English Teachers Needed
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Category: Brazil
Forum Name: Teaching English
Forum Discription: Finding and offering teaching jobs in Brazil
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Topic: English Teachers Needed
Posted By: Jack Morgan
Subject: English Teachers Needed
Date Posted: 16 April 2012 at 12:43
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**Update** This position has now been filled, thank you to all participants.
http://www.plsonline.com.br - Paulista Language Solutions is looking for: English teachers in São Paulo who would like to join a growing team of "In company" teachers. We provide classes to professional students in the financial areas of São Paulo. email us: mailto:info@plsonline.com.br - Click here Please include your CV/Resumé. Regards, ------------- http://www.plsonline.com.br - Paulista Language Solutions - Escola de Inglês, Tradução, Interpretação. |
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Posted By: cara0910
Date Posted: 16 April 2012 at 13:10
Carteira assinada? Salary? |
Posted By: Jack Morgan
Date Posted: 16 April 2012 at 13:21
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Por favor, solicitamos que nos envie um email para receber mais infomações sobre a posição:
info@plsonline.com.br ------------- http://www.plsonline.com.br - Paulista Language Solutions - Escola de Inglês, Tradução, Interpretação. |
Posted By: Jack Morgan
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 11:11
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No suitable teachers have been found yet, therefore I will uploads a little more information:
Our teachers teach "In Company" classes mostly to business around Avenida Paulista. Very small classes, mostly one to one, but sometimes up to 3 in a class. Pay: R$40 - R$55 (per hour) + Sales commission Please send your CV/Resume to me and we can arrange an interview straight away: jack.morgan@plsonline.com.br ------------- http://www.plsonline.com.br - Paulista Language Solutions - Escola de Inglês, Tradução, Interpretação. |
Posted By: cara0910
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 11:57
Carteira assinada is a RIGHT. How shocking that you wouldn't just say that you sign carteiras when I asked! 
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Posted By: scottyh
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 21:25
| sales comission???????? for a teaching job... ha ha ha ha ha |
Posted By: Jack Morgan
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 21:33
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We have a great program where if any of our teachers indicate a new student to join our school we will pay them a commission, its that simple! ------------- http://www.plsonline.com.br - Paulista Language Solutions - Escola de Inglês, Tradução, Interpretação. |
Posted By: spongebob
Date Posted: 25 April 2012 at 07:48
I don't think that's sooooo crazy. After all, it is the teacher that has to entertain the student so that the student doesn't get bored and then stop caring. Why Brazilians start and stop something is beyond me. Most of the time, I don't think it's cultural to put a goal into their heads and see it through. ------------- - ** Just sayin' ** ** Make lemonaid out of lemons. ** ** Trolls get old...** |
Posted By: cara0910
Date Posted: 25 April 2012 at 11:10
Hahaha! You've been in Brazil TOOOOO long. Teachers are not supposed to entertain students unless the students are 6 years old, Bobby! In Brazil 40-year-old professionals want you to balance a ball on your nose like a seal to entertain them during an English class. That's not what a teacher is! I guess that's reflected in the poor state of education in the country. They could learn a thing or two from the discipline of the Koreans and the Chinese. |
Posted By: frank4000
Date Posted: 25 April 2012 at 12:21
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could be ------------- Meu Vizinho Jogou um semente no seu quintal |
Posted By: Ferguson21
Date Posted: 26 April 2012 at 01:26
And if they still can't say 'How are you?' after 2 months of classes (of which they attended 25% and were late 50%) it's the teacher's fault and they hop on to another franchising school hoping they sell the magic cup of English to them. |
Posted By: spongebob
Date Posted: 26 April 2012 at 19:45
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Yes Fergie, this is why I can't STAND to teach classes. Ahhhh!!! I'm having a psycho attack. HAha, just kidding. It's called LAZINESS!!! I was writing about that this morning. If you're a native speaker-teacher, I think the only way to filter out some of that crap is to only take on advanced students who just want contact with the language and not to forget. I take my hat off to people who teach English to Brazilians 'cause I can't do it. ------------- - ** Just sayin' ** ** Make lemonaid out of lemons. ** ** Trolls get old...** |
Posted By: frank4000
Date Posted: 26 April 2012 at 20:58
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Hmm lol@sponge. I think i will focus on teaching the wife first and then take it from there. ------------- Meu Vizinho Jogou um semente no seu quintal |
Posted By: Ferguson21
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 00:39
After 12 hours (4 weeks) of analyzing, looking at, pronouncing, reading and listening to the CD of the magical phrase 'How are you?' and the answer 'I'm fine' of chapter one (The same in any book) comes the ultimate day: the student enters the class romm 30 minutes late and I ask 'How are you?' The answer is: 'desculpe, eu não estudou esta semana' Again I will play the CD and we'll listen and try to understand the pronunciation and differences between 'How are you?' and 'who are you?' |
Posted By: hpeak13
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 08:41
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i hope you are exaggerating about taking that long to have a student understand how/who are you. if not, mybe try a different approach because obviosly what you are doing isnt working ------------- We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. -Enoch Nucky Thompson |
Posted By: spongebob
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 10:36
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hpeak - yup, I would agree with you, but most students are lazy as hell. What can a teacher do if the person is too un-motivated to even show up? I think most Brazilian teachers can care less. To them, each student is a paycheck. Penso que eles têm razão. I think that's the only way someone can survive teaching classes in the long-run. I see written tests from people all the time of people who "studied" a.k.a - "hardly ever went" to a franchise course. The results are depressing. In the beginning, I blamed the course. Now I know it's the student. If someone is like me, and motivated, they will demand results. When I feel like a class is not challenging enough for me, I ask to practice with other people or the instuctors. I complain vocally when I feel like I'm getting short-changed on the time. (I'm talking sports here, but it is a class, nonetheless.) ------------- - ** Just sayin' ** ** Make lemonaid out of lemons. ** ** Trolls get old...** |
Posted By: hpeak13
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 10:53
