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Foreign language teaching. Part 4: planning courses for youth

19/08/2015 awirkowska

Youth usually already see the usefulness of foreign language learning in their future occupational life, but they often associate it with coercion and school drill. So how to plan a course young students will not skip off and still bring about positive outcomes?

Foreign language teaching. Part 3: planning courses for adults

14/07/2015 awirkowska

The intellectual and emotional capabilities of adult students (19+) are so well-developed that teachers usually claim that they have no problems teaching them. But this is also the group of students most frequently “migrating” in terms of changing language schools, the most unstable one and also the one whose needs must be addressed best when […]

Foreign language teaching. Part 2: developing a teaching curriculum

17/06/2015 awirkowska

The teaching curriculum in your school must be based on a single, major thing: the target, defined by meeting of the final requirements, set by you, your methodologist and teacher for your course participants. Only when you define the foregoing, you can set out to prepare the content, i.e. educational materials and their potential breakdown […]

Foreign language teaching. Part 1: old methods like new

20/05/2015 awirkowska

Managing a language school includes also a necessity to answer to the question of how we will teach foreign languages. This issue should not be left totally up to the decision of a teacher. Both the school’s methodologist and manager should also have some influence on the teaching policy and be aware of the pros and cons […]

How to recruit a good foreign language tutor? Part 4: a little bit of classics

29/04/2015 awirkowska

In the previous Manager’s Zone entries we gave clues on how to effectively recruit for your team an unconventional teacher with huge potential. Does this mean that „classic” teachers should retire? Definitely not! Don’t let them go or you’ll lose a lot.

How to recruit a good foreign language tutor? Part 3: recruiting native speakers

22/04/2015 awirkowska

Have you observed also in your school a trend to apply a “softer” recruitment regime to native speakers? We usually grill English course instructor pretty hot, while in the case of foreign ones it suffices for us that they are natives and assure us they used to give private lessons. That’s a mistake…

How to recruit a good foreign language tutor? Part 2: a job interview

15/04/2015 awirkowska

Many manuals have been written about job interviews. Students of human resources management faculties take part in workshops lasting many hours to be well-prepared for the job of a recruiter. During those workshops, they create various scenarios of job interviews or other forms of meetings with candidates for the offered position. Nevertheless, none of them […]

How to recruit a good foreign language tutor? Part 1: CV

08/04/2015 awirkowska

Today we are starting a series of articles dedicated to the recruitment of foreign language tutors. It is challenging to find the right employee, even more so because a contemporary teacher of a foreign language, particularly a teacher in a private language school, must be someone going beyond academic standards. Check out what to draw your […]

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