Comments on: Making money in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL/ESL/TESOL) /times/2009/12/making-money-in-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-teflesltesol/ The only online TEFL newspaper Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Marquis de Shady /times/2009/12/making-money-in-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-teflesltesol/comment-page-1/#comment-7319 Marquis de Shady Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:26:44 +0000 /times/?p=684#comment-7319 ...and dear Mr. Writer how exactly would you conduct a search for work in Saudi Arabia without making any contacts first? "First, purchase your camel." tefl.com is the ideal way to find jobs. For the uninitiated the highest ESL salaries are in Saudi Arabia and Oman at the moment. For Oman you don't need Celta or Tesol, just a Ba or Bsc in any subject. You can obtain a false degree online if you search around, same goes for celta or tesol certificates. The Saudi Embassy actually runs checks on qualifications though, so careful there. In Oman there are no checks. The actual work in most Gulf teaching jobs is incredibly repetative and simplistic, requires little intelligence or innovation. Just relax and take the money. …and dear Mr. Writer how exactly would you conduct a search for work in Saudi Arabia without making any contacts first? “First, purchase your camel.” tefl.com is the ideal way to find jobs.

For the uninitiated the highest ESL salaries are in Saudi Arabia and Oman at the moment. For Oman you don’t need Celta or Tesol, just a Ba or Bsc in any subject.

You can obtain a false degree online if you search around, same goes for celta or tesol certificates. The Saudi Embassy actually runs checks on qualifications though, so careful there. In Oman there are no checks.

The actual work in most Gulf teaching jobs is incredibly repetative and simplistic, requires little intelligence or innovation. Just relax and take the money.

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]]> By: Richard Fleming /times/2009/12/making-money-in-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-teflesltesol/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Richard Fleming Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:12:48 +0000 /times/?p=684#comment-797 You mentioned International House as being "a corporate language chain", state that it doesn't publish salaries online and that it "offers meagre salaries". None of this is true. International House is a group of independent language schools who each pay a yearly fee to the International House World Organization. In return for the right to use the IH name, each school has to provide language services (in whatever way and using whatever educational methods it sees fit) to high standards. These standards are regularly monitored by experienced inspectors, who are themselves educators and managers, and who assess methods and pedagogical ethos, staff satisfaction, management processes and so on. IH is not a chain, nor is it a franchise, and within the organization you will basically find a bit of everything, from highly successful, business-minded urban schools to tiny, community-based ones. What each school pays its staff is entirely up to its own management, and is not governed, controlled or even known by the world organization. What IH schools tend to have in common is a commitment to high educational standards, to teacher training and development (world leaders in CELTA and DELTA training, I believe, not to mention dozens of other in-house, high-quality courses), the free exchange of ideas in the many conferences and other events it organizes, and in the articles, course books and reference works its teachers, past and present, publish ( the major EFL publishers' catalogues invariably contain around a third of all books written or co-written by IH-connected people), and a "first school, then business" approach. Some teachers may have poor experiences or be poorly paid in the IH school they work at, but this is not my own experience, and certainly not the norm. The IH World site publishes ads for teachers which are placed by the individual schools. As per any small ads job section, some schools publish their salaries, while others don't. I appreciate your site and the intention behind the article, but you should be careful about making sweeping generalizations about organizations you appear to know little about. You mentioned International House as being “a corporate language chain”, state that it doesn’t publish salaries online and that it “offers meagre salaries”. None of this is true. International House is a group of independent language schools who each pay a yearly fee to the International House World Organization. In return for the right to use the IH name, each school has to provide language services (in whatever way and using whatever educational methods it sees fit) to high standards. These standards are regularly monitored by experienced inspectors, who are themselves educators and managers, and who assess methods and pedagogical ethos, staff satisfaction, management processes and so on. IH is not a chain, nor is it a franchise, and within the organization you will basically find a bit of everything, from highly successful, business-minded urban schools to tiny, community-based ones. What each school pays its staff is entirely up to its own management, and is not governed, controlled or even known by the world organization. What IH schools tend to have in common is a commitment to high educational standards, to teacher training and development (world leaders in CELTA and DELTA training, I believe, not to mention dozens of other in-house, high-quality courses), the free exchange of ideas in the many conferences and other events it organizes, and in the articles, course books and reference works its teachers, past and present, publish ( the major EFL publishers’ catalogues invariably contain around a third of all books written or co-written by IH-connected people), and a “first school, then business” approach.
Some teachers may have poor experiences or be poorly paid in the IH school they work at, but this is not my own experience, and certainly not the norm. The IH World site publishes ads for teachers which are placed by the individual schools. As per any small ads job section, some schools publish their salaries, while others don’t.
I appreciate your site and the intention behind the article, but you should be careful about making sweeping generalizations about organizations you appear to know little about.

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