My higher level ELLs are stuck and admin is not happy about our number of long term ELLs. Reading seems to be their weakest skill—which I find odd because they seem to be as fluent as any of the non-ELLs in my school. What activities/curricula/programs do you suggest for moving these kids along?

Does anyone work with Blingabc or Skooli or Wetalk?

Do they still pay $25/hr or more?

I made this chart over a year ago but want to be sure they are still the highest paid companies.

Hello folks. We've recently launched our fluency practice app called Lingolette. Mind you that it's not cut out for very beginners, and aimed at complementing the language classes with fluency practice.

If you're interested, feel free to check it out and give your feedback. It would help us a lot to make it more user friendly and enjoyable for learners.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: You can google it as Lingolette. It's a web app. Reddit doesn't let me post the link here somehow.

Hi!

I am working on a case study for the University of Saint Joseph and the Immigration and Global Social Work committee for the National Association of Social Workers.

We are conducting a case study regarding immigrant children as they adjust to the US school system. We are looking for individuals who work for non-profits, teachers, counselors, social workers, etc. These individuals must work directly with immigrant children to give us significant insight from a professional perspective. We would love to have at least 20 participants.

Please share with your colleagues and community, as we hope to fill these spots by May 20th.  Unfortunately, I can't attach the detailed flyer about the study here, but once you fill out the information in the form we can send that to you.

You can click the link below to sign up for an informative call and go ahead or share with someone you think may be a good fit for the study.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOWJhaS_NDo863q4iWzFNCTzfQTCvuNKse7sUfkwliIpl-MQ/viewform 

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Hello! Is there anyone here who is currently teaching or has taught English with Learnlight in the past? I'm curious about how difficult it is to pass their demo or dry-run. I'd appreciate any tips you could share.

I kniw we used to get hard copies in June, but then #pandemic, and now electronic files, and now an email stating that "scores are being kept" elsewhere, which had me thinking they might already have published them.

And yet I can't find...

I have a private lesson student leaving for the summer who isn't motivated to study outside of class. It's an adult learner. I wanted to gift something to motivated and encourage him.

I had someone tell me white teachers shouldn't go abroad to teach English. I think it's pretty messed up. I do get that there is a race dynamic with certain countries, but wtf.

Hello all,

I want to move to China to teach ESL. I am a native speaker with a CELTA, a non-related university degree, and many years of ESL teaching experience.

I see many recruitment agencies online.
However, people warn me that: 1) they take some of your salary, 2) they try to get you a visa instead of the language centre. This is illegal and can get you kicked out of the country.

The problem is, when I search online, more than 90% of listings seem to be through agencies.

What can you advise?

Thank you

Hi Guys! Hope you all are having a great day. I was once an employee under an ESL company and sadly the rate was not sufficient and fair.

I started to freelance and build up my own ESL company with a vision to keep the teachers under my business happy and treat them fairly mostly giving them the highest portion of the salary and not deducting the charges too.

Now, my concern is I want to get more students to help the teachers under me since my schedule is already full.

My students are based in China but I am open to expand to different countries. I need suggestions to widen my connection and get more students. Suggestions and guidance will help me a lot fellow teachers. Thank you so much!

Greetings, I am a retired classroom teacher with 20+ years experience. Shortly after I retired from the classroom I had the opportunity of tutoring Chinese and some Korean students. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have hopes of getting involved with that again in the near future. I have researched a little but, I have not found many opportunities for tutoring foreign students. I did like that they were serious about learning and respectful towards me and other adults.

I am a native speaker, have degrees in teaching another area, have a teaching certificate in my area, and what I consider a worthless TESOL certificate. I had difficulties locating a place so, I signed up for IOA in a pinch. Their program would be pretty close to what I would call a TESOL mill. So, I would need to get a certificate from an accredited reputable place. So, with that said are there any decent places to tutor? I have not specified what I expect to be paid but, I see this differently than the people who are vocal about what they will accept and would not consider. Of course, that would be between me and the person looking for tutors. I did like the programs that had the materials ready and the lessons that were more animated vs. those were only reading from a book. ( That is not to say that I could not write my own. However, I do not experience in animation.)

The ages that I enjoyed the most were the young students (beginners) going up to about age 9 or 10. In my own experiences with teaching my particular subject area does not start students until they are in 6th grade or about 11 or 12.

I would appreciate any advice about reputable TESOL sites and suggestions on where I could possible find an online position. Thank you for reading this if you made it to the end.

Hello everyone! I'm stuck with two choices. I've been accepted as an ESL Teacher in Vietnam (province area) and in Japan (somewhat remote area also). Which is better in terms work-life balance, peace, safety, salary, cost of living, culture and overall experience? I am from the Philippines by the way.

Your insights and sincere tips are highly appreciated.

When applying to work for a school, or a tutoring company? I usually customize every cover letter I write. It's very tedious and I feel like no one else does.

Illiterate ESL/Refugee Students

Hey everyone! I am a teacher in a very difficult situation that I am at a total loss in terms of how to navigate. It brings me a great deal of anxiety because I feel like it is an impossible task and that these kids are not getting what they need from me. I don’t know what I’m looking for here… I need to rant, I want advice, I want other people to share their experiences.

I teach at an inner city middle school with a large population of new immigrants and refugees, primarily from Somalia and central Africa. Some of the kids in my class are pre-literate. They cannot read or write in their native languages, they do not know their numbers, and many have NEVER attended school before. Their parents are also illiterate. Some of these kids could be best described as feral - they are quite violent and aggressive, and unable to function socially in a school setting, which makes sense given the circumstances they grew up in. There are lots of challenging behaviours to deal with on top of the academic issues.

