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[avacado]

I'm looking to teach next year in Guadalajara. My wife will be attending ITESM - Guadalajara and I would like to teach near there. Does anyone know of schools in that part of town that may hire me with these qualifications:

Currently I am a senior at a public university and will graduate with a BS in Anthropology, Spanish minor in May. I have worked as a Chemistry teaching assistant for two years, and currently work for a test preparation company as an MCAT tutor. I have plenty of experience tutoring non-English speaking children in reading and spelling, but no formal ESL teaching experience or teaching certificate.

[MsMexico]

You would actually make more money if you taught Spanish to retirees. There is a large gringo retirement community in Guadalajara and just to the south of Guad. at Lake Chapala. You can charge approx. $20 an hour which is far more than any school would pay you.

A few years back a friend of mine was a Professor at the University of Guadalajara, teaching Spanish and making about $4 an hour.

Something to consider

[avacado]

Is there language schools I could work for teaching Spanish or would I need to be a private tutor?

I would like to set up some of this before I arrive in July if possible

[MsMexico]

You would make far more money as a private tutor. A friend taught Spanish at the University Of Guadalajara, full professor, and was paid approximately $4 an hour.

[miss_betty]

have you contacted the prepatoria (high school) for ITESM? Sometimes they will hire without a TEFL.

are you a mexican teacher...what is your nationality. Tec pays a different scale for foreign teachers versus mexican. ( it is much higher for foreign)

saludos@!

[FreddyM]

[Guy Courchesne]

While it sounds like discrimination, and it probably is, I'm sure they could justify the difference by factoring in relocation costs, education costs from other countries, incentives, etc, etc.

[cwc]

FreddyM, Mexico doesn�t know about political correctness. How is it discrimination to select one race over another when we are speaking of tacit knowledge? Would you learn to snow ski from a Cuban? Would you learn to speak Russian from a Brazilian? The standard ad usually asks for �female, good looking, single, 18-30�. I think it is refreshing to live in a country that doesn�t pretend that we are all the same. We have been brainwashed to think that an old person can do what a young person can. Ask an old person, they will tell you it isn�t true. The politically correct people tell us that a man and a woman have the same abilities. Bullsh-t!! No two humans have the same abilities. We are all more alike than we are different, but we are different. My school has soccer for boys and dance for girls. The sex roles are well defined. There are a lot fewer people confused with whether they should be on top or bottom. All of us married to Mexican women can tell you that well defined sex roles are better. The people here can�t fathom a man washing dishes or doing laundry. However, a man must give his wife money every Saturday or go to jail. I am certain some stupid Caucasian will try to change all that in a few years. cwc

[Guy Courchesne]

Actually, I think Mexicans themselves, and not 'Caucasians', have already written the laws to try to change things.

[cwc]

Guy, Did I say anything about denying anyone the chance to try? You had a knee-jerk reaction and jumped to a conclusion. I expected it. As you are fully aware, it is easy to take a quote out of context and alter the meaning. Why didn�t you use the part about nobody being the same, or the part that speaks about us being more alike than different? The truth is that we are all so trained to treat everyone as equals that we deny that anyone isn�t equal. I WAS speaking of physical, not mental abilities. Do women play against men in soccer or rugby. Thank you for proving that we Caucasions are too far gone for remedy. I am suprised that you couldn�t, as a writer, couldn�t see the sub-theme; NOBODY is equal. I agree that women are as qualified as any other person. If you would stop and think and read instead of being blinded by our scr-wed up culture, you would realize that my argument is that ALL humans are different. Read line 9 after Bullsh-t!! No generalizations can be made. There are non-native speakers that have better grammar than we do. I know a guy that is a champion at idioms. I think he was born in Sonora. Go back and read my post with a cool head. cwc

[Guy Courchesne]

I believe I did hit the sub-theme quite nicely, and I doubt you expected this response. The sub-theme is that you are dead wrong.

You speak of us but you don't speak of the individual, and therein lies the reason for my 'knee-jerk' response. You are right in that no generaliztion can be made, including the one that uses the current state of rugby or soccer in stating that women don't compete against men, physically. This doesn't preclude the chance for one or several women to try to do it, which is precisely what anti-discrimination laws are all about.

[guty]

But Guy, if you didn't have the time to see if the Brazillian 'displayed the correct aptitude' who would you be inclined to opt for?

[Guy Courchesne]

The person with the most experience.

[cwc]

Dishwasher guy, I didn�t say that men or women were better, just different. Please read my post again and see if you can understand it. Why is it so hard for you to understand that there is a difference between the sexes. Would you be happy if we were androgynous? How would you like it if your wife called the shots in your family? Would you be happy if she decided that the family should move? I am certain that your family is not a democracy. YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY. Somebody has to be in charge!!!! Even in same sex households there is a boss. Like it or not, we are all are different. cwc

[MELEE]