Teaching English as a Foreign Language
I decided to double major in Dental Hygiene (which I'm kinda putting off for now) and ESL, which is helping those who don't speak English, learn English. Teaching abroad is something I really want to do because I want to travel and experience life and learn about other cultures. However, in order to teach abroad I must not only earn my TEFl (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification, which isn't a big deal, along with a Bachelor's degree, which means more school for me that I'm not excited about but I'm so driven to teach in another country that I'll go ahead and go to school for an additional 2 years to earn my Bachelor's. I have to get an internship in ESL to see what it would be like.
There are many places I would consider teaching, such as Japan, South Korea (although I've heard some stories about bad experiences) Hong Kong, Dominican Republic, and although a lot of Canadians speak English, I would consider Canada because it's not far from home and easy travel.
Today I was able to observe a close friend of mine classroom (she's not an ESL teacher) just to get an idea of what teaching would be like, and Boy was it a handful. She teaches kids, and I'm more interested in Secondary-Education rather than Primary. Little kids don't listen and have extremely short attention spans which I definitely won't have the patience for unfortunately although they seemed to have some structure, they're still learning a lot. I enjoyed today's experience and the kids seemed to liked me quite a bit.
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