Starting up a small English language school
Starting up a small English language school
What do you all think about a small ( me and a local ) language school. Nothing to big or expensive just a nice well run school where kids/adults can learn some good English language/grammar, pronunciation and puntuation.
1 classroom will suffice.
Does anyone know of a premises that would be suitable?
Cheers there may be a beer or 6 in it for any help on this, And may the sun shine on you and your loved ones.
Loz
1 classroom will suffice.
Does anyone know of a premises that would be suitable?
Cheers there may be a beer or 6 in it for any help on this, And may the sun shine on you and your loved ones.
Loz
Last edited by Loz on Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:45 am, edited 1 time in total.
If your spelling is any indication of your qualification as an English teacher, please don't consider opening a language school.Loz wrote:What do you all think about a small ( me and a local ) language school.
And the "May the sun shine" part makes me think you're a Nigerian.
whats wrong with that?,
It is grammatically correct!
And im not a Nigerian either. Maybe your just a cock who needs a/c in your hovel, On the tenth floor of your peasant accomodation to cool you rage!
It is grammatically correct!
And im not a Nigerian either. Maybe your just a cock who needs a/c in your hovel, On the tenth floor of your peasant accomodation to cool you rage!
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Giv me sex beers an iz will help youz wit you spelllings.
By the way, it is accoMModation!
TWIT.
By the way, it is accoMModation!
TWIT.
correct is it accommodation. sorry. and you can have 6 beers , been drinking Grolsh all afternoon. Many thanks for the correction,
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Good.Loz wrote:correct is it accommodation. sorry. and you can have 6 beers , been drinking Grolsh all afternoon. Many thanks for the correction,
I also noticed you wrote 'im', this needs the I capitalized, and an apostrophe between the letters (I'm). It is a truncation of 'I am'.
I don't want to be too much of a pedant, but that will be 12 Grolsh please.
Oh, and then there is 'whats'. That will be another 6. I'll let you off for the rest.
12 Grolsh and a free bottle opener, Plus i can show you a special dance which many believe makes me GOD, Why i hear you asK?
It's because i move in mysterious ways!. Glad so see that there are folk on this site who actually have a sense of humour Sorry nazi Alex that doe's not mean you. Cool down, take a breath and comeback to join the fun.
PS B.A (Hons)in Social Anthropology, BA in English lit and a PGCE with 6 years teaching in London and Rome doesn't make me a fool, You're quick to shoot down with a monsalbic retort. However as it's Grolsh day please come and join us for a virtual pint no hard feelings Please
It's because i move in mysterious ways!. Glad so see that there are folk on this site who actually have a sense of humour Sorry nazi Alex that doe's not mean you. Cool down, take a breath and comeback to join the fun.
PS B.A (Hons)in Social Anthropology, BA in English lit and a PGCE with 6 years teaching in London and Rome doesn't make me a fool, You're quick to shoot down with a monsalbic retort. However as it's Grolsh day please come and join us for a virtual pint no hard feelings Please
Hey Nasty Canasta, Do you teach in PP? As well as on here with me?
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You should think twice about it. You could be the teaching equivalent of those barangs who come here to 'start up a small bar/restaurant' despite no previous experience of doing so and fold after a few months with nothing to show for it except lingering debts.
How would you afford to keep it running? Which curriculum would you follow? Which qualifications would a Khmer student have by the end? How would it contrast/differ/ be better than the hundreds of 'small English language schools' that pepper the PP landscape? Which teaching material would you use? How high would the fees have to be in order to afford the rent (not to mention paying for your salaries)? If the fees are high, how will most Khmer student be able to afford them? And that's just the first few very basic questions.
I have the same background as you: BA+PGCE+ years of experience teaching in the UK and overseas and I would never ever consider opening a school. I was offered a director job in a small school in Nha Trang but I turned it down. If you are the director AND the owner then it's a recipe for disaster. There is a reason why schools are usually opened by established businesses. They have the know how and the capital. If you have neither of those, or even just one of those, then just keep on tutoring. It's a lot less stress and in the end it will be more profitable for you.
How would you afford to keep it running? Which curriculum would you follow? Which qualifications would a Khmer student have by the end? How would it contrast/differ/ be better than the hundreds of 'small English language schools' that pepper the PP landscape? Which teaching material would you use? How high would the fees have to be in order to afford the rent (not to mention paying for your salaries)? If the fees are high, how will most Khmer student be able to afford them? And that's just the first few very basic questions.
I have the same background as you: BA+PGCE+ years of experience teaching in the UK and overseas and I would never ever consider opening a school. I was offered a director job in a small school in Nha Trang but I turned it down. If you are the director AND the owner then it's a recipe for disaster. There is a reason why schools are usually opened by established businesses. They have the know how and the capital. If you have neither of those, or even just one of those, then just keep on tutoring. It's a lot less stress and in the end it will be more profitable for you.
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And if you're caught doing it on the side, no bureacratic approval etc., what is the standard fine to make it go away?
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How about a school with no curriculum. Just with a computer with a big monitor. Then just ask the kids. Hey, what do you want to learn about today ? Then search and print handout then discuss.
i'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way i want to
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Sounds like Wall Street in Thailand. I was once between jobs after a slight disagreement with my DOS, and I went there for an interview ro see me through until something better turned up. No classrooms. No whiteboards. No textbooks. Oasis' latest album playing as you walk through the place. Glass cubicles with white minions writing on the panes with markers as 2 or 3 young Thais sat in admiration of the farang in a tie.oxbowlarry wrote:How about a school with no curriculum. Just with a computer with a big monitor.
The Thai interviewer sat me down and looked at my qualifications, before furrowing her brow: "what is a CELTA?", so I explained.
Next question: "do you miss your family?" to which I replied that I had lived in Asia for quite a while and we speak on the phone quite often. Things were really getting low now and she was most perturbed to hear that I could eat spicey food, and was apoplectic when I asksed how the students were able to learn grammar/reading etc without any source of input from the teacher; "they study for one hour with the headphones on and read magazines and then are ready for class. Your job is to talk to them."
Without doubt the weirdest interview I've ever had. I don't think we even shook hands as I left her office. Thailand: truly the shitpit of EFL.
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