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avacado · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

I'm looking to teach next year in Guadalajara. My wife will be attending ITESM - Guadalajara and I would like to teach near there. Does anyone know of schools in that part of town that may hire me with these qualifications:

Currently I am a senior at a public university and will graduate with a BS in Anthropology, Spanish minor in May. I have worked as a Chemistry teaching assistant for two years, and currently work for a test preparation company as an MCAT tutor. I have plenty of experience tutoring non-English speaking children in reading and spelling, but no formal ESL teaching experience or teaching certificate.

MsMexico · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

You would actually make more money if you taught Spanish to retirees. There is a large gringo retirement community in Guadalajara and just to the south of Guad. at Lake Chapala. You can charge approx. $20 an hour which is far more than any school would pay you.

A few years back a friend of mine was a Professor at the University of Guadalajara, teaching Spanish and making about $4 an hour.

Something to consider

avacado · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

Is there language schools I could work for teaching Spanish or would I need to be a private tutor?

I would like to set up some of this before I arrive in July if possible

MsMexico · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6

You would make far more money as a private tutor. A friend taught Spanish at the University Of Guadalajara, full professor, and was paid approximately $4 an hour.

miss_betty · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Hermosillo, Mexico

have you contacted the prepatoria (high school) for ITESM? Sometimes they will hire without a TEFL.

are you a mexican teacher...what is your nationality. Tec pays a different scale for foreign teachers versus mexican. ( it is much higher for foreign)

saludos@!

FreddyM · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 180 Location: Mexico

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

While it sounds like discrimination, and it probably is, I'm sure they could justify the difference by factoring in relocation costs, education costs from other countries, incentives, etc, etc.

cwc · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 372

FreddyM, Mexico doesn�t know about political correctness. How is it discrimination to select one race over another when we are speaking of tacit knowledge? Would you learn to snow ski from a Cuban? Would you learn to speak Russian from a Brazilian? The standard ad usually asks for �female, good looking, single, 18-30�. I think it is refreshing to live in a country that doesn�t pretend that we are all the same. We have been brainwashed to think that an old person can do what a young person can. Ask an old person, they will tell you it isn�t true. The politically correct people tell us that a man and a woman have the same abilities. Bullsh-t!! No two humans have the same abilities. We are all more alike than we are different, but we are different. My school has soccer for boys and dance for girls. The sex roles are well defined. There are a lot fewer people confused with whether they should be on top or bottom. All of us married to Mexican women can tell you that well defined sex roles are better. The people here can�t fathom a man washing dishes or doing laundry. However, a man must give his wife money every Saturday or go to jail. I am certain some stupid Caucasian will try to change all that in a few years. cwc

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Actually, I think Mexicans themselves, and not 'Caucasians', have already written the laws to try to change things.