a> on oxfordseminars.com. Look on other sites. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eslcafe.com\/\">Dave\u2019s ESL Caf\u00e9<\/a> is a good one. You can just get a sense of how many jobs are out there in certain areas. Figure out where you might like to go, get certified, and start applying. As long as you\u2019re open-minded about where you\u2019d like to go, there\u2019s a very good chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> Where there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Exactly, and then you get to go travel and get paid to do it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t have the education, there are so many other countries where you don\u2019t need that university degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> Yeah, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/china\/\">teach in China<\/a>. You can teach in many different places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magda:<\/strong> There are so many options out there. There are so many countries you can go to. Do the research. Oxford Seminars has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/where-you-can-teach\/\">fantastic page<\/a>, there\u2019s so much information on there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent:<\/strong> My life is totally different because I went and did this. It\u2019s shaped everything I\u2019ve done since and always will. 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