Surviving Teaching A Little Help For The New ESL Teacher
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For all the new ESL teachers out there, a book to help you with those first moments and beyond. Alot of books focus on just the teaching but this book is there to give you a little help adapting to the new country and basically "surviving". Teaching isn't an easy job and you are going to need help which book is happy to provide and with a few little stories as well.
The author is an experienced ESL teacher who has worked in Thailand and China with a lot of success.
Within the book find out about surviving things like different cultures, Heat, the first class and much more...
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Surviving Teaching A Little Help For The New ESL Teacher - Dale Hewitson
Surviving Teaching
Dale Hewitson
Published by Dale Hewitson at Smashwords
Copyright 2014 Dale Hewitson
Special Thanks
I would like to Thank
Phang Khon Wittyakom
AYC Thailand
Eslstarter.com
David Hewitson
Gillian Hewitson
Scott Hewitson
June Marisa
Papatsara Choomsuk
Pronthip Auppasai
All of my Students and family
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: First months in a new country/Culture Shock
Heat
Food
Language
Culture
Chapter 2: Teaching your first class
Introduction
Lesson Planning
The bad Lesson
That great lesson
Observations
Chapter 3: Creative Juices
Lesson plans from the internet, Warning!
Some titles for you
Role plays
Testing
Grammar Teaching
Testing the student’s levels.
Accents
Classroom management
Encouragement
Chapter 4: Teaching it is your Job !
Socializing it is important
Lesson Plan, preparation and self-evaluation.
Check the wages
Recruiters versus Direct hire
Budgeting
Dating and personal life.
Festivals
Chapter 5: Tips and stories
Stories
Tips
Foreword
I will like to begin dispelling a great fallacy, which a lot of people seem to believe: life as a ESL teacher is like a holiday. It sometimes feels like it if you are in Thailand surrounded by beautiful sights and people, but the truth is, it’s not, you are there to work and support your students.
I started teaching a few years ago, I was petrified I had never experienced being in front of a class of people I didn’t know and I spoke really softly, I felt so uncomfortable it must have been visible to everyone around me. But things change, we adapt, we learn from our mistakes especially lessons, which at first can be painful but there are others (and many of them) that are highly effective and enjoyable. So I thought this small book with its insights from a relatively new teacher abroad would help others if I shared my adventures and knowledge hoping that those who come after me will feel some benefit.
I will start by telling you who I am, or at least who I was prior to my experience with ESL. I was shy, you know the type of shy which hides under a barrel of bravado and I liked to pretend I was more than I was. Most of this I now know was a problem with my self-image. I would not describe myself as attractive or particularly well built and I was a computer nerd, having a degree is in Computer Games to prove it on paper. Design and production which sounds great but those of you