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vallillo1983
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 Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject: Teaching Kids! |
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| hey, as i can see most jobs are teaching kids! Kids cover is a wide age range! basically, i want to work for Hess or a company like that! But i dnt want to teach UNDER 10s!!! So what are the chances, what's the age range normally of the kids at private langauge schools? |
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matchstick_man
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Location: Taiwan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| In my opinion, under 10s is the best age for you to feel valued as a teacher because they often tend to use the language in a useful context rather than just learn for passing the 'next test'. That is iff there are less than 15 kids crammed into the classroom/ Most language schools that teach kids have 8 -12 year olds. If you can get more than five Junior High students in a class to speak in English you've more or less worked a miracle. |
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wood
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching Kids! |
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| vallillo1983 wrote: |
| hey, as i can see most jobs are teaching kids! Kids cover is a wide age range! basically, i want to work for Hess or a company like that! But i dnt want to teach UNDER 10s!!! So what are the chances, what's the age range normally of the kids at private langauge schools? |
If you teach kids, you'll usually teach a variety of ages, including many
under ten. I'd say that looking at teaching children under age seven is a better way of thinking about it. That way your choices are either anqinbans,
buxibans but no kindergartens. If you refuse to teach, or express a desire
not to teach, children under ten you'll automatically exlude yourself from most (IMO) jobs teaching children. |
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Serious_Fun
Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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 nimen hao:
I have always loved working with younger students... the energy and fascination, the pride in achievement, and the general willingness to move forward. As matchstick_man alluded to, they can be more fun than a sleepy bunch of older students.
That doesn't mean that I have not always loved my older students as well...  |
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