I was having this exact conversation with a buddy yesterday. Is teaching the only business where people rely/count on sh*tty customers for survival? I don't get the "you have to accept and teach sh*tty students" mentality Why? There is enough of a demand for English where you should be able to pick and choose. I don't like wasting my time, so I don't give classes to the people who cancel without rescheduling, who continually don't do homework (yet complain they aren't learning), and like sbob said, in general just aren't interested/motivated in class. ------------- We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. -Enoch Nucky Thompson |
Posted By: Ferguson21
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 12:06
Off course I exaggerate a little. So obviously what I'm doing is not working?? I don't have to do anything, the student has to work, train and sweat, not me. I just give them the tools and train very little (2-3 hours a week). The rest they must do at home. You can't learn English by studying 2 hours a week. Good students hardly need teachers. I've seen good Brazilian English teachers who never took a class. They learned English watching movies, surfing the net and playing video games. Most of the students here don't show up, don't reschedule, never call, don't study, don't care and will never ever speak English and that's the teacher's fault. |
Posted By: spongebob
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 12:08
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yup, I demand results because I'm paying. How so many people here can pay and not demand squat is beyond me. I guess it's their loss though.... For me, I'm always at the top 10% in everything I do. I don't have to be 1st or 2nd, but if I'm in the top 10, I'm happy. I'm trying to figure out where I picked up this philosphy and this number 'cause it seems like it doesn't exist in Brazil. (No Cara, I didn't get this from the USA, nor my parents, exactly.) ------------- - ** Just sayin' ** ** Make lemonaid out of lemons. ** ** Trolls get old...** |
Posted By: hpeak13
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 12:09
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part of teaching is also presenting the material in a way they can learn it. it's more than popping in a cd and hitting play.
Most of the students here don't show up, don't reschedule, never call, don't study, don't care and will never ever speak English and that's the teacher's fault. i have no idea where you got this from ------------- We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. -Enoch Nucky Thompson |
Posted By: Ferguson21
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 14:43
I got this from my own experience. You cannot teach a language. The student himself will have to invest a lot of time and energy in it. The teacher only helps him. How come that Brazil is a country with the highest concentration of English schools and hardly anybody speaks English? Why are there almost no English schools in Europe and everybody speaks English? How come a lot of young people from India, Japan, China, Singapore, Indonesia speak English? Because they work hard for it. Brazilians think they can learn to speak English by visiting an English school only twice a week. When they realize they can't learn it because they are too lazy they will blame the methodology, the schools, the teachers, anything but themselves. Advanced students like Spongebos mentioned are a peace of cake. Young beginning students who have the money to sign up at the franchised expensive schools come from rich families in which people aren't used to work hard for their money. |
Posted By: hpeak13
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 16:34
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I never said that a student who doesn't study still should learn. Of course it is the students responsibility to invest time and energy...duh.
As far as the number of English schools vs the number of english speakers might have something to do with the quality of the schools, lessons, and teachers filling the market. ------------- We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. -Enoch Nucky Thompson |
Posted By: FloripaRawb
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 16:43
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Students are lazy. I don't think thats specific to Brasil. I was lazy as hell in HS but I still managed a full ride somewhere.
As native speakers, we have the advantage of standing out. More students come to my extra conversation classes, more novice students (from other classes) make the effort of stumbling through the pleasantries with me...We have their attention. The job of a good teacher is to keep it. How many of you other teachers keep in constant contact w/your students via email or facebook? I think it helps to touch base once a week with the more problematic(i.e.--the students that are lazy as f**k) and further encourages those who have the desire. |
Posted By: hpeak13
Date Posted: 27 April 2012 at 17:12
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I use fb/email with my students so they get daily contact with the language, if if only a quick chat about mundane things ------------- We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. -Enoch Nucky Thompson |
Posted By: samkie
Date Posted: 30 July 2012 at 18:50
| I thought most destinations are spain, south korea and mexico. But man, I would love to go back to brasil. Right now, currently in the U.S. |
Posted By: spongebob
Date Posted: 07 August 2012 at 07:50
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Yep, I hate the lazy people. Nowadays, I would rather work as a pedreiro than "teach" English. With most of those manual jobs, you can just put on the headphone and go to work. A hole in the wall is not going to forget to come to class without calling! ------------- - ** Just sayin' ** ** Make lemonaid out of lemons. ** ** Trolls get old...** |
Posted By: MikeAguilar
Date Posted: 19 September 2012 at 19:23
I won't lie and say that all of that students that I have are dedicated and hard-working students, but they almost always show up on time to class, hardly ever cancel, and all are definitely improving on a daily basis. And now, some of them are even asking me to teach private lessons for them. |
Posted By: MikeAguilar
Date Posted: 19 September 2012 at 19:25
The countries you mentioned also teach English in high school/secondary school and many require at least a passing understanding of the language, realizing that English is the dominant language on the planet. |
Posted By: frank4000
Date Posted: 19 September 2012 at 22:22
What areas do you students work in or want to work in? ------------- Meu Vizinho Jogou um semente no seu quintal |
Posted By: MikeAguilar
Date Posted: 19 September 2012 at 22:33
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I have some in technical management. 2 work for major network providers here, one works for a book publisher. 2 work for a fashion publisher. And 2 work for the Dept of Education. I have several that are in network operations and security. Oh, and 3 work for 2 different major, international banks. The 2 that work for the Dept/Ed, I go to them. I also go to 2 of the bank people. And both people that work for the major network providers. |