Andrew: Australia: Dec 12, 2018

I would like to teach overseas to challenge myself and to learn more about other cultures along the way. I love travelling and making new friends, while sharing as much about Australian culture as I can along the way.

I would be a suitable teaching candidate, as I have a passion about helping people communicate across cultures and different languages. I have seen many of my friends who don’t speak English as their first language, struggle with learning it. I believe as a teacher I could provide the enthusiasm and motivation to help students overcome their challenges. Learning English is as much about learning a new culture, as it is a language.

As part of my TEFL course, I was required to plan and conduct an English class for both beginner and intermediate learners. I has required to create a lesson plan with a teaching objective with the aim of teaching the class without the the use of a second language. In my previous job, I was also required to deal with clients from countries whose primary language was not English. In both these cases I learnt how important it is to change your language level to match that of the speaker.