My son took the TOEFL test and instruction to learn to be an English Teacher in a foreign Country

However, to be taken seriously by schools in teaching English in another Country first you need a Bachelor's degree in almost anything in order to do this. However, you still need a passport to travel to wherever you are going to teach English and you need to do the research to know that you are going to be relatively safe wherever you go to teach English.

The primary places people from the U.S. go to teach English likely would be places like South Korea, Japan and China. Though there are English teachers from the U.S. in Europe there is likely much more competition for jobs in Europe than there would be in the Asian areas.

For example, there are more people that speak or write English in China than there are English speakers in the whole world outside of China. I cannot entirely explain this by the way but never the less it is true.

When I was in Austria for example, English is a second language there sort of like Germany and France likely as well. This has a lot to do with the Aftermath of World War II by the way and the Marshall plan of helping rebuild Germany and Austria and France and Japan after World war II ended by Americans and English Speaking people's of the world.

The U.S. was the ONLY large nation left standing not blown apart by World War II. Most of the infrastructure of China, Japan, Germany for example was gone from bombs and Battles from World war II.

So, the mainland of the U.S. was the only developed technologically evolved nation not to be pretty much destroyed by World WAr II.

For example, over 20 million Russians died in World war II mostly from starvation during the German invasion there which replicated what happened when Napoleon invaded Russia in some ways.

But, the conditions in South Korea have changed a lot since my son taught there and at least one leader of South Korea is now in Jail since then and so things have changed a lot. I'm not sure it is worthwhile or not to try teaching English there because of all the changes now.

You have to go where the opportunities actually are now today, not 10 years ago.