YOU - Confident and Skilled in the front of your classroom:  Here's all the Skills you missed if you haven't taken a formal TEFL Training Certificate Course.  No need to miss out - get your basic TEFL Training right here - all the basic concepts, vocabulary, lesson planning - in one place. KNOW What to do and HOW to do it! TEFL Training for New Teachers How to Teach English Overseas A Ten-Week Plan to a NEW Life Overseas Everything you Need to Know to Land a Job and get Moved Overseas. Insider Tips from an Experienced TEFL Teacher, TEFL Teacher Trainer and former Peace Corps Volunteer working Overseas since 1989.

What's the #1 Most Common Mistake of Newbie and Wannabe TEFL Teachers?

One of the biggest mistakes people make in their lives is to put off, put off, put off - until later - until they meet some false level of criteria - before they ACT and do what is needed to get what they REALLY want from life.

It is a simple thing (okay maybe not super simple . . .) to land yourself a good TEFL job and to get yourself living in a country where you can live reasonably well for 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 or even less of what you THINK it costs you to live well where you are now.   AND - you are seeing and traveling and experiencing the REAL world out there - not just the shopping malls, SUV payments, and other things that can make life in the Western world seem, well . . . a bit plastic at times.

There is an ease of remaining in your home country in that it is nice and safe - and that makes it easy to blame others, or the economy or whatever  for YOUR lack of progress in getting what you want out of life. And there are plenty of people there to naysay and put you back on the course to dull mediocrity and a sad dull boring life . . . just like theirs. They don't want you to break the mold - it would only disturb their own resignation to their paths.

Come on! Get with it! Don't set an artificially high goal for yourself. For many of us out here, one job lead to the next, to the next, to the next.  The author of this website is a former Peace Corps Volunteer who has been living overseas since 1989.  You don't have to land the perfect job the very first time.  Jump in, get your feet wet in the business.  You can avoid 98% of all problems Teaching English overseas by checking the Questions to Ask before Accepting that Teaching Job page.

All it takes is the decision to get going.  And the decision to live a dream that maybe you thought you would/could never attain.

Do it.  Do it NOW.