How to deal with mixed level classes
Sooner or later, you’ll definitely come into contact with one of the biggest challenges of teaching English – mixed level classes. In reality, this is something that will always happen….
Read MoreSooner or later, you’ll definitely come into contact with one of the biggest challenges of teaching English – mixed level classes. In reality, this is something that will always happen….
Read MoreTeaching English for young learners usually just refers to classes for people who are under approximately thirteen years old, i.e. they are children. There is also a classification of very…
Read MoreIf you’re about to start teaching, or if you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ll probably have met those few people who are in what I call the ‘never kids’ camp. That means that the last group of learners they want to teach is kids. Adults or nothing. Maybe students, but probably not.
Read MoreIt’s quite hard to admit that even as an adult, you still get homesick. But it certainly happens, and after a year of living abroad I found myself in that exact situation. It was tricky because I knew that if I went home, then after a while I’d be back in the same routine and itching to get away again, but at the time it seemed like going home was the only thing that would satisfy me. I got stuck in a cycle of telling myself ‘I need to go back home, at least for a bit’. Have you felt the same? I bet that if you’ve been abroad for more than a few months you’ll have had this to varying degrees.
Read MoreTeachers, please listen. If you’re an old hand, I’d hope you don’t do any of these. If you’re a new recruit, well take this advice. If you’ve got a bit of common sense, most of these should seem obvious. Unfortunately, experience proves that some people don’t seem to think so.
Read MoreYou’ve landed your 1st job at a Primary School! Congrats, but now it’s time to get serious and sort out a lesson plan. Hopefully you’ve had a little experience with this in your TEFL Course. Your employer won’t be expecting something as detailed and in-depth as that (unless they have requested it) so simply writing a few notes will often sufficient.
Read MoreSo you’ve decided to embark on an ESL journey. Working in media sales just isn’t doing it for you anymore. You’re sick of spending twenty hours a week looking at memes, and the other twenty hours sweating over Excel spreadsheets. Great stuff.
Read MoreA day in a life of an ESL teacher in Cambodia has been quite conventional, excluding the longest lunch breaks you’ll ever have. I was teaching in one of the biggest International schools in Phnom Penh and that meant around 12 campuses, each teaching around 500 students of all ages. The native speakers are teaching English, the Filipinos, Science and Maths and Khmer were obviously teaching Khmer. Up to grade 5 we also had local T.A.’s to help us with translations and classroom management.
Read MoreOkay, so teachers of English as a foreign language are often the adventurous type – otherwise why would we spend our life going and living in new, unfamiliar and exotic places? It’s fair to say that most of us have a wanderlust and enjoy the thrill of a new environment.
But for some of us, we like to push it to extremes. So if you’re looking for somewhere totally, totally off the beaten track, with a little more risk than most, then here are three of the ‘edgiest’ TEFL destinations in the world. Note that we’re not including countries currently experiencing civil wars or conflicts, out of respect for the seriousness of the situation.
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