Posts Tagged ‘TEFL pay and conditions’

I’d love to believe that the collective efforts of TEFL bloggers and website owners were working towards building a tefl internet where a word or two on Google will be worth more than asking people you know for recommendations for TEFL qualifications, schools and countries to work in, and teaching techniques and materials to use. Unfortunately, I think the present and near future reality is not so ideal.

Starting with a simple and practical example, would you be better off spending 20 minutes searching on the Internet for suitable worksheets, or should you spend that time trawling through the teachers’ room bookshelves and asking other teachers? If my own experience and the people who arrive on my blogs looking for something that isn’t there are anything to go by, I’d leave that keyboard alone.

And now to the more complex question of trying to find out something about, for example, training with and/or working with TEFL International in Thailand. What are the chances that an Internet search will give you the information you need? The answer is clear… (more…)

Yup, according to the EL Gazette (which everyone now has the opportunity to sign up to read for free here), some TEFL teaching jobs in the UK are now under the official British poverty line. There is some hope, though- if from the other side of the world- as teachers for Kaplan in New Zealand got a pay rise after striking for just one day.

Other news of interest from this month’s edition:

- The wives of footballers to be forced to take an English test in the UK (lucky Posh and Becks went to the US then)

- Some schools in Saudi pay less than Italy

- Atlantic S.E.A.L in Cork aims to be the first school to specialize in students over 50