ESL Lesson Plan

Great news letter - do you have any more information on working in Greece. I am currently working in Guangzhou china, and a beach somewhere is Greece sounds divine. Any more info would be much appreciated

DEAR MICHELLE ,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR E.MAIL .

I AM LOOKING FOR JOB NOT READING NEWS LETTERS , SO IF YOU HAVE E.MAIL ME UNLESS MERCY POUR VOUS .

POUR ECRIRE A MOI .

AVANCE VOUS MERCY
HUSSEIN

Great start on your website. I look forward to seeing more. Will you be posting jobs?

Congrats and keep it coming.

Thanks,

Jim

Thanks Michelle

Congratulations! I don't usually read a whole e newsletter when I get one but I read yours! I found it very informative and just enough info so I didn't lose interest. Perhaps I will follow up your Greek suggestion.

cheers
Narelle

I am English Teacher from Cameroon. I somuch wish to learn and teach people of other dinomnation of what I know. My ambition is to see the global world and make people have a comond education. I wish i could be given the opportunity to travel abroad and meet new pupils.

Thanks

Beatrice

I could not find the link to show where the positions are being offered, im very interested in Greece. thanks i like the sight. Creating a database relating to class activities might be a good idea, especially in relation to animals of the world. jeff

dear sir:
when i sent you a mail it was because i was looking for a job as a teacher of french and arabic language.i have experience in class for 5 years and was between 1997 and 1999 in a training center of teacher in which i got the basic ways to teach including the psycology of the students and how to make difference between levels.we were using the capacities and the abilities then we gave the suffisance.i am living now in denamark so which to hear from you sooner.
sincerly yours,
yassine zakari

Michelle,
Nice Newsletter. It's well laid out and it's also fun to read. I look forward to the next one.

I teach in a Call Center in Chennai,India. So, if anyone wants to know what it's like in southern India.....It's interesting and well....sweaty. :-)

Thanks,
Gary Harwell

Hello Michelle

I like your letters but the link to get here is rather misleading 'ESL Lesson Plans'. I imagine you will get new teachers hoping to see lesson plans but they are going to be disappointed. Therefore, it would useful to see a how to prepare a lesson plan.

Very good Michelle. Keep them coming.

Greetings from China.

Will P.

I think more online ESL jobs should be advertised, so persons like myself, will have money to travel and teach overseas.

Hello Michelle,

Thank you for the informative Newsletter. I am very interested in learning how to become a certified ESL Teacher. I live in the metro Atlanta, GA. area.

I hold a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in History/Business and I am working toward to moving to Austria within the next year. I have had wonderful opportunities to travel in South America, North Africa, the Middle East, The Balkan Penninsula, and Central Europe.

Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your advice and help.

Best,
Michael

Hi Michelle,

Do you have any ideas as to how to become employed as a teacher in Greece? I have been responding to ads through the TEFL Jobs postings site and they all have indicated that unless I have an EU residence and passport I am not elegible to work as a USA national in Greece Please advise if you have any ideas!

Also will you be doing any job postings in the newsletter?

Thanks,

Kachina

I like your easy-on-the-eyes layout. Will you include a jobs wanted section like Dave's ESL Cafe site in the future??

Hey, I like this. Keep your info short and sweet as all of us are pressed for time. Would be nice if you can include links to other places to get more in-depth info on whatever the subject is. In this way we can bookmark something and come back to it later.

How 'bout some interviewing tips or right and wrong examples so we know what to do when interviewing in another country. Let us know what the hiring people want to hear:-)

What a great site. It was easy to follow. I'm like a giant sponge at present just absorbing everything that comes my way. I gained Cert TESOL in 2003 but my time is not right yet to venture out. Have a health issue to deal with first. Ahhhhhhh but when it is dealt with, the sponge longs to be squeezed out. Appreciated the blurb about Greece as that's the area I'd like to go to, and the north Balkans.

