Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The new school

Well there are several things that are different, one of the main things being the schedule. It was kinda all over the place at EF some days I didn't have to go in until later in the evening. The schedule at the new school is pretty fixed, 5 hours of teaching a day but 8 office hours more or less. So a big full day of work, they do provide a living allowance but not an apartment, I am being allowed to stay with Tom for the rest of his contract but after he leaves I will have to find another place. There is a lot less paper work, you don't have to tell the students how they are doing or have meeting or anything like that. So overall more time being spent, more teaching in general, but less paperwork. So it's really a trade off, I go in later than Tom and get out Earlier almost every night of the week. Adults have very limited time to take classes, many of them take them during their lunch break at work, lots of our students work in the same building. Most of these prvt language institutes are in big office buldings. We are on the 38th floor with businesses above and below
whenever you change jobs here it's a big ordeal. Your foreign experts cert and residence permit is tied to your job. So whenever you change jobs or move you have to change all of that. It's a pain in the ass, other than that it's pretty much like teaching adults at ef ... oh and all the lessons are prepared for you but sometimes they are crap and you have to plan your own anyway.

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