by CambodianDevil » Fri Jan 27, 2017 7:27 pm
This may be informative to someone down the line looking for a job, so I appreciate the question. When I took the job, I had 5 classes for 1.5 hours per day with promise for more soon after if it worked out. I went through an observation from them, got hired and by the second week, I had 15 hours. Next month it will move to over 20 per week. The support for work permit, VISA, etc is basically, you're on your own where I work. Some places, like ACE, provide more support. I just bought a white board eraser because all my classrooms don't have one, so I got my own. Multimedia and technology are also lacking in many of these schools and teachers are expected to foot the bill for these items. You only get paid for actual teaching time and not for the lesson planning, so yeah, if you don't love it and it's not natural to you, it can be some work. I can usually prepare three classes for the day in one hour with the "teacher book" which has all the answers. The English is not terribly difficult and the grammar is basic. As far as hours spread out, my longest gap between classes is a couple of hours. I usually disappear into a teacher's lounge or library and get my stuff together for my next class, not a big deal. The syllabus is already provided and their unit tests and things are pre-scheduled for the entire school, so you just hop on they carry you in that regard. Anyway, hope that covered it for everyone. Teaching has been everything I expected with the exception that students could really care less about English. Their parents or the school or whoever are making them take the classes, so the motivation is not there. The good ones act up the most and the ones who struggle will never make eye contact or speak. It can seem like a lot of work for people who don't want to listen or even care. You just have to keep working on it. A lot of what you're saying is sinking in, they are just to shy or not confident enough to show it all the time.
This may be informative to someone down the line looking for a job, so I appreciate the question. When I took the job, I had 5 classes for 1.5 hours per day with promise for more soon after if it worked out. I went through an observation from them, got hired and by the second week, I had 15 hours. Next month it will move to over 20 per week. The support for work permit, VISA, etc is basically, you're on your own where I work. Some places, like ACE, provide more support. I just bought a white board eraser because all my classrooms don't have one, so I got my own. Multimedia and technology are also lacking in many of these schools and teachers are expected to foot the bill for these items. You only get paid for actual teaching time and not for the lesson planning, so yeah, if you don't love it and it's not natural to you, it can be some work. I can usually prepare three classes for the day in one hour with the "teacher book" which has all the answers. The English is not terribly difficult and the grammar is basic. As far as hours spread out, my longest gap between classes is a couple of hours. I usually disappear into a teacher's lounge or library and get my stuff together for my next class, not a big deal. The syllabus is already provided and their unit tests and things are pre-scheduled for the entire school, so you just hop on they carry you in that regard. Anyway, hope that covered it for everyone. Teaching has been everything I expected with the exception that students could really care less about English. Their parents or the school or whoever are making them take the classes, so the motivation is not there. The good ones act up the most and the ones who struggle will never make eye contact or speak. It can seem like a lot of work for people who don't want to listen or even care. You just have to keep working on it. A lot of what you're saying is sinking in, they are just to shy or not confident enough to show it all the time.