Head to Thailand for five TEFLtastic months of teaching experience, with full support, training and some very cheeky monkeys on the new Teach in Thailand Internship – the perfect option if you’ve never taught abroad before. Before you touch down in Thailand in October, you’ll complete at least 120 hours of TEFL training and be given bags of teaching tips from i-to-i’s expert tutors. So, you’ll be ready and raring to go when you face...

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In the west, we’ve gotten used to over-paying for things: car parking charges, expensive housing, rip-off public transport, beers that cost as much as your hourly wage, the list goes on… Thankfully, there are plenty of places where your hard-earned cash goes much further. They all share common characteristics: cheap housing, lots of activities to keep you occupied, and tropical climates that make food bountiful. Of course, the tropical climate also offers the benefit of...

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Emerging from several long years of study to a lack of jobs? Then pack your bags, grab a TEFL certificate and escape! Mix together the burnout from long nights of revision and the disappointment at the lack of decent graduate jobs available, and it’s no wonder that you’re thinking about escaping and travelling the world. But where to go? Here are our top seven favourite places to explore after you finish university. Psst… want to...

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Forget finding true love, climbing Everest and/or saving the world – here’s why working abroad should be number one on your bucket list! And with over a billion people learning English worldwide teaching English overseas is one of the easiest ways to start working abroad. Find out how to do it with a free copy of TEFL Uncovered: How to Teach Your Way Abroad with TEFL. 1. You’ll get paid to travel We’ve all been...

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This wonderful guest post comes courtesy of Lindsay Clandfield, an English teacher, teacher trainer and author. He is the co-author of the award-winning Dealing with Difficulties (Delta Publishing), The Language Teacher's Survival Handbook (iT's magazines publishing) and lead author of Macmillan's new course series for adults Global. Lindsay is also an avid blogger, you can follow him at www.sixthings.net. 1. “I am not a real teacher.” This is very common, especially if you have taken...

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Everyone tells you about how a TEFL course will help you find work, improve your CV, fund your travels and have a truly unique off the beaten track travel experience. What they don’t often tell you is that taking a TEFL course can also get you involved with the kind of drunken revelry, hazy memories and mammoth hangovers usually associated with going on a world tour with Ozzy Osbourne. These stories from a few of...

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Imagine the scene – you’ve just graduated from university, saddled with piles of student debt, full of ambition, and the only job available? Flipping burgers at your local fast food joint. Sounds awful, but it’s a reality that many in the class of 2010 are facing up to, with over 70 applicants for every decent graduate job out there. But wait… there’s another way! While the smell of grease and broken dreams is a tempting...

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Discover how Elise Boros is feeding her passion for travel with an amazing TEFL job in Hong Kong! How old were you when you decided to teach English overseas? Actually my first job teaching English was in France at a Polytech in Lyon. I was 23 when I did this, and now I’m 24 teaching young children and adults in HK. What led you to want to teach overseas? Straight up, it really complemented my...

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We always say TEFL can take you anywhere in the world, but where?! We caught up with a few i-to-i graduates (and Chalkboard members) to discover where their TEFL course took them: ‘I do love the TEFL life…’ Rozel Le Cornu, 25, quit her job in the UK and joined i-to-i’s Teach in China Internship before heading off to work in Mongolia. 'TEFL has given me the freedom to be able to go anywhere I...

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Since leaving the rat race behind five years ago, self confessed lazy guy from Boston, Matt, 29, has been all over the world, funding his travels through a mixture of blogging, teaching and clever budgeting. While he originally started blogging in order to impress guidebook editors, he’s now lucky enough to be able to make a living from his blog, Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site. But how does he do it? We caught up with him...

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