ESL Teachers

I love working with children. I currently volunteer with my church’s Sunday school and teach elementary school age children. I volunteered for 5years in my daughter’s classes. I helped the teacher grade papers and worked in groups with the students. I also worked one on one with a child that other parents would not work with, I was able to help him concentrate and do his work. I am kind and caring when dealing with children and can get on their level when interacting with them.

I have a year of teaching English experience in Korea and am excited to return to Korea to resume my English teaching career. I like to have fun with my students and bring energy and enthusiasm to the classroom to ensure they are happy and learning in a safe and positive educational environment. I have all of my visa documents prepared and am ready to return to Korea as soon as I find a suitable position.

I am a strong willed, passionate and dedicated individual that always strives for the best in myself and others. I am flexible, pick up new skills quickly and enjoy new challenges which fall outside my comfort zone.

I have had a strong interest in teaching for a number of years now and have been working hard to achieve that goal. I also wish to travel and see new parts of the world and I believe teaching abroad offers me the best of both worlds.

I love working with young learners and have experience in several classroom settings, including children aged 4-5 and 7-9. I have a range of knowledge of classroom management, lesson planning and in teaching groups English. I have recently completed my 120 Hour TEFL certificate, which gives me a firm understanding of what challenges might await me should I come to South Korea and teach English.

I graduated from University with a 2:1 in English, so that gives me a sound knowledge of the language I will be teaching. I have also acquired valuable life skills, having been in the world of work for a number of years in both the military and in the private sector.

I have an easy going but professional personality and can fit in well, working efficiently as both part of a team and individually. I believe South Korea has a strong and rich heritage, which is something I wish to be a part of. I think my working skills, along with my qualifications and classroom knowledge, would make me a strong candidate for a teaching role in your country.

I am a CELTA-trained teacher with over 6 months of full time teaching experience, which I undertook after graduating with a First Class degree in English Language and Linguistics. I taught a range of levels of English ability, in classes of mostly adults. I did however spend a month teaching classes of children and teenagers, so I have some experience with these age groups also. Around 50% of the lessons I taught followed a curriculum set by the school and the rest were planned and prepared by me. Therefore I am skilled in teaching with a textbook and also in devising and delivering lessons from scratch.

My personality helps me very much in the classroom. I am warm, friendly and patient, so my students feel comfortable and ready to learn very quickly. I always endeavor to understand each student's individual learning needs and be considerate of these in class. I am focused on my lesson plans, but relaxed enough to allow certain discussions or activities to extend beyond my plan if the students are becoming very engaged and are developing their English language skills in a productive way.

I am a native English speaker from America with a Bachelor's Degree. I'm a responsible professional who is open-minded to other cultures and feel I would be a great fit for this opportunity. I am not looking at this as any sort of vacation, and I acquired a 120 hour TEFL certificate to help me along.

I am an Attorney/Lawyer from Cape Town South Africa. I have previously practiced in the corporate sector firstly in Litigation and then on the commercial side. With my litigation experience i will have no problem in teaching a class and bringing a point across where everyone can easily understand what is being taught.

I have previously tutored at my High School (2004 – 2008) being three times a week, 45 minutes a lesson on a wide range of subjects offered at the school being Languages, Maths, Accounting etc

I have a go getter attitude and adapt to a new environment easily. My patient disposition, passion for teaching and fondness for children make me an excellent candidate.

My experience as an English Language Assistant has developed a passion and personal commitment to
three things: fostering a positive learning environment for students of various ages and backgrounds,
maximising individual student performance and developing student interest in English language and English and American culture. I feel that I am a perfect match for the open Teacher position at your school.

In my most recent position an English Language Assistant in Spain, I developed highly effective lesson plans and motivational exercises that promoted interest and knowledge retention. I have also been highly successful in helping children across a wide spectrum of ages from 4 to 18 and gained the ability to tailor each of my lesson plans and activities to the class I am working with. I believe each student should be treated as an individual and, as such, each lesson should be tailored to suit the class in question in order for them to reach their maximum learning potential.

While in this position, my focus was on the facilitation and encouragement of conversation in the classroom. I believe speaking and listening are just as important as reading and writing when developing life-long English speakers. It is my aim when in the classroom to build interest and confidence in my students so that English is something fun they want to learn, rather than something they have to learn.

I am well-travelled and, through my time working at the Centre of English Studies Leeds, I am experienced in engaging students from a diverse range of cultures and ethnic backgrounds. While I was there I worked as a summer school social coordinator, in charge of taking groups of students on excursions and activities across the city and further afield. My students at the time came from across the world, from Argentina and Germany to Taiwan and Russia and my role at the English Academy was to encourage English conversation and comfort with the language outside the classroom.

By using traditional teaching methods I learnt in my 150 hour TELF course and the innovative methods I developed working as an English Language Assistant, I believe I'll make an English Teacher who is engaging and enthusiastic in hands-on learning with students. Working with my youngest students in Spain also made me patient and dedicated to promoting interactive learning within a group environment.

