NON NATIVE TEACHERS? Hi all! I am a non native ESL EFL teach...

Never mind. I am also a non-native teacher. You will find plenty of job offers, especially in Asia. Europe and Japan might be a difficult market, but it´s all possible. If you ever consider teaching in other countries in Asia, go to China. Possibilities here are almost endless...

Hi Evrı,m,
I worked in Japan for thirteen years and met lots of non-native English-speaking teachers. Willingness to communicate is the most looked-for quality anywhere.
Besides, with credentials like yours, no one could possibly have doubts about your qualifications :)
Best of luck! I hope to see you ´just go for it´!

ur skin has to b white, u wud get a lot of opportunities

If I were you I would join an EFL blogsite like if you are interested in Thailand. These sites allow you to contact individual teachers which is essential if you want the fine detail, and a personal contact is much better than this. I have actually made friends with a guy who I shall meet for a coffee when I arrive. He has emailed me lots of information on materials etc.
I have strong feelings about strings of qualifications for TEFL. It has become ridiculously out of hand. You don´t need a BA, MA, or any higher qualification to teach your own language. You should be looking for a DoS job not a teaching hack with lousy money and millions of teachers looking for the same job.

Uzma look at what and the way you are writing. I do not really see it helping your cause. To be taken seriously in any form or manner I suggest you present yourself as if you have an education. Granted, it is the computer and typing errors are easy but that is just ridiculous.

Evrim, if I were you, I´d find someone with a Masters Degree or even a Doctorate, and have an evaluation done of your phonetics, and speaking ability. You sure have some great qualifications. Get some written evaluations done, and add them to your resume. I taught in Japan with a High School Diploma. The key is to get in, and make every student wish you were there teacher in any school.

Good luck
Gary

This is more in response to Uzma´s thread than it is a suggestion for you. However, I truly hope that you don´t take her too seriously because if you feel that your color is a problem, what would anyone else think? Your lack of confidence in your abilities would surely show. It´s kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. I think, therefore I am. I am also not a white person and I have never thought that to be a personal problem. I have not experienced very much in the form of negativity because of it and you should not let it become a judgmental factor in your life either. I shudder to think that she is holding herself back with that type of thinking but it may be something that she should think about. If I were you, Evrim, I would use my abilities to obtain what I´m after in a positive vein and leave everything else to people who hold themselves back with negative thinking.

Hi Evrim, It´s easy to think this is a colour prejudice thing, my view is that employers put a lot of store in native English speakers because they have an intrinsic knowledge of the language learned from a tiny baby. Now, you probably have a far greater knowledge of English grammar than most native speakers because you learnt it. Most native speakers don´t know their adverbs from their prepositions but they speak naturally and know all the idioms, colloquial expressions and prepositions. That´s important but to some extent deluded because there are some pretty impenetrable local accents with native speakers. I often wonder what would happen if a teacher was employed online and arrived with an impenetrable Glaswegian accent. Lovely though the Scottish accent is, I think foreign learners would have difficulty.
I think Christopher´s post was spot on. If the Japanese are difficult stuff ´em. Why not research the Thailand International schools. They are the ´bees knees´ and pay very good money. They love higher qualifications and professional teachers. All the other teaching hacks would love to work for the International schools. It´s also nice and warm there! Good luck.