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Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]
Those books that try and tell you what to do and what's what with your career. They tend to be written by paranoid and repressed individuals looking to carve out a new niche for themselves.
They have a solid rep and are accredited so that'll do me nicely. Besides, I prefer to look to the near future, not back to April-May 2004.
It's embossed in my mind. Given that I'll only live with one person my whole life, that'll do me nicely. I feel no need to prove myself.
What I meant by egomaniacal game is the often selfish lure of 'advancement' ('ambition makes you look pretty ugly', Radiohead). I prefer to make use of the tools I have. Working with a Polish legal adviser is really teasing out what I studied and having that avenue is useful. It's about putting yourself in the loop and I found that contract through enquiring.
Travelling became a priority some years ago and having a wife as a manageress of a travel agency doesn't hurt either ;)
As long as the objectives of distance learning are clearly spelled out, it has a place. You just need to know where you can be realistically placed and coached through. Undertaking such a scheme for box-ticking or money is the wrong way to go about it. I wonder what Harmer would have to say about it, I'm gazing up at his seminal book on teaching now. Damn, too many books around me ;) ;)
Exactly, jonni. You have to be careful of going too far down a certain road. 'Choose wisely' cannot be overstated.
I hear ye. Still, I've shuffled at the right times. I did one year of Callan too many (3) but that's behind me now. Plus, I did Business English and was a FCE/CAE mentor too so a few more things were thrown into the mix.
Stick with your Warsaw commitments, though. There is no getting round the fact that teaching is laden/fraught with pitfalls when it comes to contracts. Contracts come and go and that's just the way it is. Lord only knows I've had to adjust and bide my time on some.
Like most native speakers who have reached a certain level of proficiency, I only do Pol-Eng. Anything else comes from the help and clarification of my wife.
It's all about weathering inevitable storms and taking the bad with the good. Having a school is a great project and worth pursuing.
Well, it all depends on how satisfied you'd be with the options that delph outlined. They are not for me, much as plum jobs in the EU weren't after graduating LLM in International and European Law in Nov 2000. My work colleagues are important and I don't think that I'd relish the prospect of working with some DELTA people.
Absolutely not, jonni. However, the ball is often not in our court. Other people can control out destiny to some extent and we just have to defend our corner and strive to bring to fruition what we started. It's more cut throat in Prague and Vienna from what I have heard, yes.
True, it all hinges on your circumstances. I'm not prepared to go beyond LLM and CELTA, that's investment enough for me. It's a question of desire.