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jfurgers
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 Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:56 am Post subject: Teaching adults only |
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| My experience teaching ESL here in Texas at a community college has been with adults only..... never kids. When one moves to Mexico can you choose to teach only adults or do you have to teach both adults and kids? I'm not sure how I would do with kids. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| In Mexico City, it seems that you either teach only kids, in a prepa, high school, private college, etc, etc, or you teach only adults in a language school setting. Some language schools do mix kids in with the adults, but I've never seen it done with kids younger than 14 let's say. |
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jfurgers
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: teaching adults |
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| I'm curious since I've never taught kids before and the training I received was only for adults and I only teach working adults at the college here in Texas. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Then you'll be fine in DF. You might find EFL teaching to adults more thematic here than what you are used to, such as business, TOEFL, or working out of a Cambridge series. |
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jfurgers
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds good.
Thanks. |
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MELEE
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To be a really good kids teacher, I do think you need special training. In Japan my school gave me 40 hrs of kids training. That made a WORLD of difference!
I only teacher young adults now, but I work at a university... |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching adults only |
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| jfurgers wrote: |
| My experience teaching ESL here in Texas at a community college has been with adults only..... never kids. When one moves to Mexico can you choose to teach only adults or do you have to teach both adults and kids? I'm not sure how I would do with kids. |
In the States I'm certified K-12 and adult education for ESL . . . or I was before my state certification expired. (In the state where I taught, teacher certification had to be renewed every 5 years.) The last time I taught kids was over ten years ago. They about wore me out back then, so I can imagine what I'd be like with them now. At most but not all language schools in the city where I live, if newly hired teachers want full-time or close to full-time hours at one language school, they usually have to teach some kids classes and some adult classes. As they gain seniority, they have a better shot at being given their preferences. |
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