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[jessn]

Hi, there is an ad for this school on the job forum. They give pretty clear details on what they expect, and their terms appear realistic. Has anyone in this forum worked there, or visited the place, to know if it's as described? I also wonder how far it is from where the monarchs congregate. Thanks

[MELEE]

Zamora is actually not where the Monarchs winter, but closer than most of Mexico is to that place! The state of Michoacan uses Monarch as a state symbol, it's the name of the soccer team and a common mofit. I haven't heard of this place before so I had a look at the ad. The thing I like about that ad is its very thorough. I think who ever they hire won't be able to claim that they didn't know what they were getting into. I probably would have taken this job myself 10 years ago.
What I don't like about that ad is TEACH 5 hours a day and 4 on alternate Saturdays!?! All the while CREATING and ORANIZING lesson plans for various ages and various levels and MAINTAIN ACCURATE RECORDS AND EVALUATIONS of your students progress. All this for only 5,000 pesos a month. Okay you do get free rent and ulitilies in a place you haven't seen with other people you don't know. But it sounds like an awful lot of work for the money. Teaching 5 hours a day is exhuasting, especially if some of those hours are kids classes. It's fine at one of those "method" chain schools where you are just delivering preplanned lessons. But it sounds like they want you to creat original lesson plans and write your own tests. There are professionals you dedicate more than 5 hours a day just to test development. I'm not saying this is terrible and you should apply, but I'd want more info. Do they use course books? Do they have the teacher's guides to these course books? What sort of supplemental materials do they have? What is their photo copy policy? Is it acceptable just to do what the teacher's book says and nothing more? Will you be submiting these lesson plans you create to them? How is job proformance elvaluated? How are the students evaluated? If you create a test that is easier than teacher X who is teaching the same level will that be a problem? Or are they just promoted when they pay for the next round of classes and the evaluations are just a formality?
AND I also ask this: Are you in any way related to the Cultural Ligua school in Zamora that used to always advertise on Dave's?

Good Luck, Zamora isn't so nice, but Michoacan is...

[hlamb]

[lozwich]

Wildly off topic, but love the new avatar Melee! Must have been a fabulous photographer who took that one!