Teaching English in Poland? I am American and I have the CELTA certification.

so I was partially right that teaching may not fit into umowa o dzieło.

You're normally right, in my experience on here.

Merged: American couple looking for information on teaching in Poland.

My wife and I are both teachers, in the United States, and we are toying with the idea teaching abroad. Neither of us speak any Polish, yet, but we are willing to learn the language(Polish isn't available in most school, especially in Florida. I'm assuming American Sign Language and Spanish won't get us too far in Poland..). We are young, have paid off our house, and have no debt.

Our thought was to find somewhere where we could live abroad and teach for a few years, preferably a European country, and with both of us being of Polish decent, we thought we should look into it.

It seems like, at least on some of these forum threads, that teaching in some of the larger cities is unreasonable and of low pay. I'm not sure what the comparison of low pay in Poland is to low pay in Florida, but Florida is notorious for underpaying educators, and we live within our means and are happy with our lifestyle. We're young and don't need much, yet we aren't looking to live in poverty.

We enjoy small town life, but are definitely open to the idea of city living.

Are there specific towns that you may recommend?

Are there places you guys might recommend we start looking? i.e. towns, school districts (if you have them), universities

Are there websites that list job openings and such in Poland?

Any other information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

See https://polishforums.com/work/poland-teaching-english-american-celta-69474/#msg1421039

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You can contact schools online. Here are some adds: pl.jobrapido.com/?w=English%20teacher&fh=1
But you will have bigger chance writing from Poland. You will have disadvantage against British teachers, as you need work permit and they don't.

Merged: Can I get a job teaching in Warsaw with only a CELTA?

I'm a 19 year old student with American and Polish citizenship. I am a native English speaker. I've heard from multiple sources that if you want to teach English in Poland you need a CELTA. However, many sites I've been on say that you have to have an English degree. Is it possible to work with just a CELTA and where could I work?

Wysoki

You can either teach, or you can't - it's that simple really (but read up on the language and meths with tomes by Jeremy Harmer/Jim Scrivener and Michael Swan........)

I have a chap working with me. He doesn't have a degree. doesn't have the CELTA - but boy can he teach! I don't know whether it's his charisma or his patient but jolly demeanour, but companies love him. He turns down work - or more often than not doesn't bother responding to an enquiry. It's in a mining city in the south of Poland that rhymes with cat......

A one-off I suppose, as they always ask to see my certificates :(


Yes InWroc - I was working for a head office. When I started, they were at one level. When the contract finished they were at a higher level in terms of colloquial usage. (B2 learners). Job finished.

Sick of waiting for the Polish scum government to reform this unfair tax.

Anyway the umowa o dzielo said " Usługa Konsultacja" - so it's hard to prove anything either way shirley? I will leave my happy home in ole Polska if necessary rather than permit ZUS to ever steal from me again.

Poll tax all over again, innit?

Your options are drastically reduced by your age and the fact that you don't have a degree, especially in Warsaw. At 19, you are still considered a child in Poland, and nobody is going to give you serious work that pays more than peanuts, if that.

Your best bet is to stay in the States, get a decent education in a math-heavy field like petroleum engineering or actuarial sciences, get a few years of good experience, and then you'll be able to go wherever you want and earn more than ten times what the best paid English teachers in Poland make. Don't be a fool. Stay in school (and do math, math and more math). Every minute of math you do now will save you heaps of misery and poverty down the road.

All very commendable Dominic - apart from the fact that not all of us are cut out for a life in engineering. Anyway - the idea that you must have a degree in Poland is to do anything is of course largely true, but maybe the poster is "different" like my pal down sarf. He ( the American) has the gumption to want to come here for some reason..... a gap year wouldn't necessarily kill him would it?

At 19, this kid still has the choice between a highly paid, highly respected and highly rewarding STEM career, or endless years of flipping burgers or serving lattes for barely enough to afford to live in his folks' basement or garage.

As for a gap year, go for it: but use it to brush up on your math, physics, chemistry and biology. Don't fritter it away.

Excellent advice - get those qualifications while you're young, and get in the work-place and advertise yourself. It always amazes me how some Poles are 27 or 28, or even older, have 2 Masters degrees etc.... and yet haven't even started on a career path..........

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