Let’s face it, teaching is bloody great and I can’t imagine ever wanting to leave this profession to do something else. Yep, the post title was an attention grabber; I’m not planning on leaving TEFL any time soon. Nevertheless, not everyone is me. While teaching can be a satisfying and stimulating career, it can also [...]
Alex Case has just written about graded readers and how to effectively review them, and it brought up something that has been a pet hate of mine for many years. I replied in some detail to his post, but I’ll go over the main problem I have with readers again here (thus plagiarizing myself).
Basically, I [...]
The ever wonderful Martin McMorrow has just shared the following statistics concerning the demographic profile of Celta candidates on the ELT World forum:
26% of candidates were over 40, 10% of these were over 50 and 2.5% over 60
68% of candidates had English as their first language and this means for 32% English is not [...]
I’m a dosser. I’m lazy. I procrastinate. Just ask Alex Case, who has been waiting for me to answer his interview questions for at least 6 months now. If I can get away with not doing something, I will. The one thing I truly have any energy for in life is the pursuit of avoiding [...]
Another phenomenal guest piece by Will Pearson, this time using his own handouthub.com as inspiration.
Intelligent handout matching, where an online database of TEFL/ESL handouts are matched for use with leading English course books, is where TEFL/ESL supplementation is heading in the future. This article highlights the case study of Handout Hub, which matches over one [...]
Thank you to the ever wonderful EFL Geek, from whom I’m blatantly stealing this…
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A fantastic guest piece on the perils of the TEFL job ad by Will Pearson:
Few professions in the world have such a unified online job market. Schools now see the Internet as the first place to advertise, while a great many teachers look for jobs, and are hired online. In this article we look frankly [...]
When you’ve been in the profession for a few years you might find yourself going for a big job in a location like the Gulf, and, more often than not, the actual selection process goes through a recruitment agency operating far away from your potential employer. You probably won’t want to screw up your chance [...]
One of the great fallacies of the twentieth century was that it was somehow wrong to be a pessimist. The idea that one is in the wrong if you view the proverbial glass as being half empty rather than half full brands me among the unfortunate majority of the populace who, rumour has it, take [...]
Sometimes there are questions that make you stop and think, ‘Wow, does that apply to me?‘ As soon as this thread started at the ELT World forum (thank you 31), I knew that it would result in some fairly emotive banter.
Personally, I never feel the need to lie, although I am surprised by the perception [...]
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