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Nate · Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Korea

www.languagecorps.com
www.worldteach.org
www.footprintsrecruiting.com

Hello, just wondering if anyone has heard of any of the above organizations.

I have read some things about the 2nd and 3rd but not of the first.

People ripped WorldTeach but I haven't read about experiences with them.

Someone got into Footprints but hasn't posted about it recently.

Thanks for your time.
Nate

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

chinagirl · Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 235 Location: United States

Long ago (1999), I was planning on going to Costa Rica with WorldTeach. Something about paying $5000 to volunteer didn't sit right with me either, so I managed to arrange a job in Ecuador on my own. I went and worked for a while, and afterwards managed to find a volunteer position by asking around in the city (Quito). The organization gave me room and board in exchange for my services.

I think that there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer if you look hard enough - you shouldn't have to pay. All that you are paying for is for administrative work. Myadvice for the brave is to just go somewhere and see what you can arranage for yourself. It won't work for everyone, but to my mind its a great way to go.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I don't want to pay to teach. I think it's rediculous.

Lanza-Armonia · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

Well, I recently had contacts with footprints and I can honestly say I didn't like the sound of them. I was contacted by them even when I never placed an app. with them. Then they said, after I replied to them, that they got my details from another recruiter.......dodgy dodgy dodgy....

Then, he had the nerve to tell me that "Your application will not be revisited"....because.....(long story short), I pointed this exact fact out! At this point I was so agitated <sp?> I wanted to wipe my grande anos with is cabeza!!!

These d1ckheads wind me up something Ironic!!!! We're trying to do a job and they're try to bend you over the table, tell you your feet don't like each other and take it like the young man I am..........Of course I flip the birdie or victory sign at this moment!!!

LA

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

They think that us run-of-the-mill EFL teachers can afford to go a year without pay AND cough up $5000 US?

Do they think we can just wave a magic wand and make the necessities of life fall from the sky?

Volunteer work is fine, but that's a steep sum to ask someone to pay.

Lanza-Armonia · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:53 am Post subject:

Why pay for teaching at all?

If I was recruiting teachers, I wouldn't expect them to pay me to have the job.....please, will someone explain this to me?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

" Be a bus driver. Enjoy the world ! See your country and others. Give me $5,000 and you can be a bus driver for 12 months."

Teaching is a job. Economics 101 says when you have a job THEY pay YOU.

Stay away from these and other programmes that reverse the natural order of things. Use your common sense.

Lanza-Armonia · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:12 am Post subject:

@S47 - I understand the concept of working and getting paid for it. But what I don't understand is that people actually pay for this cra-p!!!

Ben Glickman · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject:

In response to Lanza Armonia-

Footprints does not source teachers from any other recruiters-we recruit all of our own teachers directly. I assume this individual has us confused with another recruiter

The Red Baron · Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 183

Varvian · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 29 Location: New York, USA

I was checking out the language corps site and they want you to pay US$3,995 for their full service program, and airfare and personal expenses aren't included.

If I wanted to spend $4,000 I would take a TEFL certificate course in Eastern Europe and use the $1,000 or so I had left at the end of the month long course and use it to set myself up in a place in Eastern Europe. I wouldn't want to pay someone else the same amount to do it for me.

ex. http://www.itc-training.com

$1500 - tefl course
$600 - bargain airfare
$400 - approx a month's rent in Eastern Europe
$400 - spending money during the course
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$2900

I would still have $1100 to fall back on for whatever reason.

~Varvian

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Disclaimer: Above figures are approximate, but you get the point. And I don't mean to come off sounding harsh, but I was just shocked by what these people were asking.