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nectarine88
Joined: 22 Sep 2014
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Location: Portland, OR
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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:13 pm Post subject: Master's & Prior (Non-ESL) Teaching Exp. > Teach Onli |
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I pushing 50 years old and have a Master's in Adult Education with a Certificate in Distance Learning. I've taught undergraduate courses as an adjunct instructor at a major U.S. university for the past 8 years. The courses were on the topics of religion and career development (not ESL).
I have experience in business as both an entrepreneur and as a writing tutor in my university's business school.
I've been considering obtaining a TEFL or CELTA with the intention of teaching online or in my new home city of Portland, Oregon. I'm under no illusions that in-person teaching work in Portland would be easy to find (though do correct me if I'm wrong). I'm mainly interested in the following:
(1) Based on my assumed credentials (Master's in Adult Education, and let's say TEFL) and teaching experience (successful college teacher with NO experience teaching ESL), and business experience, how likely is it that I could find regular part-time (or possibly full-time) work as an online ESL instructor (e.g. for a school in China)? (Note: I'm NOT particularly interested in working online as a freelancer by finding my own students.)
(2) What kind of remuneration could I expect, based on my qualifications and experience, when starting out, AND after a year or two of experience in the field?
With much gratitude for anybody who cares to respond!
Doug |
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suphanburi
Joined: 20 Mar 2014
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Teaching EFL, especially by distance, is NOT like any other kind of teaching you have done. Take the CELTA.
The question is not whether you can find work ...
(more than easy enough to do with an MA and a decent internet connection to Asia - some countries have poor connectivity to the US)
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can you keep that work once you get it.
The pay sucks compared to anything you could get at home for part-time work (burger flippers make more) but if you were actually living IN China (where the average EFL wage is in the <$1000/month range) it would be a nice supplement.
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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Location: The real world
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Some discussion threads regarding teaching online:
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esl_prof
Joined: 30 Nov 2013
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Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| I'm under no illusions that in-person teaching work in Portland would be easy to find (though do correct me if I'm wrong). |
Doug,
In the event that you find you need to supplement your online teaching with some face-to-face teaching, your MA in adult ed plus TEFL certificate would likely get you some part-time hourly teaching work in one of the many local community ESL programs in Portland. In my U.S. city, such work generally pays around $22-29/hour. Also, most community colleges and university IEPs hire writing and ESL tutors to work with their ESL students, which would be another source of potential income. As full-time ESL jobs are few and far between here in the U.S., most of us cobble together a full-time living by working several part-time teaching jobs. It's not easy, but it can be done.
Please keep us posted on how things go for you. Sharing your experiences will be a big help to others who follow your footsteps in the future. [/quote] |
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