When these new students arrive here, they are attending school for the first time and are thrown into a mainstream class. As one would expect, it is nothing short of disastrous. These kids are not getting the attention or help they need. I feel like I am ignoring them because I have 30 other students. When I do have the chance to work with them one on one, it is at the expense of my other kids’ learning because they require so much attention. I end up having to plan multiple lessons for a single class and I cannot keep up with it. There is no reason a teenager who does not know their letters is in a classroom with students who are writing essays. It is not fair to either group of students.

It is quite a sad situation and my heart goes out to these kids, but I am in no way qualified to deal with them. I am middle school trained and have a class with 30+ other students that I am expected to teach the middle school curriculum to. I am not a phonics teacher and do not know how to teach children how to read. I don’t even think that early childhood literacy strategies would work with teenagers learning to read for the first time. I also cannot translate worksheets into their native languages because they cannot read those either.

Funds have been mismanaged in my district so we do not have ESL classes and the consultants who come in once every few weeks expect you to focus all of your attention on your ESL kids, which is just not feasible.

I feel like I am just a babysitter for some of these kids and that they are not getting anything from being there. I just wish there were some transitional classes for newcomers when they arrived here. I’m in Canada, and we keep bringing in more and more refugees, but offer nothing in the way of supports.

What the hell do I do? I am so overwhelmed. Can a teenager even learn to read for the first time or have they surpassed that zone of development? How have you guys dealt with similar situations?

Hello everyone hope you're doing fine, I'm a CELTA certified teacher from Iran with 7 years of experience Do you know any platforms, sites or forums in which I could find students who'd like to learn English? I've realized that the majority of employers or sites like preply don't like working with iranian teachers so I thought I'd come and ask you guys

I taught English as a second language in a large urban city for seven years. During that time I had 6 to 8 fellow ELD teachers on my team. Last January I decided to take a job in the suburbs. It has been the best decision of my life. My admin is extremely approachable and kind. At my current school, there are two ELD teachers… It was an adjustment going from a team to one single common content colleague. Now, I was just informed that I will be transferring to the other middle school in the district to serve as the only ELD teacher in that middle school. I’m super anxious about moving schools again in such a short amount of time. But I’m more anxious about the isolation… now I’ll be going to a school where no one will share my schedule or all my kids.

The current reason why ELD is only taught at one of the middle schools is due to space, so I’m also anxious that I won’t have my own classroom and will have to float to teach. I’m trying not to get ahead of myself because it’s only 99% decided… But my principal warned me which leads me to believe that it’s closer to 100%. I’m trying to stay positive and look at it as though it will be an experience for me to grow as a teacher and be on my own and strengthen my teaching as a result. But I’m so anxious and upset that all I can see right now are the negatives.

I would appreciate any positive feedback, any shared experiences, or any kind words. 😞

I teach ESL to adult students, mostly Hispanic. I am Hispanic as well. They can be very hard on themselves if they don’t go up a level in our program. They feel like a failure and want to quit. I have explained to them that this is not Science or Math being taught in their native language. They are learning a new language! This takes time and practice. It is not achieved in 3 months (each semester is 3 months long). I see them improving but how do I get through to them that it’s ok to not go up a level, and that repeating a level or class will help them reinforce what they already know?

Hi! Newbie here. Any thoughts on J-P Network English Corp. based in the Philippines?

Hi r/ESL_Teachers ! I made a site to practice writing in English. It gives you daily writing assignments and corrected them with AI!

Right now it is tailored for IELTS writing tasks preparation. But all students with a B2 level (or more) can use it.
I open to extend it to more generic writing use if students and you ask for it.

What do you think? What should I improve? 👉 https://home.lingowrite.app

What I have now:

• Every day a new assignment
• +20 different topics with text, pictures to describe or line charts to analyze
• Correction: AI analyzes and corrects your writing
• Analyze stats about your writing: line charts with number of errors, grades, word count
• See all past submitted texts

What I'd like to add:

• Feedback on the submitted text: how one can improve it
• A dictionary with bookmarks
• Flashcards for words
• Daily assignments per email

Been working on this for 6 months. Dying for feedback here. Thank you! 🙏

Ros

I have been tutoring as a native English speaker because people wanted conversation lessons, but now I've been offered a job to teach which I believe will include grammar. I'm a bit worried about it. Obviously I know the correct grammar and way of expressing things, but not the rules behind. I plan to take a course on it, but I don't want do a disservice to the students.

What do you do to help yourself de-stress and stay motivated after a bad lesson? Sometimes when a lesson didn’t go well I feel so defeated and like a failure. I compare myself to other teachers who are so good and how I wish I could be just like them. But I don’t want to think that way and instead just see it as a learning opportunity. But I can’t help but panic and stress that my students probably think I’m awful.

Hi I’m new to planning lesson does anyone have any good warm up or activity ideas in particular for the topic of shopping? Any help appreciated, thank you

"She always demonstrates great endeavor in her work projects." ? ¡Ayuda por favor! gracias

Warning: there is a fake/dubious research lurking the page. Complete it if you wish but be aware that it does not appear to satisfy the most basic requirements of a survey from a Human Research Ethics Committe/Instititional Review Board.

It looks like data mining or fake science to me.

I really need new work