Hello, I want to know if you know of any ESL courses in Chicago. I am preparing to take one online, but all institutes don't accept certification from online courses, so I'd like to cover my tracks all around.

Mesi

The new format is friendly and attractive. Good for encouraging the less confident.

A serious suggestion that I consider to be of great importance in ESL around the world would be to bring the ethical responsibilities of the educational professional to the attention of prospective teachers. Your presentation in particular is going to appeal to the hedonist in us all, so a reminder of the professional commitment necessary to prevent the EFL / ESL industry becoming more exploitative might be appropriate. This applies more and more the further job opportunities get away from our strict and stressful home countries ... There is often no idea of standards of English or professional responsibility once away from Europe and America. The poor peoples of the world need good, honest English teachers who care about the progress of students and their communities as much as their own income and lifestyle.

Hello Michelle,

A very inspiring/informative newsletter.

I would like your opinion please -

Now well over 50, travelled a lot in my youth, I am an experienced translator and consider teaching in order to travel again. Am I too old to start working on a teaching qualification ?

Regards,

Kathleen.

sir,
I will like to from you if you does not employ nigerians. i have some of your newsletters and i fill happy to this informations.let me knows where with your aid to get a job .
thanks
d.n. egba

Hi Michelle,

I am pretty new to the ESL programs but have been reading a bit. I follow your posts (emails) and was wondering if you could offer a suggestion or two.

Questions:

1. If I only speak english, how do I communicate with folks who speak no english?

2. I was looking at the TEFL training in Poland which is offered from one vendor. Do you know much about these folks and is that a good place to go to learn?

3. If I decide to do this, realistically, how long does it take for training and how easy can one find jobs?

4. If you were doing this, where would you go for training and who would you use?

Well there a lots of questions I have but won't bother you with them right now. I also appreciate you taking the time to give me a few answers and suggestions.

Thanks,

Chuck

Hi Michelle,

It is very nice that you guys are thinking about us; the ESL teachers. I am down here in Brazil teaching english and everything that has been said about the country is true. But, it wasn´t very easy finding good places to teach. That is why I am writing to you, about your article on Teaching in Greece; How can we find out where to look for those positions? Is there any official office we could write to? What is the best way to go around looking for teaching jobs in Greece? I guess what I am trying to say is, when we read about wonderful places to teach and great experiences waiting for us, on this kind of news letter, it would be great if some more info could be incluided too. I know that you are not there to be our guarding angel, but how about a little push? - Just to get us off the ground. Over all, I really like receiving your input. Keep it coming.

Thanks for all you are doing.

Carlo

I am a teacher having an MA in general linguistics. I wish to get a Ph.D. in teaching in a good university in Canada or Australia where I can also find a good job to support myself. I wonder if you can help me.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

April 20, 2005

Today is the first day I came upon your site; it has some useful information.

There is something I would like to comment on. It seems that the ESL job websites I've seen show more positions abroad than in the U.S. I live in N.Y.C., and for now it's not financially feasible for me to up and relocate, as much as I love to travel. It would be nice if there were some list of ESL openings in the N.Y. area.

One more comment: any ideas on how someone with a 20-plus year background in ESL can find something in the corporate sector, preferably something that pays a bit more decently than the peanuts many dedicated teachers like myself have had to live on? Thank you for reading this. Hope to hear from you.

Sylvia G.

I really enjoyed the new look efl magasine in e-mail form. Things can get a bit lonely in distant lands (the frozen forests of Finland in my case) & it's great to get some useful information & inspiration.

I particularly enjoyed the procastination solution (I shall try it henceforth!)

Looking forward to the next,

Henry Rawstorne, Tefl-trained, Finland

I enjoyed this first issue. I will refer to other ESL teachers I work with. I look forward to the next one.

Hi Michelle!

I'm still new to this site but I find it so informative. I strongly agree on what you said that teaching is not really an adventure, teaching is a task of noble missions. I have been a teacher for 16 years already. With my experience, teaching is a matter of knowing the individual differences and needs of the students. As a teacher, you are there to know what to be given, to be changed and to be developed in them to become useful individuals and citizens.

