I'm in my second week of CELTA and I failed 2 TPs. Is it over?
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I'm in my second week of CELTA and I failed 2 TPs. Is it over?
I'm in my second week of CELTA and I failed 2 TPs. Is it over?
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How many are you allowed to fail? I can't remember. How do you even fail the TPs?
Not sure but my assessor says 2 or 3.
I thought it was just one but maybe I'm thinking of writing assignments
I passed everything in CELTA but I'm shit at the job and my boss seems to think so too. She never has anything positive to say. I really just don't like teaching kids. I don't like the classroom management, the behavior and attention issues, I don't like having to worry about things being fun, I just have no idea what to do with them. All I want is just to deliver a nice, chill, clean, dry, academic lesson to grown adults who are paying their own money to be here because they want to learn.
in which country are you teaching?
Vietnam
move schools.
I can't find any jobs with adults at all. I'm at a big chain language center currently. What kind of place do you think I might do better at? If you have helpful experience then please, I'm all ears.
Would you not be able to suffice with 16-18 year olds doing who are trying to get their IELTS for their university placement, there are no shortage of those?
Not sure, I haven't taught that age yet. At my current job, I find the younger the better. The kindy kids and lower primaries still like to make adults happy. The ones from like 10-14 (the oldest I have) are little bastards, but I reckon they chill out again by 16. I know I did.
Yeah I'd agree in that. I teach grade 1-3 and IELTs / Pre-IELTS and flat out refuse to teach anything in between at this point. Teaching grade 6-7-8 feels like a completely different job and I have no idea why so many new teachers are striving to be placed in those classes so much.
As someone who can't stand doing presentations in the workplace, how does this change being in a classroom? I'm scared I'm going to be way too anxious to do anything especially after working from home for 3 years.
120 days? isn't it 120 hours? I feel like this might be me.
TTT, this cycle of saving $10k and then blowing $10k for 60-90 days of "fun" is not sustainable.
Which country was this?
>As someone who can't stand doing presentations in the workplace, how does this change being in a classroom? I'm scared I'm going to be way too anxious to do anything especially after working from home for 3 years.
I've been a teacher for over 15 years. The first three weeks were excruciating. Your mind adapts when you keep it in that state. I know a teacher who has been teaching as long as me and can't maintain eye contact and will hold a whole conversation while not taking his eyes off his laptop. Also mumbles the whole conversation. He's adapted in the classroom though. You just have to put yourself through that stress for 3 weeks and you'll get past the hump
Appreciate it, I've heard something very similar from a teacher friend I have in that you kinda have your teacher persona which you fall into.
What age were you during your midlife crisis? do you regret doing teaching? was it a huge stepdown in salary?
I'm 30, SWE and have about $450k and debating giving up my job and just doing teaching for a year or two because I'm losing my mind living in a room.
>As someone who can't stand doing presentations in the workplace, how does this change being in a classroom? I'm scared I'm going to be way too anxious to do anything especially after working from home for 3 years.
It's much less stressful imo. I was a corporate manager for years before having my midlife crisis and making this shift and I still never got comfortable with that bullshit and would avoid it the best I could, but I find teaching is different, at least with smallish classes. I might get stage fright trying to give a history lecture in front of 100 students, but my biggest class is like 16 and they're too young to be nervous about. Besides, if you're doing your job right, you're talking as little as possible and making THEM talk.
I wouldn’t know. I finished my TEFL course, and then when I came back to get my portfolio, I slipped in and out of the office and avoided eye contact with my teachers who regularly interacted with me for 120 days. I ignored all their follow up emails about a job
Instead of making good on my $1200 dollar investment, I blew the rest of my savings, meant to get myself situated in a job, on drowning in alcohol and fricking hookers. Once the money nearly ran out, a few months later, I bought a plane ticket back to my parents house, tucked my tail between my legs, and quietly took a taxi to the Bangkok airport without telling anyone.
The practice classes at the end of the course were so fricking unbearably awkward and I felt like I was going to dissolve into a puddle of sweat. I barely got through them. There’s no way I could endure that feeling for even a few weeks. I would never “get the hang of it,” I’d just be awkward and uncomfortable and torture myself
I'm almost positive I've seen you post before. I hope whatever you're doing now instead is working out better for you bro.
