Questions regarding the legality of teaching in Asia.

[Potential Teacher]

Greetings, some of you may remember me from previous threads that I made stating my intent to teach English in Thailand. The conclusion to those threads was that I was not qualified enough.

However, I come to you with another question; two years from now I will be a qualified Physical Education Teacher. I have heard that in Thailand, anyone with a degree can do the TFL course and teach abroad, however countries such as Japan require you do be a qualified English teacher. I honestly don't recall much about it, but I remember reading that a possible workaround for this was teachers that do not specialize in teaching English can then take a one year course to be deemed qualified, however any details regarding this eludes me.

I don't know how it works in your respective country of origin, but I just finished a two year course that allows me to do two additional years now and after that I will be a qualified Physical Education Teacher. I do not know if I will still want to teach abroad two years from now, my mindset could change entirely.

That being said, the best thing in life you can have is options. I want to know if this is a viable one.

Edit: To summarize all I'd still need to do;

-Finish the following 2 years of Physical Education

-Do 1 additional year, if needed.

-Take the TFL course in whichever country I choose to teach in.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Potential Teacher

[Suradit69]

"...countries such as Japan require you do be a qualified English teacher."

In order to teach English?? Rather nit-picking of them.

"That being said, the best thing in life you can have is options. I want to know if this is a viable one. "

I'd seriously consider exploring whatever other options are on your list. Why not teach PE in your own country ... or even teach English there?

[Scott]

The situation in Thailand is that you generally need to have a Bachelor's Degree to get a teacher's license and the non-immigrant B. If your Physical Education certificate is not a Bachelor's Degree, you can expect problems. You may be able to get the non-immigrant B visa, but the TL might be a problem (or vice versa).

You do not need to have a TEFL. You may be able to teach a subject other than English, including PE. We have foreign PE teachers.

If you teach English, much of it will be conversational English and that includes less grammar.