TEFL International in Barcelona

Interesting Jobs in Thailand.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:53:07 +0100

Hi Everyone, I received these job offers through today and thought some of you might be interested. I've never been but by all accounts Thailand is a wonderful country, friendly people and FABULOUS food. I'd love to go...

Dear TEFL International Alumni and Friends,

We have the following English Teaching vacancies in Thailand

Should you wish to apply, please send your application (to include your CV/resume, and a recent photograph), for the attention of Anne Elkins, to recruitment@tefllife.com.

1. Full Time Native English Teacher 1 Position At Yasotorn Province.

Qualifications:

· Native English Speaker.

· Female, 22 – 40 years old.

· Bachelor’s degree or higher.

· Teaching English for Tutorial school at Yasotorn Province.

· Salary 30,000 Baht/month with accommodation.

· School provides Work permit, Visa and Teacher’s License.

· Starting date on 1^st January, 2010 to 30^th April, 2010 for one semester (1 year contract).

2. Full Time Native English Teacher 1 Position At Udonthani Province.
Qualifications:

· Native English Speaker.

· Male, 22 – 40 years old.

· Bachelor’s degree or higher.

· Teaching English for Secondary school level 1 – 3 and High School level 4 – 6 at Udonthani Province.

· Salary 25,000 Baht/month (included accommodation).

· The school provides Work permit, Visa and Teacher’s License.

· Starting immediately until 31^st March, 2010.

3. Full Time Native English Teacher 3 Position At Tak Province.

Qualifications:

· Native English Speaker.

· Male / Female , 22 – 40 years old.

· Bachelor’s degree or higher.

· Teaching English for Secondary school level 1 – 3 and High School level 4 – 6 at Tak Province.

· Salary 30,000 Baht/month (included accommodation).

· The school provides Work permit, Visa and Teacher’s License.

· Starting immediately until 31^st March, 2010.

Why have we started a blog?

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:17:05 +0100

We think one of the things which makes TEFL International in Barcelona different from other Teacher Training centres is the emphasis we place on DIALOGUE.

The classes we give in the mornings, the Observation of Teaching Practice, and the relationship between the Trainers and the Trainees, all revolve around TALKING, not one sided lecturing, but conversations and two sided exchanges of view.

We want our web site to reflect this fundamental idea. We want you, trainees past, present and future, to be able to contribute your ideas, your opinions and your experiences. We want you to have a voice on the website as you always do in the school itself.

So, Lisa has been dragged kicking and screaming into this century, you never know, she might even start using Facebook one day soon!!! facebook (Group: TEFL International Barcelona)

So please, lets hear from you. Anyone wanting to contribute an article please send it to info@teflinbcn.com it could be about anything, teaching, life in Barcelona, teaching elsewhere in the world, a great excursion you've been on, a restaurant you've found..........

We're all really excited, so now, let's hear from YOU!

Definitely Worth It

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:00:27 +0200

I recently just finished my course here in Barcelona and loved my experience. I´m definitely regretting not planning ahead in order to stay here longer to teach. The course itself was very helpful. Thank-you to all of my instructors for preparing me to teach English and for all of the information given about job searching. This course was definitely worth it and I am so glad that I did it in Barcelona. Being here when Spain won the WORLD CUP! Cant beat it. My advice to those thinking about doing the course and specifically here in Barcelona-its definitely worth it. For those that are going to do the course, keep up with the work load but enjoy yourself while you are here. Be careful with your BAGS!, and go to Montjuic to see the Fuente Monumental or Magic Fountain...and be on time for class. Adios Barcelona : (

Saying Hi and Bye

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:40:06 +0200

So, here´s my imput and a hope to a higher mark for the exam.

I would like to thank all the teaches for making my time at TEFL Barcelona such a great experience. I´ve had such a great time.

I´m really pleased that Luke (The directors son) is all better. I look forward to seeing him and Lisa again when I visit Sitges and also look forward to seeing the other teachers again soon (The school just has that feel where you can just keep coming back to say hi)

Keep up the good work TEFL Barcelona.

Best wishes and hugs

Oliver

Life After TEFL International Barcelona Graduation

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:54:42 +0200

I arrived like most of you in Barcelona excited, happy and a little scared. Upon completion of the TEFL International Barcelona course I began my job search confident, eager and ready to climb mountains. As most of you are aware searching for a job in a foreign country (especially without papers) is a touch daunting, however through the education I received from some really special people at TEFL International Barcelona I felt fully confident that I would land work and sure enough through a little luck and from the guidance of the staff I did. Within a month of completing the course I landed work teaching both Business English and teaching at Barcelona Plus (a new school that previously only offered Spanish, German and French lessons). Like any new job you are bound to have nerves but they quickly vanished once I realized that I truly knew what I was doing. I am 1 month into working here and I could not be happier. As most of you know moving to a new place can be taxing but if you do what needs to be done the nerves quickly vanish into a quite confidence that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. I do not know where the future lies, but today I am doing what I should have done a long time ago and thanks to the great folks at TEFL International Barcelona I am actually good at it. If you are thinking about taking the leap and boarding that plane for the unknown, close your eyes and press confirm for a future class at TEFL International Barcelona and sleep well.

Over and Out From Sunny Barcelona

Michael Thompson

What kind of TEFL graduate are you?

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:46:42 +0200

After graduation from TEFL International, what will you do with your time?

For some of our graduates, it means a time to travel around Europe for the first time and discover that Germany really does have the best beer in the world (except for maybe my hometown, Milwaukee), Amsterdam is much more than the red-light district and Paris is just as romantic as in the movies.

