Could anyone please let me know about the reality of teaching in Taiwan without a bachelor degree?

Is it possible at all?

If so, under what circumstances?

Do you have any such experience to share?

Thanks a lot.

So, is what your saying is the reality not good that I can not teach without a degree in Taiwan?The silly thing is I am more well spoken and more well read than any of my friends with degrees, and they are shocked when I tell them I dont have one. But is it going to be a struggle to find work?

Sure! You can find a job in Taiwan.
You will have to find some kind of visa solution.

However, your first sentence is a little twisted. Who doesn’t do that in a forum?

I think it said that in reality all foreigners who work in kindergartens in Taiwan got the job without the papers necessary. However, as far as I know there no more jobs in kindergartens in the morning. Most people I know work in the afternoon only. That’s because of new enforced government regulations which prohibit foreigners to teach kindergarten aged children.

Find a job in some Buxiban no problem!

Why is it that people without degrees are always attempting to make a point about how smart they are by 'trashing' those with degrees?  The fact of the matter is that there are some individuals, like myself, who will not be so uncivilized as to tell another person that their spoken English is poor.  A person is not going to cover up their insecurities or self-esteem issues by pointing at the 'perceived' faults of other.

M. Dujon Johnson, B.A., M.A.(06), J.D.

Ph.D student

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.

see my post at "how to get an esl certificat"

the first time teaching i've had no working permit but my own apt. and scooter (registred on a taiwanese friend), teached at 5 differnent schools, had plenty of private students and flew every 2 months to hong kong for the visa extension. the money i've made was excellent.

but avoid overstaying your visa at any means (even one day will put you on the bad-guy-list).

i am a teacher i have done my masters in english literature

i wanted to know if i can be a teacher in ur school

i want to apply

This is what is wrong with people today.  Especially Americans.

Fist of all, I am American . . . not very proud of it though.  This earth is for all of us.  Second, there will be many grammer, spelling mistakes in this blog because I am not afraid to write how I talk in front of friends.  Nobody speaks perfect grammatical English.  I do not refine how I talk, who I am, or how I write a blog.  Of course I can teach different tenses to students, but can you teach them how to converse in a bar with drunk Americans?

I am two classes away from a B.S. in chemical engineering.  This has plagued everything in my life since 1998.  A mistake to drop out?  Yes.  A regret? not at all.

We have to love everybody.  Scientist and Priest, college grad and non-college grad.  Just like the p[oor hate the rich, the high school grads hate the college grads.  College is an experience that I'll never forget.  I learned more outside of class than I did inside of it.  You must realise that the college grads and the rich do have knowledge (no survival skills maybe - but knowledge, yes).

And you rich and college grads that see the poor and the high school grads as lesser beings, remember that you money and your degrees are nothing but pieces of paper with a signature on them.

When quantum physics and spirituality meet, when science and religion meet, when rich and poor can be friends, and when all you guys start finding out the streghts of each other, this is when we can start to change the world.

If that doesn't work, then I propose two other options.

1. Get rid of money.  We tell our children their whole lives that life isn't fair.  Then we have currency which tries to make it fair.  Stop selling your skills and offer them.

2.  Look at how the Mexicans live.  12 people in a 3 bedroom house.  Now that's family values.  If you don't want them crossing the border anymore, then get rid of the border . . . isn't it an imaginary line anyway?

Don't play leapfrog with unicorns