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Margot73
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 Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject: What are some good and affordable MATESOL programs in NYC? |
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| I don't think I can afford the programs at Columbia or NYU. Does anyone have info at Hunter's program? What about City College or any of the other CUNY campuses? Are they acceptable? |
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vashdown2
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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How about doing the 2 summer MA at SIT in Vermont? Its quite close...and you can work full-time in NYC, or internationally for the one school year.
Price 24,000 USD |
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Chancellor
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Location: Ji'an, China - if you're willing to send me cigars, I accept donations :)
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| vashdown2 wrote: |
How about doing the 2 summer MA at SIT in Vermont? Its quite close...and you can work full-time in NYC, or internationally for the one school year.
Price 24,000 USD |
How do you figure that Vermont is "quite close" to New York City? New Jersey is "quite close," Connecticut is "quite close," and Pennsylvania is "quite close," but Vermont isn't. The southwest corner of Vermont is slightly northeast of Albany, NY; so, you're looking at more than two hours of driving just to get to the southwest corner of Vermont from New York City. It's about five hours to Montpelier, Vermont. |
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ls650
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Only 5 hours to drive? Sounds pretty close to me. |
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JZer
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| Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| and Pennsylvania is "quite close," |
Western PA is also 5-6 hours from New York City. Philadelphia is about 2 to two and a half hours from Philly. |
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Chancellor
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Ji'an, China - if you're willing to send me cigars, I accept donations :)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
| Only 5 hours to drive? Sounds pretty close to me. |
It's not something you'd want to do every day, though, is it? One could say that "quite close" is a subjective term (and probably very British too). There aren't too many Americans who would consider a five-hour drive each way to and from NYC to be "quite close" (that is, of course, not including the hour or more it might take to even get out of the city itself during rush hour). In terms of commuting, most Americans wouldn't consider the drive from NYC to Vermont "commuting distance" and wouldn't consider Vermont part of the NYC commuting area. |
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fraup
Joined: 27 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| Isn't there a program at the New School, down in Greenwich Village? I know they used to send people over to Poland for their teaching practicum work. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:38 am Post subject: |
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http://www.newschool.edu/matesol/
I checked this out a while back. It looks amazing but it's quite expensive. I can't remember exactly but it was something like $1000/credit and you need about 30 credits to graduate. |
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Margot73
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaramaz, yes that sounds about right. ~30K for the whole MA..quite expensive. For that cost, I would just as soon go to Columbia (Ivy league name recognition, if I ever decide to teach abroad, couldn't be a bad thing?) |
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fraup
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| If you have no prior teaching experience, check to see whether a particular MA program includes actual classroom teaching time (practice teaching/interning) as some, I hear, do not. You'd think it would make sense to have the MA TESOL students get practice by teaching some of the university's foreign students, but the latter group is usually considered the property of the "English Language Institute" or the "Applied Language Program," and are taught by part-timers who already HAVE their master's. |
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