For quite a few, it means the first time to relax in four weeks. They use the days after graduation to really see Barcelona, to discover the madness and genius of Gaudí, to visit the Modern Art or Catalan Art museums or sign up for that Spanish or Catalan course. After 4 weeks of admiring the scenery of the inside of a classroom, it’s time to soak up some culture, not to mention sun.

For a sad few, the answer is going back home to start school or back to the 9-5 grind. While their time in Barcelona was an eye-opening experience, the draw of getting back to the comfort of friends and family is stronger than the pull to stay and tough out the first few months as a TEFL teacher abroad.

For the few, the motivated, it’s not time to rest yet. Some grads know that looking for work can often be more difficult than the work itself will be. While visiting schools and sending emails may sound a lot less enticing than a day at the beach, staying focused and doing at least something small towards employment every day is the best way to ensure many relaxed weekends on the beach during the sunny months to come. Those sangria and bravas are even going to taste better when you know you can afford them because you’ve got your 20 hours of classes sorted out.

The question is: Which type of graduate do you want to be? Perhaps a mix of all four? Balance is the key in Barcelona – enjoying yourself and finding enough work to keep from being stressed about finances are competing forces and it’s up to you to find the right amount of each during your first free weeks as certified TEFL teachers.

So stay motivated, grads. Stay positive and keep in contact with us; if we hear of a job, those who are eager and in constant communication with us usually get called first.

Good luck and I hope to see you at one of the Friday BTTA events, celebrating your new teaching job in Barcelona!

Jen

The most feared punctuation on earth!

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:28:37 +0100

Afraid to use semicolons? Think again.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

pequeno mas pequeno

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:07:50 +0100

quick note and supplement to the things i talked about in the last post..."dont hate, appreciate" the ironic comparison of vocab and definition - tell me, why is "abbreviation" such a long word while "big" is comprised of only 3 letters?

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how many do u recognise?...

lol lmao wtf omg nrg brb bf gf bff oj nb etc fyi tmi pda wywh jjk mia aka add2ThisList...

role reversal

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:31:58 +0100

I went to my Spanish Evening class last night in London and it was so much fun to be the one of the students again! I couldn't help noticing everything that we'd learnt as the lesson went on: ESA type activities, not speaking in English, and the teacher nominating students who spoke less. I was also slightly humbled as I had thought that I was Intermediate but now can quite easily assess myself as Elementary. My moment of glory came when I was put on the spot to tell the class what the Preterito Perfecto is, and I went on a bit about past actions that still have relevance in the present, score!

Realised also that I didn't get a chance to thank all the tutors at school and say bye - I thought you were all coming to the bar on the final night, but perhaps I missed you as I left at the stroke of midnight -not very Spanish! So thanks very very much to Lisa, Jane, Jamie, Luke and Alex for injecting so much personality into the lessons and making unriotous topics seem such a riot, hope to see you all when I soujourn in Barcelona again, (perhaps when I'm a lady of leisure).

Good luck with the class of February!

with love from chilly England Cai Jia xx

dont hate, appreciate...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:43:48 +0100

dont hate, appreciate...the many ironies of this language which is in such high demand

'in such high demand' hmmm, isnt it strange then, how stressful and time consuming it is looking for work in this field?...still searching and 'nada'...

if life consisted of only ESL and language, the variety of so called simple pleasures available would be a very narrow hallway...however laying on my new couch pondering whether it would be better to go to bed or just keep staring at the mesmerizing late night low quality tv programs on the living room high quality flat lcd screen tv with the option of pg13 light porn, fanatic religious preaching or televised psychic readings, i let my mind wander and began to wonder about this, that and the other...simple pleasures of the English language can be entertaining in the right (or wrong) state of mind...

and just focussing on vocab for now, leaving all the fun stuff for another night...1 eg of strange vocab is..."building" continuous form of a verb but if the action of constructing a building is already finished, shouldnt we call them "builts"...

grammatical illogic...

sometimes when im up late writing, i slip into an alternate state of consciousness somewhere between awake, asleep and dreaming that im awake while im still asleep...here i would make a reference to the twilight zone but as vocab often evolves and changes/loses its meaning and transforms in and out of slang while occasionally being set aside until political correctness of a word or phrase is in sight again, the term "twilight" has 'devolved' becoming instantly synonymous with a "Sweet Valley High" perversion of vampiric romance and puppy love...dragging one of my favorite genres through the mud in the process...brilliant authors such as Bram Stoker and Anne Rice have done amazing things with this concept...even such a specific aspect of the vast topic of supernatural legend and folklore holds immense potential for talented writers who need minimal inspiration to produce literature of equivalent calliber as "Dracula" and "The Vampire Chronicles" which regardless of personal taste are undoubtably great works of literature...

just having realized now that i spaced out and rambled off track again, ill get back to my point of reference...twilight, a state that late sleepless nights put me into...like a magic preposition that places me in a certain strange unknown point in space and time...

i imagine its similar to how people were mentally at the momental lack of clarity, coherence and creativity that spawned these examples of how weird and random our vocabulary can be...

firstly something easy, "pineapple" - 50% pine and 50% apple?...maybe 60/40 or 70/30...theres none of either...

now, how lazy was the person who decided to call the tool carpenters use to check if something is level a "level"?...would a little more effort and imagination have hurt?...maybe that person shouldve stuck to flipping burgers...

looking at another aspect with problematic potential, "blue" / "blew" / "flew" / "flowed"

how boring life would be if everything were easy-

"dont hate, appreciate" the luck we had in having people all along the spectrum of creativity and irrationality to come up with the piles of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions and all the sub-categories and literary devices that we get to enjoy teaching to our students...

pessimistically holding a positive outlook for the future, goodnight...

-conscious dreamer.