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JustinS
Joined: 21 May 2005
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Location: San Antonio
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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: Getting Started! |
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Hello everyone!
I�m posting here with the hope getting some information that will help point me in the right direction. I�m looking to try my hand at ESL teaching in order to enhance my Spanish, gain some experience living abroad and develop some contacts. I�m looking to jump start a career in International Commerce and/or International Development and I believe ESL teaching would be very beneficial to this end. I would appreciate any advice or feedback any could give me in this regard. Specifically, I�m looking for schools that would be good places to teach and also what would be my networking opportunities. I�m looking at the Monterrey area since I have several connections there. I do have a little teaching experience but not in the ESL area. Thanks Again! |
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Prof.Gringo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
Posts: 2236
Location: Dang Cong San Viet Nam Quang Vinh Muon Nam!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: Getting Started! |
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| JustinS wrote: |
Hello everyone!
I�m posting here with the hope getting some information that will help point me in the right direction. I�m looking to try my hand at ESL teaching in order to enhance my Spanish, gain some experience living abroad and develop some contacts. I�m looking to jump start a career in International Commerce and/or International Development and I believe ESL teaching would be very beneficial to this end. I would appreciate any advice or feedback any could give me in this regard. Specifically, I�m looking for schools that would be good places to teach and also what would be my networking opportunities. I�m looking at the Monterrey area since I have several connections there. I do have a little teaching experience but not in the ESL area. Thanks Again! |
I see you are in San Antonio. If you want to teach in Monterrey the best thing to do would be to just drive or take a bus down for a week or so. put your resume together and highlight any teaching or related experience. Got to language schools and apply to any other school that looks like it teaches English. See what happens. It's best to have a TEFL cert. from an actual school, but a on-line cert. could help you get your foot in the door. Many of the English institutes such as Interlingua, Harmon Hall, Quick Learning, Wall Street and Berlitz provide their own, in-house training program that can last up to a month with no pay.
BTW why have you waited almost 3 years to post since you joined? |
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JustinS
Joined: 21 May 2005
Posts: 2
Location: San Antonio
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Getting Started! |
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| I see you are in San Antonio. If you want to teach in Monterrey the best thing to do would be to just drive or take a bus down for a week or so. put your resume together and highlight any teaching or related experience. Got to language schools and apply to any other school that looks like it teaches English. See what happens. It's best to have a TEFL cert. from an actual school, but a on-line cert. could help you get your foot in the door. Many of the English institutes such as Interlingua, Harmon Hall, Quick Learning, Wall Street and Berlitz provide their own, in-house training program that can last up to a month with no pay. |
Thanks, I'm mostly likely going to end up doing something like that so this info helps. Would training for schools like interlingua be full time?
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| BTW why have you waited almost 3 years to post since you joined? |
Basically, I had this idea a few years ago so i signed for this board a few years ago while doing some research and i just never got around to making any posts. |
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guatetaliana
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Posts: 112
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, Mexico
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Getting Started! |
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| JustinS wrote: |
| Would training for schools like interlingua be full time? |
Interlingua in Monterrey does training at their location downtown from 12pm-6pm M-F. They pay about $500 pesos a week during training (kind of a joke, but better than nothing), and this lasts for about 3 and a half weeks. After that you can designate your availability and preferred location, and they honor this pretty well.
My husband, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law's girlfriend all teach with Interlingua, and they love it. They say the teachers are pretty laid-back, the environment is relaxing and fun to teach in, and the students are generally great to work with. My husband had no prior teaching experience, and felt very confident by his second full day of teaching there.
Teachers at all the Monterrey locations are required to wear uniforms as of last week - polos that teachers can buy for $60 pesos each.
The main complaint all my family members have about the place is that like many private language institutes, teachers are constantly pushed to get students to re-enroll.
My husband also was offered a job with QuickLearning but rejected it because the hours are demanding (60+ hours a week, mandatory, with no flexibility in scheduling) for only $15,000 pesos a month or so. Also QuickLearning does training in DF, regardless of where you ultimately plan to teach.
Harmon Hall seems to have a bad reputation with both students and teachers we've heard from. The pay may not be worth the conditions you put up with.
Just my 2 (or more) cents... |
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