Todd Persaud - English Teaching By The Seat of Your Pants: How To Teach Without Technology And Other Conveniences

English Teaching by the Seat of Your Pants:

How to Teach Without Technology and Other Conveniences

By

Todd Persaud

Todd Persaud holds a BFA and MA. He has been published all over the internet on teaching English, including EFL Magazine and ESL Authority. He has taught in over 5 countries, and currently resides in Da Nang, Vietnam. He recently published his book about his experiences with teaching English overseas, available at stores near you! Click Here!

Putting a book together is a large undertaking. Its not always smooth sailing. It can be downright torrential and almost as destructive. Fortunately, other people can suffer with you or at least pat your back as you suffer. Ive had a TON of support from amazing individuals who have really helped me put this book together in ways that I couldnt even have imagined.

At the forefront of this project is my great friend James Creviston, who supplied the comedy to this piece. Without Jamess support, this would never have happened. Or at least it wouldnt have been funny or what you claim is funny. What do I know? So a great deal of gratitude goes to you, James, and your team at the Clean-Comedy Podcast!

Junette Bacus for being my sounding board and providing general assistance towards just about everything, both relating to this book and not relating to this book. Providing me with general lifestyle tips and faxing me receipts of prescription meds to stay sane, which is much better than my cousins drug dealer does for him.

To Jessa Abejo for taking what was an absolute mess and turning it into organized consumable lessons. Shes more of a teacher than I am, and thats why Im hoping she writes my next book!

To Elisha Dracoulis for polishing this book like it was nobodys business! It would not be as much of a shiny document without you. You polish, girl!

To Emilia Hasanova for her stellar eBook cover designs! She is a powerhouse talent and am very grateful that she discovered me... on the dark web where I was making deals with a Nigerian Prince and totally helpless.

To Aldrin Francisco for turning this into a real live eBook! One that actually has all the features of a convenient, turnable digital artifact of knowledge, almost like Im a professional too. You are a man of many talents, my friend!

To Alistair Wery, at Korean Horizons, for interviewing me for my initial job in Korea and trusting that I wasnt a homicidal maniac, which is a huge possibility this day in age, and for ultimately determining that the next step would be a background check just to make sure his instincts were true. Im so glad I passed, whew. I am forever indebted to you, more than you will ever know, although know one day I may need you as an alibi or character witness.

To the schools that took a chance on me in South Korea and providing me with the experience I needed to make my life even wilder and funnier than it already was (which is a challenge to do, indeed!).

To the International Teacher Training Organization (ITTO) for teaching me most of what I know about the English-teaching profession and sending me out into the world while praying for dear life that I didnt screw up royally and tarnish their brand. Way to take a chance on a possible bad review! Thanks guys!

To the numerous colleges that gave me certificates and insurmountable student loan debt (you must know who you are because I keep receiving Donate to Our School newsletters!).

To my dear parents once again for making my life possible and possibly humorous. You know what you did (as does anyone who knows human biology).

And finally, if I have overlooked you, dear Reader, and you also had a part to play in the development of this eBook, please take your omission as a mere indication of my premature Alzheimers. Please know that your efforts and help were deeply appreciated in this journey, and I apologize in advance for not including you. However, you have this book and a receipt for it so you contributed to a worthwhile project.

Much love to the English teachers of Asia and beyond! You are the pioneers of knowledge. You make it all happen in fantabulous ways!

Dear Reader,

Thank you for purchasing English Teaching by the Seat of Your Pants , your one stop resource for teaching and traveling around the world by hook or by crook, or as I like to call it, by fear and failure! If you are a novice teacher like I was, or part of the witness protection program, this little manual will prove very handy indeed, unless you really are in witness protection in which case defer to the FBI manual first!

If youre an aspiring English teacher, the value is even better. And if youre dead broke, theres no better field that I know of than becoming an English teacher and using your god given luck to help the fortunes of others. Luck might be the wrong word, maybe debt is better. Hey, if it worked for Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society? Am I right?

My goal is to get you to be able to know enough information that you will be able to teach anywhere in the world with any level of English proficiency, even if the only experience with teaching you have is your drunk roommate in college. Even if you yourself struggle with English as a Primary Language (EPL) or just English in general! Even if you have had no training, never went to college or high school, and find yourself in a cardboard box distributing candy canes after the holidays for the Salvation Army. No doubt still a noble way to earn a buck or two. Yes, this book could very well save your life, but lest I should toot my own horn prematurely, Im vain but nit that vain!

The activities that I am giving in this course are primarily for English teachers but that is not to say that these activities can't be applied to Math, Science or History. Seriously! You know those really awesome math teachers who only wanted to be loved by their students and as a token of this desire, allowed you to color by doing multiplication? Or thought Good Will Hunting would inspire you to do math? Yeah? Well, same difference. Many of these activities will still be valid.