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Merricat
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 Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 5:11 am Post subject: career-building first jobs? |
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Hi all,
I'm looking for advice on jobs/companies/countries that are welcoming to new teachers, but offer opportunities for professional development/are a good resume builder. I'd like to treat ESL as a career for the next 3-5 years (at least), so I don't just want to go somewhere interesting for a few months and earn a bit of money. I want to actually improve as a teacher and get a decent resume so I can move "up" the ladder of schools.
I'm 22, American, BA in psychology and linguistics, recently CELTA qualified. I have some previous ESL teaching experience, but not a full year in a foreign country, which is what many schools seem to want. (9 months of part-time volunteer teaching in America; 2 months of ESL teaching in Aktau, Kazakhstan.)
Currently I'm pursuing jobs with the TED schools in Turkey, Amideast in Morocco, and ACE in Australia. Do you have any other recommendations for countries that are a good "first job", or schools? |
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Glenski
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:26 am Post subject: Re: career-building first jobs? |
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| Merricat wrote: |
| I'm looking for advice on jobs/companies/countries that are welcoming to new teachers, but offer opportunities for professional development/are a good resume builder. |
Every experience is a career-builder.
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| I'd like to treat ESL as a career for the next 3-5 years (at least) |
Sorry, but that's not a career. It's a short-term exposure.
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I want to actually improve as a teacher and get a decent resume so I can move "up" the ladder of schools.
I'm 22, American, BA in psychology and linguistics, recently CELTA qualified. I have some previous ESL teaching experience, but not a full year in a foreign country, which is what many schools seem to want. (9 months of part-time volunteer teaching in America; 2 months of ESL teaching in Aktau, Kazakhstan.) |
Thanks for the background info. You are off to a start. In order to "move up" you're probably going to need more than a BA and a CELTA. Depends on where "up" is in your mind. University prof? Private teaching biz owner? I'd say that in general, there are 3 ways to move "up".
1) Get a master's or PhD.
2) Publish and/or present at conferences.
3) Attend workshops and teacher training courses.
Of course, life and teaching itself are both ways to gain experience and learn from it. Many don't look at what they do in order to improve themselves, though. They just do.
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| Do you have any other recommendations for countries that are a good "first job", or schools? |
JET programme ALT in Japan? |
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Tyrone Bonas
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 5:00 am Post subject: Re: career-building first jobs? |
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| Glenski wrote: |
1) Get a master's or PhD.
2) Publish and/or present at conferences.
3) Attend workshops and teacher training courses.
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I've been attending quite a few workshops here at the university in China I'm currently at.
I haven't asked anyone here, but would completion of these workshops actually get mentioned on my resume? I was just going to ask the teacher giving the workshops to write me a reference letter. |
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Glenski
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| What are the workshops about? Can't really say without knowing. If they are for professional development, but them on as supplemental training. If they were just informational, leave them off. |
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Tyrone Bonas
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a variety of topics
lesson planning
teaching grammar
teaching aims and objectives
activities, techniques, and strategies for the EFL classroom
Assessment types and tasks
pronunciation
etc.. |
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Glenski
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So, would you classify them as training sessions or more like informational with a little hands-on participation? CELTA is a training session.
I recently went to a 2-hr workshop on how to use statistics and how to plan a research project. I won't put that sort of thing on my resume. |
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Tyrone Bonas
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they are very hands on.
only about 10 people per session, and the teacher giving it has us participating (writing out sample lesson plans, activities) and discussing different ideas
but i don't believe we get a piece of paper that says we have completed or took part in these workshops, but like i mentioned i may just have her write me a reference letter |
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naturegirl321
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| I put the big workshops on my CV, I have I think, conferences mainly, but then have an excel worksheet full of all the conferences and workshops I've attended. I hsould probably put them into proper bibliograph format, right now just have; name, date, place, title, etc, but I can't be bothered to change 100+ items. |
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