Articles tagged ‘Contact Hours’

Five Ways To Avoid Being Overworked, From Yahoo’s Penelope Trunk

By Katie | August 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

I’m becoming a fan of the career advice of Yahoo’s Penelope Trunk. Her advice seems to draw a great deal of angry criticism as comments, which may just be par for the course when lots of people read it and have the opportunity to post comments. Or it may be because her advice [...]

 

Notes On A Job Post (9)

By Katie | March 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

I’ve omitted details so that this ad is not immediately identifiable. The purpose of this is to share the thoughts of an experienced teacher (me) - who’s found her own jobs before - on a random job ad. Of course you should investigate any opportunity you’re interested in thoroughly yourself - I don’t mean to [...]

 

One More Reason To Get A TEFL Certificate

By Katie | February 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In Is A TEFL certificate “enough”? I explained my thoughts on this, specifically that a one-month intensive course, no matter how good it is, is not going to make or break a teacher. But here’s the thing: language school-type teaching is usually quite different from the teaching most of us experienced in our foreign [...]