I am confident that my background in education will be a valuable asset to your school and I look forward to the opportunity to discuss this position further. Please find my attached CV, and I hope you will find me suitable for this position.

My interest in teaching at your school comes from my passion for teaching itself. When I was young, I enjoyed tutoring my brother and teaching him the alphabet, just because I thought it was fun. This followed me throughout my life, as I tutored and did camp counselling while I was doing my education.

Though I decided that I didn’t think teaching would be something I wanted to pursue professionally, hence my degree in Environment and Resource studies, I ended up going back to it after a number of years of working in a corporate environment. I realized how much I missed being in the education field.

In my professional teaching experiences, I have taught every age group, every proficiency level, and taught both in classroom and online. Teaching through many different mediums has made me a better educator, as I am now able to assess the needs and learning styles of a student much more efficiently than I did in the past. I enjoy making my classes fun and interactive, to make sure the students learn through a variety of different methods, including audio, visual and kinesthetic.

I am a young graduate who is looking for exciting opportunities to travel and experience new cultures, specifically to countries in Asia. I have therefore completed my TEFL certificate to train me to teach English as a Foreign language in Asia, allowing me to live and work in a foreign country. I have always wished to travel to this part of the world as it is a vibrant and exciting culture so the opportunity to participate in the culture directly instead of as a tourist is utterly enthralling. Therefore, I am looking for opportunities to start around August/September 2018, in schools in Asian countries, such as Japan, South Korea, China and Hong Kong.

I have continuously been involved in teaching throughout my time at school and through University as a volunteer at a sports camp and football coaching. I am a very positive individual who continues to challenge myself and a willingness to succeed at what I put my mind to. From this I look to bring out the best in all my students and feel hugely rewarded when seeing student improvement and success.

I have recently completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Sport Science (Biomechanics) at Brunel University, obtaining a 2:1 class degree. During my time at Uni I completed a year long unpaid placement at West Ham United Football Club as part of my studies and learning. This experience allowed me to work with the academy as a coach and teacher for the U8-U18 year old players. I planned and implemented coaching plans for all these age groups to a professional standard and found this as a quality learning experience on teaching methods and how to produce effective/fun lessons.

I have recently completed my TEFL qualification 120+ Online course to help give me the knowledge on how to deliver effective English lessons to foreign students. This has led on from my practical skills whilst I was at West Ham and allows for those skills to be implemented within the classroom, including classroom discipline and creating a positive learning environment centered on student talking time.

As mentioned above, I am a keen sportsman and regularly participate in Hockey and Cricket, whilst also a regular gym goer and cyclist for regular fitness. I also enjoy gaming and social activities with friends.

Please view my CV for further details on qualifications and skills.

I am interested in applying for the ESL teaching post recently advertised on the tefl.org.uk website.

I have experience of living in diverse cultures and countries. I have lived and worked in Switzerland and in Ghana. In Ghana, I faced the challenge of working and living in a culture quite different from my own. I was able to adapt to local circumstances, make local friends and take advantage of opportunities to have new experiences. These included new foods, new cultural festivals and making local friends. These friends were invaluable in giving me an insight into understanding different social norms and expected behaviours and to see everyday things from a different perspective. In Switzerland I feel I faced a different challenge; working in a familiar culture but using a different language. I took regular lessons to improve my French and practised in shops, travelling and meeting new friends. The improvement in my French enabled me to have more in depth conversations and to attend French cinema and theatre.

I believe my experience of working outside the UK has proven to myself that I am resilient and can embrace new opportunities. In addition to making friends amongst Ghanaians I became good friends with many of the volunteers who were also from different countries, backgrounds and ages. I was able to do this as I am supportive of people, a good listener, maintain a good sense of humour and I am open to new ideas. I am a reflective individual who will think about why a course of action has not led to the desired outcome. I think this ability to reflect on how or why things were different contributed to my enjoyment of Ghana.

I completed my 140 hour TEFL certificate last year with a view to using it as a basis for a career change. In my career to date, I have held senior positions that have required me to negotiate to get the outcomes I need. The listening, understanding and compromise that is required to do this will be useful in a new working environment with new colleagues. I am organised and have excellent planning skills. I use these in work to ensure I meet objectives. In my career I have had many opportunities to present ideas and reports to managers and the community. As a result, I am a confident public speaker. This is a skill I believe will be invaluable in the classroom. In much of my more recent work I have been responsible for training people in new working models or in IT systems. I have found having training responsibilities to be an energising and enjoyable experience. Training people has also been a fantastic opportunity to motivate people I will be working with and begin to develop relationships.

I enjoyed the weekend module of my TEFL course where we practised teaching. I found I could build on my previous experience of training to set objectives and build a plan to achieve the desired objectives. It was enjoyable and rewarding to be able to put some of the theory from the TEFL course into practice. The weekend was challenging and enjoyable and confirmed to me that teaching English as a foreign language is something I want to pursue.