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MuscatGary
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 Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:55 am Post subject: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
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The Fifth Column
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| MuscatGary wrote: |
| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
For those of you fortunate enough to not have had to endure the Queen's English in private school, "Peripatetic" read "Itinerant"... |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| MuscatGary wrote: |
| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
wow... what with all the flying, when do you do any actual "teaching"? As someone who would preferably never see the inside of an airplane ever again, it sounds like it would get old very fast. Where is your home base on a job like this? You must be mostly living out of a suitcase...
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El Hobo
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Seems like some people are jelly but it sounds good to me.
So, how did you get it, how much does it pay and what's it like? |
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MuscatGary
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| MuscatGary wrote: |
| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
wow... what with all the flying, when do you do any actual "teaching"? As someone who would preferably never see the inside of an airplane ever again, it sounds like it would get old very fast. Where is your home base on a job like this? You must be mostly living out of a suitcase...
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HQ and therefore home base is Dubai, free flat there, hotels everywhere else... |
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MuscatGary
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| The Fifth Column wrote: |
| MuscatGary wrote: |
| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
For those of you fortunate enough to not have had to endure the Queen's English in private school, "Peripatetic" read "Itinerant"... |
Actually I went to a public school......in the British sense of public school. |
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MuscatGary
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| El Hobo wrote: |
Seems like some people are jelly but it sounds good to me.
So, how did you get it, how much does it pay and what's it like? |
Via a contact but I have the ICAO certificates to allow me to teach and examine in the aviation field. Basic salary is 25,000 dirhams a month plus 400 dirhams a day when out of the UAE plus performance related bonuses based on students passing their permit tests.
What's it like? Too soon to say. I've signed up for six months with an option to do six more and so on... There are breaks, a week coming up in October for Eid for example and I'm spending very little of my own money. |
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The Fifth Column
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:27 am Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| MuscatGary wrote: |
| The Fifth Column wrote: |
| MuscatGary wrote: |
| End of my first week in my new role as a peripatetic teacher of aviation English and I've been in Oman, Dubai and Qatar. Next week Muscat and Salalah then Dubai again. Has anybody else had this sort of gig? Looking forward to using my airmiles this year! |
For those of you fortunate enough to not have had to endure the Queen's English in private school, "Peripatetic" read "Itinerant"... |
Actually I went to a public school......in the British sense of public school. |
I also went to public schools...in the American sense of public schools...which lends a reason why my posts are, at times...nonsense... 
Congrats on the gig, I've got a mate doing an enviable gig of 30-on 30-off in EG... |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: Has anybody else worked as a peripatetic ME teacher? |
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| MuscatGary wrote: |
| Actually I went to a public school......in the British sense of public school. |
Which is a private school for those who can pay. This is one dialectal difference that never made sense to me. After all, the British "public school" intentionally excludes the vast unwashed public. 
Are you teaching or testing? ...or both? Interesting position... it must be short, very targeted courses. I've never heard of a similar posting in my years in the Gulf. (probably a type of job that isn't advertised... and is pretty uncommon anyway)
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Pikgitina
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Sounds amazing, MuscatGary!  |
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Dedicated
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| ..the British public school intentionally excludes the vast unwashed public... |
UK public schools originated from charity schools for the poor, and the term public indicates access to them is not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation or home location and they are subject to public management.
Whilst many of them today charge high fees, many of them offer scholarships and bursaries to working class pupils. |
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The Fifth Column
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VS wrote
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| ..the British public school intentionally excludes the vast unwashed public... |
UK public schools originated from charity schools for the poor, and the term public indicates access to them is not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation or home location and they are subject to public management.
Whilst many of them today charge high fees, many of them offer scholarships and bursaries to working class pupils. |
Well, hell! I learned something useful off of Dave's today! |
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veiledsentiments
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| UK public schools originated from charity schools for the poor, and the term public indicates access to them is not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation or home location and they are subject to public management. |
So where did the rich and Middle Class send their kids? What were they called? Or did they all use home tutors?
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The Fifth Column
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| Dedicated wrote: |
| UK public schools originated from charity schools for the poor, and the term public indicates access to them is not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation or home location and they are subject to public management. |
So where did the rich and Middle Class send their kids? What were they called? Or did they all use home tutors?
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Oh, I'm sure, the public schools. Even the King Faisal School had their "show paupers" from The Sudan and the like.
It made them feel very BIG... |
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veiledsentiments
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Oh yeah... we've all seen that in the movies and in books about the public schools in the UK. Not to mention the tales that I heard from fellow teachers who had attended them.
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