Teaching without a degree sometimes is no more than some legal informality. It really depends on circumstances.
1) Salary
2) Age of students
3) The overall goal for English studies (just a little abc, my name is….) or perfect fluent English like a native American, which defiantly could drop an Irish, Scottish or even an Australian esl teacher behind a non native one.]
4) Personal qualities (patient with kids, knowledge of certain fields like med, law, politics, science, chemistry, physics) some adult students don’t want to talk to a young bachelor degreed college girl who doesn’t have a clue about the students profession.
5) The abundance of teachers with a degree. If there are no native English teachers around with the desired degree schools and especially kindergarten might choose to hire someone who meets their demand for that particular job. I say job because standing in front of 25 running diapers for 25 minutes holding a flash card and shouting A A A aaa apple It’s an apple! does not really require a degree.
To those non native English teachers who (trash on native qualified and degreed ESL teachers)
I see these posts all over the net. Most of the time these postings have some terrible errors in spelling and grammar, which makes me a little suspicious about the origin.
Myself: I am not a native ESL teacher and if I wanted to have this post here free of mistakes, I’d have to spent some time going over it several times. So if I wanted to bump on some native teachers it would take quite some time because I’d make sure not to have any errors in that particular post.
Personally, I think as a non-native English teacher you’re better off focusing on the few advantages you have and point them out.
1) You have managed to acquire the second language yourself to the degree you are at. This means you know how to get there out of personal experience.
2) You speak off shore English. This can be helpful with intermediate students because they can understand you. This will give them a little more confidence.
3) You might have other qualifications more suitable for the student you’re dealing with.
And last there will always be someone who can top you. When you are Prof. Dr. Dr. Med. Science law business and politics, you can start giving crap to others If you aren’t above this by then.
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