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I got a new group two weeks ago and half of them are interested only in a Spanish coffee clatch. It's hard to believe these are adults paying to come to class 20 hours a week to visit in Spanish, sell Mary Kaye, answer cell phone calls and talk over their teacher in class. I made a seating chart to ...

How do you handle new students joining your class a month into the session? I've never had to deal with this before and am a bit worried! Do you just try to catch them up to the material already covered? Or send them back to do the first month? Or only admit people who already know all the first mon...

I'm feeling a bit down (I know, poor me!) and hope y'all have some good advice for me! I'm the ESL program coordinator and only instructor starting up a program at a technical/careers school. Everything is great cos I'm totally in charge of cirriculum, but I think no one understands anything about w...

I've been teaching ESL for 3 years and recently landed my first job stateside. I'd love to do a TEFL to improve my teaching, but have no idea which online courses are legit. What programs have a good reputation internationally? Has anyone heard of i-to-i? Any info appreciated.