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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 3110
Location: Seoul, South Korea and Myanmar for a bit
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| being a DOS holds zero interest for me. It's a business/admin role, not a teaching role. |
I think that the role of DOS depends a lot on where you happen to be working. I've been a DOS for a few years now, and feel no lack of classroom time. I enjoy the fact that it gives me a chance to teach under other circumstances, too. (In addition to teaching EFL students, I train teachers on our TESOL course, which is loads of fun.)
A lot of my time is spent on program design for ESP, though, which while it isn't classroom teaching, is intellectually stimulating for me! And I usually wind up doing at least some teaching on these programs, once they're up and running.
The actual day to day admin, hiring and scheduling teachers, finding subs, and dealing with pay details, is a fairly small part of my job, which I'm looking for ways to delegate to others. (any volunteers?)
I probably wouldn't want to move back into full time classroom teaching, though it's important to me to always do some of it. (How am I going to know what's going on, otherwise?) I wouldn't want to teach EFL at a university, either, simply due to the "sameness" that I've observed in most of these jobs. (Same sylabus, semester, after semester, after semester.) I'm much more interested in writing different sylabi for people in different areas.
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Justin |
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John Hall
Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Posts: 452
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
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| Administrators vs. teachers. The business of teaching vs. the joy of teaching. The TESOL world is divided up like this, but should not be that way, I think. I would like to try to have my own company that provides "executive English language training" to other companies, and I would like it to be both profitable and professional. And I am pretty sure that in the beginning it will have to be more professional than profitable in order for me to be happy with it. |
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