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evolving81
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Location: Tampa
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| Well, there always seems to be something to complain about for every job. If we all waited for a perfect job with a really high salary we might never find one. |
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MESL
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Are there many opportunities for making extra money? Either teaching private lessons or teaching more classes? |
This is a rural area, so there are no opportunities for freelancing, although a few foreign teachers go into town on weekends to work for language schools. If they don't hire enough teachers, you can get overtime, but the overtime rate at this school just isn't worth it.
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| Do you have Internet access in your apartment and is it reliable? Can you connect wirelessly in your apartment, teacher's computer room or library? |
We have Internet access in our room and it's relaible. One of the foreign teachers told me several weeks ago that the library has a special Internet room for foreigners, but I haven't had a chance to investigate this. After being here for 3 semesters, you'd think someone in the Foreign Affairs Office would have told us. Sorry, don't have info about WiFi.
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| No laundry facilities in apartments. |
Every room has a washing machine.
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| No photocopying facilties unless you want to pay to get copies. |
No, the school doesn't pay for copies. Yes, paying for your own copies is expensive. Since there's no technology in the classroom and since the textbooks are junk, I use a lot of handouts, especially in my writing classes and especially with low skilled students. I collect all my copies at the end of each lesson so I can use them the next semester or at my next school. If a class wants a copy of a handout, I loan one copy to the study monitor and the students pay for the copies. Our dorm computer room has a printer, but it's constantly out of ink. I don't print enough to justify buying a printer. One of the hazzards of using the copy store for printing is viruses.
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| The OP also says no curriculum, so it might be a nightmare for new teachers too. |
It's a two edged sword. The English Department chairman doesn't get involved with foreigners in any capacity whatsover. That means he doesn't equip us, but that also means he doesn't micromanage us. |
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evolving81
Joined: 04 May 2009
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Location: Tampa
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:19 am Post subject: |
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It's incredible to me that a school won't pay for photocopies. I can see if they limit the number or have rules about what you are copying (class-related materials only, etc) but teachers make handouts to help students. The school should understand that.
After all of that, it does sound like it would be an interesting challenge.  |
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MESL
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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No technology in the classroom:
As much tuition as private schools charge, especially since this one has been around for 15 years, and especially since the founder is an education visionary, you'd think they could afford a few computers and screens for the language classrooms. And the cost of Internet access in the classroom is nominal.
Students use computers, MP3s, mobile phone, digital cameras, electronic dictionaries, ect. But when they walk into a classroom, what does the school offer them? A blackboard and a textbook. And the administration urges us to make the lessons interesting and fun!
Meanwhile, the Foreign Affairs Officer won't let us use the movie rooms in our dorm for teaching. Meanwhile, the bulb in the English Corner movie room projector broke and we waited for months for a replacement. I finally wheeled one of the English Corner TVs into the movie room and used a DVD player instead of the projector. |
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nickpellatt
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry MESL. I posted the lack of laundry facilities as the FAQ's on their website suggested this was the case.
Ill stand corrected as you have first hand experience there. I dont know why Im poking my nose into this thread really, as this job defo wouldnt be for me anyway. |
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bradley
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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Location: China
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| I teach at another university which also does not pay for copies. They only copy final exams. |
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Howie
Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| I teach at another university which also does not pay for copies. They only copy final exams. |
The students contribute to a photocopy fund and will photocopy material for the teachers for free. If you insist on paying yourself, photocopies are 10/kuai.
On other subjects, teachers are basically free to teach what they want. The workload is light. You are paid on time. |
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