Valentines Day is just around the corner, let's write a love letter to TEFL, what do we love about TEFLing?
Valentines Day is just around the corner, let's write a love letter to TEFL, what do we love about TEFLing?
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5 de febrero de 2025
Our time is finite, our roles are infinite, there's always more to do. For many the pressure of the lists becomes too much, let's be mindful of stress and burnout, what can we do? Could micromanaging ourselves lead us to the answer?
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Time does funny things; at times it feels like there's so much of it, at others it's distinctly limited. How pushed for time do you feel with your classes?
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We're well into 2025 now; a new year full of new challenges and plenty of old ones too. As leaders, we often try to do it all but we shouldn't, we can't. How can we manage it all? The theory of comparative advantage offers a possible way through it all. What it is it? How can it help? Is it workable in our Managing in TEFL contexts?
Whether it's a new year, a new term, a new week or a new class, we can always refresh our teaching screen and press reset on our classes. In this edition of The TEFLer we'll look at how to refresh and reset wherever we are in the year.
It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas… actually it's pretty much here, we’re on holiday after this week for a bit of rest and recuperation and, and a good dollop of cheer too, I hope. Do you get time off now?
A silly Spanish-English joke; a play on words with the name Juan and the saying “there's always one”... funny, isn't it? Or maybe not, especially when it's explained. (Edit this?)
A language school leaders response to teachers' financial difficulties.
Many teachers are struggling to make ends meet. How far should we take responsibility and try to help? What could we do? We're feeling the pinch too. We live in uncertain times and, in many parts of the world, we in English language teaching are in a contracting market. What can we do to help our colleagues and, hopefully, ourselves too?
“Managing in TEFL” is a fortnightly companion for language school leaders. It is brought to you by Active Language Teacher Training, www.activelanguage.net, providers of Trinity Dip and CertTESOL and Teaching Younger Learners courses.
