Decide on something important for a change
Is it time for New Year’s resolutions that get broken after a whisp of time? Not in 2012. Surely it’s time to decide on something important for a change.
More and more people are turning to EFL teaching to help them support their families and finding it to be a fulfilling and worthwhile job even though there are also downsides, but what job doesn’t have those?
Never has the learning loop
been so important
For some, the desire to become a teacher begins fairly early on in life, after having been inspired by some model or mentor. For others it happens later, perhaps for more practical reasons – location, family, survival… Either way, there’s no effective teaching without real passion for the profession. And it’s just this passion that constantly changes as teaching evolves, finds new ways to engage and make learning more meaningful, real, memorable, and much more personal. Teachers are learners too and in this technological age, never has the learning loop been so important as it is now.
a natural biosphere
of life and death
Technology and tradition have always walked side by side, hand in hand, in the classroom. Are our pieces (coloured if we’re lucky) of chalk (or pens) and a board the very first pieces of teacher technology? In many classrooms, they still take pride of place. Being the most widely and most frequently used teaching aid, chalk and board continue to outlive the birth and death of purportedly smarter, whizzier and brighter technology teaching aids which burst out into the social networks and get recommended, tested, liked but might then get spat out or ignored in a relative nanosecond. This is natural and very welcome biosphere of life and death for an ESL/EFL teacher and really helps the novice teachers to pick out the best from the rest!
More and more people are hearing about the ESL/EFL teaching world through social media and networks. More and more are attracted to the amazing changes technology is making to learning and its accessibility to millions more people around the world. More and more is this mirrored in the practical ways people can train to become an EFL/ESL teacher as there is more availability of both face-to-face and online (or blended) courses which attract a range of ages from 20 right up to 65! Yes, some people decide to retrain so they are ready for an ‘active’ retirement.
is it time for you to
become a teacher ?
Let’s embrace this evolving, synergic network of passion and passionate teachers. The teaching cauldron is bubbling with teachers who’ve known nothing else as well as those who’ve arrived on its lip later on in life with a suitcase brimming with valuable experience from other fields. What other profession embraces and develops in such a way?
You might like to watch a video about one person’s inspiration. VIDEO
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