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I passed this around to my fellow teachers as a sort of a poll to find out who has sinned recently. Responses were quite comical.

Open office and a white board. Mind you I like being able to see everything in writing up on the wall. Helps me visualize the organizational chart. Though the school I'm in currently has forced me to think three dimensionally given the overlap of responsibilities flowing up and down the organization...

First, let me start off with a time-tested axiom - "You get what you pay for". In my experience, even in third world countries, the quality of teacher you can recruit and retain improves dramatically with pay scale. Sadly a large percentage of private institutes will pay terrible rates and demand m...

Does it have a comment section to elicit items they want to study? Often students won't speak up when you ask them but later on they might be more willing to write down topics and so forth they are interested in. I think a teacher assessment form is a damn good idea. I may make one up for myself thi...

I try to have a weekly teacher's meeting of the Foreign Teachers and we take turns proposing topics to discuss after the meeting. So we'll have a general meeting to cover the various odds and ends that come up and then after wards we'll take a quick break before having a focused discussion on a spec...

I work for a large chain company as well. I feel your pain. Do your time, get your merit badges, and depart for better pastures as soon as you finish your contract.

Hey all, I am being offered a job as the director of English at an institute in Ecuador geared toward gastronomy and hotel management. They want me to supervise the English teachers (not sure if they are native speakers or not), buy the appropriate materials, design the curriculum, etc... They also...