Job Site: Higher Ed Jobs

This site is fantastic if you're looking to work in higher education. Whether you're looking for an admin, faculty, or executive position, Higher Ed Jobs has tons of them. You can search by job type, state, region, dual career, or country.

The nice thing about searching by country is that they have a list of all the countries that have job adverts and the number of adverts for each country. The dual career search option is also very cool. It's made for couples in academia so you can search for higher education positions in the same area. Make sure you take a look at this site if you're trying to get a job in academia.

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Cool Link: Kid Zone

Made for kids preschool to grade 5, Kid Zone has worksheets for a variety of different subjects. They have their resources arranged by grade as well as topic. Their topics are animals, geography, language arts, lesson plans, magic tricks, math, science, and thematic units.

The magic tricks are especially cool because kids love amazing their friends and family. At the bottom they have recent updates to the site, so you can always see what's new. Kid Zone is part of a dozen other sites run by the same family. You can see their complete list of sister sites on the bottom right. All their sites are simple, have lots of info and are basically advert free. So be sure to check out this site and their sister sites as well.

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Quick Tip: Hold English Corners

I know that many teachers complain about having to do English corners but they are useful if used correctly. Popular in Asia, English corners are informal chat sessions that help students become more confident in speaking English.

The difficulty lies with having students with mixed levels or one student who dominates the conversation while the others sit silently or them expecting you to tell them your life story.

The best way to avoid these problems if by being prepared. Have a variety of questions suitable to different levels. You could try pairing the students off or putting them in small groups. They can talk about the topics for a given amount of time and then come together and share their ideas. It helps if you remind students that they're supposed to have a conversation. This means asking and answering questions. You don't want them to give monologues.

Other people have talked about books, movies, and tv shows. It depends on you and your students. You might have the same group show up week after week or you might get new students every time. It's really not that bad if you're prepared. You'll find that your students have interesting ideas as well.

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Cool Link: Teach-nology

Technology is all over the place and Teach-nology caters to that. Their resources are free and easy to use. They have over 46,000 lesson plans, nearly 10,000 worksheets, not to mention rubrics, tips for teachers, worksheet generators, web quests and lots more.

It's aimed at students in grades K-12, so if you teach that age group, you're going to want to check out this site. It's nice and easy to use and there's even a newsletter that you can sign up for. While a lot of their resources are free, they also have a paid membership section, which varies from $30 to $50 a year.


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Hot Topic: Socialising with Students Outside of Class

I'm not talking about dating students, which is a whole other can of worms, but of dinner or drinks with a group of them. Having taught in two Asian countries, I know that Asian students like to get to know their teachers outside of class, bombard them with questions or try to pick up as much free English as possible.

Having gone to dinner a couple times with university students and adult students I can say that I have mixed feelings about socialising with students outside of class. On the one hand it's good, because you can see each other as regular people instead of students and teachers. You can also learn about each others' culture. Yet on the other hand, it can be awkward and stressful, especially if students start taking notes on English vocabulary.


What do you think?
Do you spend time with students outside of class? What's your opinion of meeting students for dinner or drinks in a group?

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