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[Shaytess]

Yeah, my friends are working 14 and 16 hours a week and making more than they were working 35 hours at another unnamed school chain. I know they won't shut up about how much they love it there.

[thrifty]

It is a good hourly rate but it is still an hourly rate.

[scb222]

you can't get or keep good, qualified teachers if you don't treat them well. it's only a matter of time until they find something better and then leave. ALL schools, business oriented or education oriented, (sadly istanbul is full of the former) have an obligation to their teachers to make them enjoy working at their school which in turn is reflected in their work and their teaching which then rubs off on the students, creating more enrolments: happy teachers = happy students = happy management!!

[Sheikh Inal Ovar]

Yes the motivation of staff by management is an idea that has yet to filter down to TEFL

� while teachers are often expected to work miracles with their high-school or prep-program students ... much as alchemists with stones � there is seldom much in the way of motivating teachers ...

That is, of course, unless you count the caveman form of personnel management ... "light fire or me club you" �

[scb222]

hehe sadly too true!!

[thrifty]

A great man, Murat Yalva� M.A., once said at a teachers' meeting at a private "university:"

"Motivation means not teaching more than 25 hours a weeks and getting paid on the first of the month."