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Perpetual Traveller · Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 651 Location: In the Kak, Japan

Well let's see now, last year I was a wrangler, the year before that I worked in a store that sells outdoor gear (part time while studying), I'm trained to be a white water rafting guide and occasionally I like to believe I could be a writer... Is there such a thing as career schizophrenia? Shocked

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comenius · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:18 am Post subject:

I taught for 5 years (1 each in Prague, Taipei and Istanbul, and 2 years in New York City). I got my MA in TESOL and became more and more fascinated with distance education via technology. Started a little website (anyone remember the The Comenius Group and the Virtual English Language Center with Fluency through Fables and The Weekly Idiom?) and ultimately drifted into pure technology, which is where I am now, working for a Fortune 500 company in an IT department. Because I'm certainly a few sandwiches short of a picnic, I'm also currently enrolled in a MBA program on top of my daily work and family life. I'm spending a lot of time these days trying to figure out how to get back into teaching of some sort, perhaps with a technology and business twist! Very Happy

bluffer · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:04 am Post subject:

lady z · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 39 Location: India

I work in the counseling/social work field. Currently I work with famililes that are trying to get their children back from the state, and i would like to get out of this line of work and switch to teaching english! I have a B.A. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Counseling. My only teaching experience up until now was working as a special ed. assistant to kids with autism a few years back, so next week i start as a volunteer tudor to refugees learning english, (i will have one student).

What keeps me going is the fact that in 10 months i am packing up and leaving to get certified and hopefully find a teaching job. Wish i had figured this out sooner!

Lynn · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 696 Location: in between

expatben · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:29 am Post subject:

I taught ESL for a breif while and now I am looking for something to do before going to Univrsity to become a history teacher. I going to work in a factory like I did before ESL and then travel-backpacking not ESL.

Cdaniels · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: Lynn How are you

Lynn, I still don't understand what you do that "Americans" might not like- lecture straight without taking questions or other input? I've heard "co-teaching" in the context of teaching children with disabilities: "Special education" tutors teaching in regular classes. I assume you mean something quite different. Confused

Actually, I might start a new thread, 'cause I'm curious what people who've done non-ESL teaching think of the differences/similarities.

Lynn · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 696 Location: in between

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

Lynn - simultaneously or one week on-one week off?

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

wouldn't it be easier to have smaller groups in different rooms?

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

wouldn't it be easier to have smaller groups in different rooms?

Here we sometimes switch groups at two-month intervals so that every class gets a native-speaker for half of the eight-month course.