Not if you know where to put a comma and a question mark.
Can I just turn up and get a job like the old days?
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A room packed full of noisy kids with an attention span of a gnat. I dont know how they put up with it.
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
Who? The kids or the teacher?spitthedog wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:27 pmA room packed full of noisy kids with an attention span of a gnat. I dont know how they put up with it.
Guest (!FPG7VCUZ0w),
(My rant against general put downs of educators.)
You are quite correct that the barrier to entry for English language teaching can resemble an unclean, downwards sloping drain. True too, that basic competence hoists you well into the top 25%. However, it is also true, as Slow Delivery implied, that schools aren't begging for teachers at the moment. If the OP wants to get a job here, from wherever s/he happens to be, and to impress that employer enough that they supply the docs currently needed for a visa, then some real shine may well be required.
"Those that can, do... etc." Sure fine, but if you never had a teacher that inspired you, well that is your loss. They exist. Yes, even teaching English.
I'm not saying any schools on earth only hire inspiring teachers, and I admit Cambodian schools are famous for accepting anything breathing, but there is both skill and art to doing it very well.
Let's admit that at the moment the world has many, many paths leading to very shitty outcomes, and not so many that thread the needle and bring us, the majority on the planet, to an outcome we would desire for our great grandchildren. I can believe some uneducated farm kid might have important ideas for all off us, but I firmly believe we'll need some well educated folks to make it happen.
(My rant against general put downs of educators.)
You are quite correct that the barrier to entry for English language teaching can resemble an unclean, downwards sloping drain. True too, that basic competence hoists you well into the top 25%. However, it is also true, as Slow Delivery implied, that schools aren't begging for teachers at the moment. If the OP wants to get a job here, from wherever s/he happens to be, and to impress that employer enough that they supply the docs currently needed for a visa, then some real shine may well be required.
"Those that can, do... etc." Sure fine, but if you never had a teacher that inspired you, well that is your loss. They exist. Yes, even teaching English.
I'm not saying any schools on earth only hire inspiring teachers, and I admit Cambodian schools are famous for accepting anything breathing, but there is both skill and art to doing it very well.
Let's admit that at the moment the world has many, many paths leading to very shitty outcomes, and not so many that thread the needle and bring us, the majority on the planet, to an outcome we would desire for our great grandchildren. I can believe some uneducated farm kid might have important ideas for all off us, but I firmly believe we'll need some well educated folks to make it happen.
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