Can i Teach Sports in Taiwan?

Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if there were any jobs for foreigners in Taiwan Schools teaching sports.
I work part time as a soccer coach to children on weekends and during the week i work in an after school club teaching various sports to primary school children.
I have a FA football coaching qualification, a Boxing/personal coach certificate and a Y.M.C.A kids fitness qualification.
However i do not have a degree, and i know all asian countries seem to be obsessed with these pieces of paper.

Could i work in a school in Taiwan ? How would i apply for work there ? Or is there after school schemes were they need forieign teachers ?
Surely the kids would learn english from me too.

If anyone has any info on this please share it with me , thank you :slight_smile:

My first instinct when I read your post was to suggest that you could open up your own sports camp. Then it occurred to me that there is no real tradition of youth sports in Taiwan (I’m speaking to my own experience here so anyone who’s experience differs is more than welcome to correct me on this). My niece and her compatriots spend all day in shcool and then have tutoring well into the evening hours so I don’t know if there would even be time for sports.

Yes, you can teach PE at a school. It seems pretty strange though. Kids actually get a grade for PE here. I guess the PE teachers also coach some of the school sports teams.

just for reference here is a group of lads with FA coaching certificates that are coaching footy in Taipei: mfa.tw/news.php

thanks. i have read about the guys teaching football. iv already tried to message them. but i think there site must be under construction cause my emails keep coming back to me.

does anyone know a good contact for me ? or a way to contact the schools in taiwan ?

It might be difficult to convince them that exercising is sometime more useful for children than memorizing useless knowledge as:
Who was the 3th bitch of the second son of the 4th uncle in the fifth x dynasty?

Students have more time in the elementary school as in the high school, contact the first kind of school. A formal application is useless, try to meet teachers or better directors personally. Taiwan (as every developed country) really cares about papers. Make a translation of your certification which looks as a certification by a governmental organization. Taiwanese do not understand the Western education system.

I’m a bit offended by that remark. Perhaps you should do the time, effort, and work to get one of those pieces of paper and then come ask the question again. I don’t understand why you mention that you have some coaching qualifications (which I assume would also be a piece of paper), but then berate Asian society for having qualification structures much like we have in the West. Could you teach at a school in your own country with no university degree?

I’m a bit offended by that remark. Perhaps you should do the time, effort, and work to get one of those pieces of paper and then come ask the question again. I don’t understand why you mention that you have some coaching qualifications (which I assume would also be a piece of paper), but then berate Asian society for having qualification structures much like we have in the West. Could you teach at a school in your own country with no university degree?[/quote]

yeah of course i can teach here. i already teach in a primary school. my point is that u could be the best teacher in the world but have no degree, so no teaching job in asia. yet you could have a degree in coffee making and get a job teaching in asia.

Degrees are mostly obtained by people with enough money to support there studies for all them years. me i had to work as soon as i left school. in order to help my family pay rent. studying and partying for 6 years was not an option for me

[quote=“alan_m8”]thanks. I have read about the guys teaching football. iv already tried to message them. but I think there site must be under construction cause my emails keep coming back to me.

does anyone know a good contact for me ? or a way to contact the schools in taiwan ?[/quote]

They got your email. But they cannot offer you any positions.

I hope you know how to speak Mandarin. If you cannot speak Mandarin I don’t know how you plan to teach football in Taiwan.

I’m a bit offended by that remark. Perhaps you should do the time, effort, and work to get one of those pieces of paper and then come ask the question again. I don’t understand why you mention that you have some coaching qualifications (which I assume would also be a piece of paper), but then berate Asian society for having qualification structures much like we have in the West. Could you teach at a school in your own country with no university degree?[/quote]

yeah of course i can teach here. i already teach in a primary school. my point is that u could be the best teacher in the world but have no degree, so no teaching job in asia. yet you could have a degree in coffee making and get a job teaching in asia.

Degrees are mostly obtained by people with enough money to support there studies for all them years. me I had to work as soon as I left school. in order to help my family pay rent. studying and partying for 6 years was not an option for me[/quote]

I don’t know what country you are from but nothing could be further from the truth in the United States.

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Degrees are mostly obtained by people with enough money to support there studies for all them years.
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A large percentage of American students take educational loans. That is how they pay for their degrees not to mention that a large percentage of student have part time jobs. Some people actually work 30 hours a week and go to school at the same time.

I have had a lot more time to party since graduating. I am not only speaking from experience but can find statistical evidence on what percentage of American university students work.

brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm

You can check out this link. According to this study 57 percent of American students work during college.

So how do english teachers teach english in taiwan ? i dought very much they speak chinese.
i taught in japan for 2 years without speaking japanese.
football would be even easier

So how do english teachers teach english in taiwan ? i dought very much they speak chinese.
i taught in japan for 2 years without speaking japanese.
football would be even easier[/quote]
Because the classes in Chinese schools (apart from ESL) are (unsurprisingly) taught in the lingua franca.
My friend has a kid enrolled in the European School here and because of that connection, he used to do Saturday football coaching for the younger kids, but that was obviously an English-language school, and in any case, it was purely voluntary, which is not what you’re looking for, I don’t think.

Working & studying full-time ain’t fun… especially when you’re doing BOTH full-time, your parents live too close for you to get into ‘residence’ and earn too much for you to qualify for any sort of study allowance, and you can’t live with them or ask them for money. Add on to that an educational system where they teach you A,B,C & D in class and expect you to write an assignment about L, M & R (added to which all members of your group will be living at home and undertaking internships, and all your teacher’s contact hours will be during hours when you need to work and their e-mails aren’t particularly helpful (and not even very nice sometimes, no matter how polite the email you sent to them was…)). Add on to this that what you REALLY want to study you actually CAN’T study in the country because none of their courses are advanced enough (foreign language) and you already have a qualification that puts your skills at a higher level than say… 90% of university graduates? (but of course, is not recognised outside of Japan @.@;; ) … and this is why I’m doing university in Taiwan.

I’m doing uni because the field I want to get into is pretty focused on your bits of paper. I met a lady in uni in Australia who was doing it solely because she’d been in her field 20 years, was teaching the new recruits and realised that - even though they knew next to nothing - their salary was far, far higher than hers… because they had degrees.

Yes, a degree shows dedication & perserverance, if nothing else (and depending what and where you studied, sometimes it really doesn’t show much else). In my experience, though (3 unis, 2 countries) the students with the best marks are all living at home and working less than 16 hours a week.

Not begrudging them that - if you’re lucky, then you’re lucky; be grateful for it! - but lay off the footie coach for not setting much store by a degree. In the field he seems to have specialised in a degree qualification won’t actually teach him much about how to do his job, by the sounds of it, and he’s obviously gone out and gotten the qualifications he needs to be a professional, so fair dues to him.

To the OP: I’d recommend you try a Uni. As soon as we hit uni here we all get chucked into physical activity like you wouldn’t believe (P.E. is compulsory for the first 2 years at my school, and you need to run 3km before you can graduate. There’s also a bazillion sports clubs). They definitely won’t hire you full-time without a degree (rephrase: they almost certainly are very unlikely to hire you full-time without a degree) but they might be able to hire you to teach a few classes, and the sports clubs usually hire an outside teacher to teach, too. And I know that at my uni, at least, you can teach in English - I’m guessing the top tier unis will be the same (all the students need to at least understand English)

Thanks for all the advise.
i have written to a few schools.but yeah i will try the uni’s too.