Three Things I've Learned Teaching EFL

Sometimes I think I fell into EFL without really noticing. I'd gotten my teaching certification in English Language Arts, did an entire year of interning at the middle and high school level with the usual Romeo and Juliet required reading.  My career as a teacher began with little to no indication I would, one year later, begin planning to move abroad. In fact, my career as a teacher was as average as they came:

• meetings with school library attendants for freshmen research papers 
• interscholastic challenges based on a series of short stories in middle school
• state tests, state tests, more state tests
• a series of bureaucratic nonsense meetings that did nothing but give us more bureaucratic nonsense papers to fill out.

In about a week, though, I send in my application for EPIK, the English Program in Korea.  That's not to say I won't be filling out paper-work as a teacher in Korea, of course--running a classroom has a certain universal rhythm.

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