Should you teach ESL abroad?
Posted by TesolTeacher in Newsletter on June 10th, 2009
Would you like to make money?
Would you like to travel and see different countries?
Would you like to meet great people?
If you can answer yes to all of these three questions, you should consider a career in Teaching English (ESL).
ESL is a fantastic career that allows you many choices, experiences, and opportunities that aren’t available otherwise. Check through some of the resources and articles on this site, see what you can earn, learn, and so on.
Article: 5 Tips for your first class: How to conduct your first class!
Posted by TesolTeacher in Newsletter on June 3rd, 2009
It’s your first day in your new job as a TESOLTeacher, and you’re worried. What on earth do you do? This article provides five tips to help you prepare your first TESOL class as a TESOL instructor…
- 1. Learn your ESL students names
- 2. Relax, Smile, Speak
- 3. Don’t be too ambitious
- 4. Set the rules, tone and atmosphere
- 5. Assert your authority as the teacher
To read the entire article, just check the article directory for 5 Tips for your first class.
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Is English a mania? Could this be why everyone wants to learn it?
Posted by TesolTeacher in Newsletter on June 3rd, 2009
Youtube: Do you want to join the grammar police?
Posted by TesolTeacher in Newsletter on May 28th, 2009
If you choose to become a TESOL Teacher, this is a sample of what you will NOT be doing!
Tools for Tired TESOL Teachers: Small PCs for your Classroom?
Posted by TesolTeacher in Newsletter on May 21st, 2009
I’ve been following Asus since the launch of their Asus EEE PC 700 in 2007. The breadth and innovation of the company’s products underlines the ambitions of this company to reshape the PC (sans Apple) world by packaging the PC in a variety of new forms: UMPC, SETBOX style, Asus Radio, Video Gaming, …
While the video is in Chinese, you will get to see some great gadgets in the video: first up, of course, is the EBox. There isn’t the same level of interest in this device, but I believe it has a number of advantages that will see this become an extremely popular choice for all sorts of un (and under-) served markets: kids computing, older folks, family computing, simpler networking, classrooms, etc..
The price, the size, and the low power consumption make this a VERY attractive computer for the next generation of household computers. You could put one in EVERY classroom for a relatively inexpensive solution if you need a small language classroom with five or six of these machines; networked together, they’d be quite a cool and effective computer-skills teaching classroom.
Also, running Linux would make many aspects of maintenance relatively simple. Replacement would be the option in cases where the hard drive died, though! But at its current price, that might quite affordable! Have you considered using an EBOX for your classroom?
