Another story today of someone who lost a healthy lot of money by paying an agent to find them work… and the agent did nothing. In today’s Guardian news paper is the sobering story of a teacher who paid £320 ($503 USD, €398) to an agency called ESL Job Finder […]
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Disney English is a chain of English schools in China operating under the aegis of the Walt Disney Company in the US. When the first schools opened a number of non-affiliated schools using the Disney name were shut down. The first school opened in Shanghai in 2008 and there are […]
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When you apply for a job teaching English, along with your TEFL/TESOL CV/Résumé you will also need to send a Cover Letter or email. Remember that the cover letter is the first and best chance to make a good impression so it should be the best you can create. A […]
Continue ReadingContact Hours for English Teachers
A contact hour is an hour actually spent in the classroom teaching and working with students. (It is also sometimes ironically referred to as an hour at the chalkface.) Many schools will employ TEFL teachers for, say, between 20 – 30 contact hours per week (this is moderately high; some […]
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If you are thinking of visiting a school in person to find work or maybe looking out for a few private lessons to supplement your income, it’s well worth getting a few business cards printed up for yourself. These days it costs very little (or even nothing) to have cards […]
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