Teaching is a great responsibility, not only filling up the minds with knowledge and skills but most importantly molding character and building future. I believe your site is one tool that can put or remind these in the minds of the teachers who are already in the field and those who are prospecting to become teachers.

Keep it up. I will be looking forward for more information and ideas to improve me more in my teaching.

I am a female Nigerian English teacher.I really enjoy reading your newsletter.

If am to ask this question that has been bordering me I hope you will give me a useful suggestion.

What way can I teach my students to differences between clauses and phrases?

Khadijat

hello!
first of all, i wanna say thank you for the email.
i've been a subscriber since december, since then, i tried so hard to land a job as an esl teacher. specifically in asia, because i'm asian...
i've been teaching korean students here in my own country, but i want to go to another country and try my luck!

at first, i wanna give up because there's no positive response. i told myself that maybe, my nationality isn't to attractive to employers, but i didn't give up...

with the help of your prayers, in about a month or so... i'll be leaving my motherland to go to another country to practice my profession, that is... as an ESL teacher!

i'm writing this to encourage people, to never give up! never give in...
there's a very nice adage i remember...
"never let the fear of striking out,keeps you from playing the game."
it's telling us that there's always hope!
so follow your dreams and continue dreaming...
one day... you'll be seeing yourself smiling...
because you were able to achieve your dream.

thanks to you...
i'll be forever thankful for it...
i'll be writing to you again,hopefully, when i'm already there! in the other country...

pray for me! (",)

Hi Michelle

Thanks for the newsletter. I've used it extensively for lessons and info. Please keep it coming. I'd also like a jobs wanted section if possible. I'm thinking of teaching in South America or Greece next year.

Dear Michelle,

Very interesting newsletter. Thank you.

I was interested to read your remarks about "older teachers"
Most schools are managed by the owner and most owners have little commercial management experience apart from their own business. They are "frightened" to employ older teachers because they know that older teachers are more likely to ask why something is required whilst younger teachers will do as they are asked without asking questions. For inexperienced managers younger teachers are easier to manage.

Dear Michelle,

I really enjoy your newsletter. I always find something interesting or useful. FYI, I`m teaching in the countryside of Japan with the JET Programme and am looking to move to Tokyo. It seems most Tokyo public schools want certified teachers. The conversation (juku/eikawa) schools don`t care.

Keep up the great work!

Hello Michelle,
Greetings from Istanbul. Thanks for the helpful and interesting information.

Hi,
I'm wondering why Japanese English schools have not changed their pay structure for the last 10 years or so: 250, 000 yen per month or less; some even demand that teachers teach another language or teach babies from 18 months to 75 y.o. adults...yet the pay does not change, work hours are long, holidays are short. Very seldom do foreigners get a bonus while their own teachers get bonuses 2x a year! I advise teachers who want to teach in Japan to take note of paying rent,telephone, TV connection,gas, electricity, health insurance, tax,grocery,etc. you'll be lucky to save any. Consider your contract first.
Once bitten, twice shy, good luck Faye

Dear Michelle,
I am actually glad for the initiative you got to help teachers all over the world to grasp opportunities to meet and share hundreds of experience from different parts of the world, especially in teaching of English.I am from DRC
( Democratic Republic of Congo).English Teachers in our Country haven't a standard lesson plans. There are sorts of them depending on the school the teacher is from. This poses a problem, a big one is assessing a lesson from one school or another.I wonder whether you could help us from this theoretical point of view. But, what I want to ask is that, is there a standard English lesson plan? because in some schools in DRC we are forced to prepare an English lesson on a French printed sheet so that the one who can come to visit or observe the class can't have any problem in case he's not keen on English.I am not happy at all with that way of doing things. I'm looking foreward to hearing from you sooner.

Hello! I like you site man!

Martino

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