Category Archives: ELT management

Becoming a TEFL course provider

You really do learn new stuff in TEFL all the time. Only a week ago I wrote an article on The Advantages and Disadvantages of Setting Up a TEFL Course  (something I did twice back when I was ambitious), and it … Continue reading

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Tired of being a TEFL pleb?

To make up for all the navel gazing recently, have decided to give the public what it wants for once. And what the public wants is TEFL sex! That first paragraph should get some nice bizarre Google searches coming my way, but actually I’ve … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins says you should take that promotion

As the token scientist in almost every TEFL school I have worked in, I have decided to move on from telling all your English Lit graduates how to work out percentages on your end of year grammar tests and move … Continue reading

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Is a good teacher worth good money? Part Two

I seem to be preaching to the converted here (unless the people who disagree with me are so infuriated that their fingers have tensed up and they temporarily can’t use a keyboard), but I’d already started writing part two before … Continue reading

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