When teaching TEFL abroad, what are your priorities?
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When teaching TEFL abroad, what are your priorities?
What Are YOUR Priorities Foreign Teacher?
As we saw here in recent arguments some people don't think salaries are that important (I do). So please take 5 minutes to rank these items from 1 to 12 with one being your number 1 priority:
* Housing
* Safety
* Location of Work Site
* Local Language
* Salary
* Scam-Free Environment
* Medical Insurance
* Local Night & Social Life
* Paid Vacations
* Stability of Work & Country
* Politics of Destination Country
* Pollution & Health Hazards
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Re: When teaching TEFL abroad, what are your priorities?
Okay, here's my list;
1 - Safety
2 - Stability of Work & Country
3.- Pollution & Health Hazards
4.- Salary
5 - Stability of Work & Country
6 - Location of Work Site
7 - Scam-Free Environment
8 - Paid Vacations
9 - Housing
10 - Medical Insurance
11 - Local Night & Social Life
12 - Politics of Destination Country
13 - Local Language
1 - Safety
2 - Stability of Work & Country
3.- Pollution & Health Hazards
4.- Salary
5 - Stability of Work & Country
6 - Location of Work Site
7 - Scam-Free Environment
8 - Paid Vacations
9 - Housing
10 - Medical Insurance
11 - Local Night & Social Life
12 - Politics of Destination Country
13 - Local Language
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Re: When teaching TEFL abroad, what are your priorities?
I think safety is the priority for me. Then is the salary. Some of my friends are teaching English in China, so I know this so well. For me I prefer teaching in Shanghai, Shanghai has ranked first in the "Amazing China - The Most Attractive Chinese Cities for ex-pats" for the past six years. And there are more opportunities and more options in there, and if I can get a good salary then I can live a high quality of life in Shanghai, which is really nice.