Depends where you go. Over here if you're a native english speaker that's really all you need. I had no training, no experience, and only and online TEFL course (which is completely useless for all practical purposes but helps on the resume). In places like Japan and Korea you need a degree and some kind of esl training course (TEFL, CELTA, TEOSL etc.) You can get an online certification or do an actual classroom course (which would probably be much more helpful), but for the most part, if you're a native english speaker and you've been to uni, you can usually get yourself sorted with a job pretty easily.
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