Most of the people you know and work with persevere in making dumb decisions that they know are clearly wrong. The worst thing is, you’re a person that someone knows and you’re just as guilty of doing stupid stuff in their eyes. The good news is that there is almost always a good reason why …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr
27
They keep us in a job #2
More from the folks who are in need of a little extra schooling. Can you spot the mistakes in each of these signs? Sphere: Related Content
Apr
23
6 pieces of Really poor job seeking advice that you should ignore and why
Here are six of my favorite pieces of piss poor job search advice, for you to read and ignore at all costs: 1. ‘Only send your resume via an online job ad or the school’s web site, anything else is a waste of time’ The job ad may ask you to do this, but that’s …
Apr
20
They keep us in a job #1
The folks who wrote these are in need of a little extra schooling. Can you spot the mistakes in each of these signs? Sphere: Related Content
Apr
19
6 simple reasons why your TEFL resume sucks
Another lunchtime chat with the boss, another great idea for a blog post. Although, technically speaking, she now only has to deal with formulaic online job applications, my boss has years of experience of weeding out rubbish CVs, the reasons she suggested why yours might be ending up in the garbage are sometimes startlingly simple. …
Apr
18
Bilingual babies get a head start before they can even talk
Here’s an interesting finding from the National Geographic: Even before they can babble a single word, babies in bilingual households may get a head start in life, according to a team of scientists in Italy. Rather than confusing babies, hearing more than one language gives newborns a mental boost, according to the new study, which …
Apr
17
Old post revisited: Was your Four-week TEFL Course Worth it?
This again is in reponse to an article on big Alex’s TEFL Tastic blog questioning the merits of doing the CELTA course. The respondents, of which I was the first, seem to agree that the author’s opinions need to be counterbalanced by looking at some of the benefits of doing such a course. In this …
Apr
16
10 job interview questions your TEFL interviewer should be asking… PART 2
Here’s the continuation of yesterday’s post: 5 – We expect teachers to work in the school for about 8 hours a day, taking into account lesson planning and meetings. Do you have a problem with that? Insight into the mind of the interviewer: Will you take the job seriously? Are you a workaholic, which can …
Apr
15
10 job interview questions your TEFL interviewer should be asking…
…and the answers you should be giving. Having had the rare opportunity to sit down and have lunch with my boss the other day, I took the chance to ask her how she went about choosing staff. What is the point behind the specific questions she ask at san interview, what is she trying to …
Apr
13
CLIL for dummies?
Big Alex Case has just published some great material for history, moving daringly into CLIL territory. What the Hell is CLIL, I hear you ask? Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL as it’s better known, is basically where a regular classroom subject, such as history, is taught in the target language rather than the …