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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| StephenNZ wrote: |
As for the part time hours.. I am happy to work only eat my share of the cake relative to the hours I work... I thought I had seen on the net many positions that only required 12 hours teaching.. But who knows,. maybe I will love my new career and will want to work all the hours possible.. we will see.. I have a completely open mind about how things will develop...
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That means twelve hours of contact time. Those jobs usually require you to be at the school all day. They uaually aren't conversation school jobs (or else they are only part time, and you wouldn't be able to support yourself off of the earnings) but are at high schools, universities etc. Conversation schools try to cram in as many classes while you are there that they can manage. The twelve contact hour jobs usually require you to prepare for the twelve hours of teaching yourself. the beginner rule is that to design lesson plan and create the materials or somehow get them normally takes two hours of prep for every hour of teaching. So twelve hours of teaching could/ should require up to twenty-four hours of prep time. 24 + 12 is 36, which is suddenly much more like a full time job (and gives you an idea of what people are often doing outside of classes).
Also, jobs with twelve hours of contact time tend to require degrees and certificates and often experience in actually teaching classes or teaching English language. |
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newgabe
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 18
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| would anyone know if you need a degree in turkey? |
have a look in the Turkey Forum, it's been discussed quite a bit there.
Reading this thread and others in this forum, and thinking generally about things: my age (53), experience (lots) likelihood I will have to work for a number of years yet (high) desire for a decent job not a sweatshop (not a backpacker anymore) the countries that I want to spend time in etc, I have been looking into going back to University (after 33 years) and getting a degree in Education. A local uni will give me 2 years credit to a degree based on my experience, and allow ESL work with refugees locally towards an educational project. And I could still go to somewhere on a short term contract to get experience.... a fruitful few day's thinking. Thanks everyone for their honest sharing, and amusing me in the process. |
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FuzzX
Joined: 14 Oct 2004
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I know Poland, China, Mexico and Japan will take you without a degree.
(you can work in japan on a holiday visa) |
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