about Go Teach

Go Teach was founded as a one-day TESOL workshop designed to introduce Canadians to the amazing opportunity that is teaching and travelling. Since 2002 hundreds of Canadians from coast to coast have participated in the workshop. Using the information and introductory training received in the workshops, participants have gone on to teach English as a foreign language around the world.

Running workshops across a country as large as Canada is no easy task. The reality of our country's immense geography has often meant turning away interested Canadians when on-site workshops proved unfeasible. That's why Go Teach has re-invented itself as a portal site for Canadians interested in teaching and travelling but unsure where or how to begin.

This website is dedicated to information and inspiration. Canadians are in demand worldwide! If you're a native speaker with a degree, English is your passport and this site is your ticket. If you don't have a degree there are still opportunities for you though the evolving reality of most teaching markets is that degrees (in anything!) are almost always requested if not required. In more and more cases, the same is true of TESOL certificates.

Bottom line? Before you spend thousands of dollars on a teacher training course, before you spend an entire year regretting a teaching position you shouldn't have taken, before you spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have seized the opportunity to teach and travel, spend a couple of minutes on the Go Teach website.

You've got nothing to lose and the world to gain!

why go teach?

Most Canadians don’t think the opportunity to teach and travel the world applies to them.

Why not?

Maybe it’s because our experience in this country tells us that ‘teachers’ have Bachelor of Education degrees and work in public schools. Or maybe it’s because we’ve been raised to believe that Canada is safe and the rest of the world tends not to be, that we’re better of here than out there.

Maybe not!

Welcome to the 21st century and the exploding opportunity to teach English and travel the world. Over the past fifty years English has emerged as the planet’s lingua franca, a truly global language used worldwide for business and travel, academia and diplomacy, education and entertainment – you name it!

And you speak it. Spoken English is what the world needs and Canadians are in demand around the world as a result. You may not know it, but sometime between the ages of two and five you mastered one of the most difficult languages in the world, a language which in the new global economy also happens to be a commodity.

Think about it: If you had a PhD in math or chemistry you still wouldn’t be as fluent or capable in your subject matter as you are in English. You could not be more of an expert in anything than you are in spoken English but you take if for granted because there are 25 million or so other "experts" here in Canada.

In countries around the world, however, that expertise is non-existent or lacking. True, there are teachers in public schools and universities who ably teach reading and writing but those teachers themselves often lack the ability to speak and fluently use the English language.

Why?

Listening to and speaking English is not easy -- for them. For you its second nature. You can produce a "th" sound without thinking, let alone deliberately manipulating your mouth. You can hear the difference between the words "lake" and "rake" and say them correctly as well. That’s why they need you – worldwide and in growing numbers. Because you can and they can’t, because they need it and you have it.

Go Teach English. It really is the opportunity of a lifetime, a gift you can use and share, a chance to make a difference. English can change your life and the lives of countless others, too.