TAG : Teacher Burnout

Barbarians in the building

Teaching English to savages and the great recession

In Blogs: Steve Schertzer - 1st December 2009

This past July I accepted a job teaching English at a university in Saudi Arabia. I was to teach Saudi males in their 20's and was excited about that opportunity. The tax-free salary of around $3,500 U.S. a month along with a rent-free apartment, return airfare, and long paid holidays didn't hurt either.

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PJ’s journey

How difficult is it to adjust to life back in the old country?

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 30th November 2008

How easy or difficult is it to adapt back to a life in your native country after spending seven or eight years teaching in Thailand? Will jobs be easy to come by? Are your old friends still around, and if so, how will they react when the wanderer returns? How does it feel to suddenly find yourself thrown into a world of credit crunches, binge drinking, escalating crime rates and a world far removed from the one you left behind?

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The anatomy of a teachers room

What goes on in that cramped, airless little room?

In Ajarn Street: Articles - 13th August 2008

For all those who have ever taught in Asia - laugh along at 'the anatomy of a teacher's room' from the water-kettle that's never full to the pot-plant that always needs watering.

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Notes on a semester

What can you do when teaching starts to get you down?

In Blogs Archived: Tazza's Thailand Tales - 3rd March 2008

How can I or any teacher that feels he's underachieving turn things around? I doubt there is any magic formula, but I've come up with a few ideas. Many of them are blindingly obvious but it's often the easy points we miss during difficult classes.

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Moans and groans

Sent in by Jeff V

In Ajarn Street: Postbox - 31st December 2007

I have "some" moaning and groaning to do, so I guess I'm here at the right place to do so!

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A very bad day indeed

Today was one of the most unpleasant in my four years plus of teaching

In Blogs Archived: Tazza's Thailand Tales - 1st December 2007

My problem was discipline. You see, I've been teaching for over four years and until today I had only received two complaints.

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An Indian teacher in Thailand

Bobo Meitei faces the perils and pitfalls of finding a teaching job

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 5th August 2007

Bobo gets to grips with sliding pay scales and agents bemused by his pseudo-American appearance. Well worth a read!

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Nothing but disrespect

In Ajarn Street: Postbox - 24th April 2007

For those foreigners willing to devote their time and energies to quality teaching, it can be a bitterly disillusioning experience. With the salaries going lower and the benefits (medical and other insurance, housing, etc.) fewer, and the cost of living increasing, teachers who have been here for years are now leaving the country.

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What hope for a superficial education system?

The joys of being part of the system

In Blogs Archived: Nick Tarver - 2nd November 2005

Being a foreign teacher is again another superficial and costly exercise. They want to show you off like a new piece of gold jewelry or a good photograph. Relatively speaking it costs a lot to employ a foreign teacher in Thailand.

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Are you certified?

Finding your way through the TEFL course maze

In Blogs Archived: Ken May - 1st June 2005

Teaching was no longer challenging. I was stagnating. Sure, I could always shake my life up with a weekend of debauchery, an occasional fling with a sexy female expatriate, or by traveling to a different city – and, truth be told, I often tried combining all three. But, at my core, I knew that I wasn’t growing productively. As a teacher I wasn’t developing. My methodologies had become stale. I needed a new bag of tricks. I needed rejuvenation.

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