I’m an overnight security guard who’s been working 60 hours a week for what will be 2.5 years straight by the end of pic related countdown. Once the countdown is reached, I’m flying to my parents house, getting a visa, and then going to Thailand.
I’ve been doing nothing but “waiting to go back to Thailand” since March 6th 2022. This won’t be the last time I’m in this situation either. In America I have absolutely no life. I work as much as I can and on my two days off I start drinking, cook myself something, and then get into bed and drink until I fall asleep.
>get into bed and drink
In that order?
Yea at the tail end of the drinking in anticipation of me passing out yes
At least 6 months, but a year is the sweet spot imo. At a years mark you start to question yourself and want to to do something productive again
How long do you think you'll be in Thailand for?
Why are you settling for such a shitty existence? You might fail and end up with a shitty life but not trying to claw your way out to happiness at all? A big vacation and years of drinking alone in bed and working 60 hours. Man, do something. Anything. Fight to improve your life, it will give you meaning, direction and momentum and lift your spirit and wellbeing even if you don't get too far. Your life hurts to read brother. Cone on man.
Not him but I find fighting and failing hurts even more than stagnation.
>Not him but I find fighting and failing hurts even more than stagnation
You shouldn't be failing so much then. Set smaller, accomplishable challenges so that you can succeed in them and feel strength and confidence from them. Building your way up
I fail at everything. I can't seem to learn anymore, like my brain has crystalized. It's shit.
>I can't seem to learn anymore, like my brain has crystalized
If that's true, you should see a doctor. Or Otherwise, you're just the same as everyone else, getting less cognitively competentas you age. You can still learn.
You could also take 5g og psilocybin mushrooms, it makes new synaptic pathways to other parts of the brain. Might also fix what may just be ennui
you unironically are a good candidate for the military
>implying anybody should join the military
Chill dude. They dropped don't ask, don't tell. Your good
That's pretty cute anon but I don't think not wanting to follow some brown homie's orders and lose body parts fighting for the military industrial complex is an exclusively gay thing.
little better than rotting away at a 10 buck an hour job right? there's a lot to be said about seeing the world for free, GI Bill, Tricare, permanent vet hiring preference, VA Home Loan, etc.
>inb4 zogbot shill
honestly, what else would you recommend OP do? he sounds like a defeatist loser with a million excuses and no work ethic
If it makes you feel any better at least half of those people you interacted with likely couldn't hack it after the first year and ended up leaving a few months into their contract. One girl in particular I remember in our group had a teaching/English degree alongside a few years experience teaching in English public schools and not only did she storm out of one of this in-house observations crying, she also stormed out of one of her classes after fighting with a TA then booked a flight back home a week later.
Starting a CELTA course in april, what should I expect?
>so fricking unbearably awkward
Why?
>Why?
I have urinary incontinence. Even if I have dark colored pants or wear a sanitary pad (I don't wear diapers) you can tell I've pissed a little The idea of being Mr Pissy Pants all over again just fills me with dread
Seriously though
I think this all depends on your social skills. If you are comfortable meeting new people, personable and comfortable presenting in front of them then you'll be totally fine.
I'm okay with the first two but presenting is going to be a huge issue so I'm planning on tackling this before the course.
I'm guessing you either learn quickly and it becomes a non-issue after the first few times, or it's overwhelming and you quit
Have a TEFL question, gonna use this thread for it since the general died, I guess - any recommendations for doing TEFL abroad? I'd rather do it somewhere exotic and cheap than in my home country. Preferrably Philippines or Malaysia
Is this even worth doing if I don't have a degree?
Not really. I had a TEFL before I got a degree. Worked in Cambodia, China and Ethiopia but things have probably been tightened up since.
You can scrape around a few places still I'm sure
A degree in what?
>A degree in what?
Don't do a TEFL with those reading comprehension skills anon
Sorry, I meant what field of study are you asking about... A degree in Education, English, Psychology, Business?
Oh yeah. Good question
Well idk what it's in since I don't have one.