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LV83
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 Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 12:43 pm Post subject: General attitude of schools in Prague |
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| As I understand Prague is busting with schools and TEFLers wanting to work in this fairy tale town - how does this effect how language schools treat their staff? Do they often spit their staff out and view them as disposable objects or do they like keeping staff who are good teachers and encourage them to stay? |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Some of each, of course. You're usually fairly safe with the better-established (older) schools, but that's not black-and-white either. |
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LV83
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| What do people do who want to stay long term but don't have the money to get bettwr qualified etc. I can't imagine going freelance is very lucrative |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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You can make some steps up the ladder just by growing a local reputation and contacts (and language skills). There will be a limit, though, beyond which you'll simply have to find a way to upgrade quals. What do you have currently?
Freelance can be lucrative but it's not steady and requires the above local rep and contacts. |
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LV83
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you mean in terms of quals? BA (hons) TESOL - CELTA - DELTA (module 2) - IELTS examiner - 8 years experience. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| With that, you should be able to build up a reasonable living, though it may take some time, primarily because the job market's fairly saturated. Currently in the Czech Rep or just thinking of it? |
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LV83
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Thinking of it - getting tired of ELT and moving from place to place and wanna set up some roots.. I know CZK isn't worth much GBP but I wont be planning on using the money back ın London. BTW - how feasible is it for a freelancer to make 40k a month? How about through the summer, too? |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The only jobs I know that are much available at those rates for people without connections are the kiddie gigs (private 'international' schools that are becoming fairly popular). You could cobble together that much with a full time language school contract + privates, but it's not usually stable. Summer? Ha! Holidays are taken seriously here. |
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johncoan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Get some hours at the BC, supplement it with privates and some teacher training. You could manage 40k with all of that (I nearly did!). |
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