Surviving Teaching A Little Help For The New ESL Teacher

By Dale Hewitson

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...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dale Hewitson
• Release date: Jan 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310290411

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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