We require teachers with a minimum of a CELTA/TESOL qualification, educated to degree level and with experience of teaching Young learners.

Contact hours are between 20 – 30 per week, teaching general English courses, for classes of mainly European students. The positions are available for approx. 8 weeks and are non-residential.

It’s a wonderful place to work and our pay is very competitive. Please check out our website www.ovingdeanhallcollege.com and apply with a full, recent CV to rosiegw@ovingdeanhallcollege.com.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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400-500 euros per week based on experience, up to 42 hours per week.

Based in La Plagne & Alpe D’Huez, France

Peak Horizon International Summer Camps offer language, sport, activity and leadership camps in the French Alps. This is an invigorating, action-packed summer experience for children aged 10-17. Having 26 years of experience in providing educational travel, we pride ourselves in offering meaningful holidays, with educational elements, where children and teenagers from across the globe can play, learn and socialise whilst enjoying the spectacular location. We can offer flights from any UK airport and free board and accommodation in return for pastoral duties.

Peak Horizon is currently looking to recruit a dynamic, motivated candidate with strong interpersonal skills to take on the role of Senior Language Teacher or Language Teacher in our camps. You will be directly responsible to the Peak Leader Manager for the smooth running and delivery of quality educational detail in language tuition at your camp.

Your summary of main duties include:

• Assessment and placement of students into appropriate tuition groups
• Timetabling sessions and staff (in conjunction with French teachers)
• Delivering lessons
• Teacher induction and day to day teacher support
• Leading/attending regular teachers’ meetings
• Management and production of materials and other teaching resources including the 2-4 week camp syllabus
• Ensuring accurate records are maintained (registers, records of work done, appraisal)
• Ensuring all reports and certificates are issued and completed
• Troubleshooting and resolving any issues that arise over any aspect of the educational programme
• Liaising with Peak Leaders that the educational programme coordinates logically and smoothly with other aspects of the course such as excursions, local visits where possible
• Liaising with Peak Leader Manager on staffing requirements
• Assisting other senior managers in other general aspects of the camp management (whether directly related to the tuition programme or not)

Qualifications

• Preferred qualifications: Degree-holder, CELTA or DELTA
• Have at least 3 years’ relevant teaching experience in English language programs
• Experience with the book “Clockwise” is preferred
• Have supervisory or management experience
• Ideally have a working knowledge of at least one foreign language: French, Arabic, Chinese or German

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Owned and operated by Sedbergh School, Sedbergh International Summer School is set amongst the beautiful countryside of the Yorkshire Dales National Park with access to outstanding facilities, historic buildings and an exceptional range of outdoor activities. This exclusive course is for up to 90 students aged 10-16 who come from a wide range of countries. It caters to the individual student and delivers 24 hours of taught English per week with a maximum class size of 15.

We now have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, experienced and CELTA/Trinity qualified teachers to join our team. If you have the proven ability to deliver high quality English tuition to students with varying English proficiency levels, are willing to participate in some extra-curricular activities and boarding house responsibilities, have a flexible attitude and a strong commitment to ensuring that our students have an unforgettable summer, we would love to hear from you

The course runs from 8 July to 4 August 2012 with a mandatory 2 day induction on 6 and 7 July and applicants must be available for the full duration of the course. The position is residential with accommodation and all meals provided and one day off each week.

Enquiries: please contact the Course Director, Mr Juan Gonzalez Mendia on 0754 5004721 or email jcgm@sedberghschool.org

Applications: please complete the Sedbergh School application form (on the Summer School website at www.sedberghschool.org), attach your CV and return by email to jcgm@sedberghschool.org

EAC are currently recruiting residential and non residential teachers for summer school jobs, teaching beginner-advanced level English (June- August 2012) in the following locations:

• Ashford,
• Bath,
• Buxton,
• Cobham,
• Eastbourne,
• Edinburgh
• Hampstead
• Hastings
• Leicester
• London Bridge
• Shrewsbury
• Stratford Upon
• York St Peters.

What EAC provide:

• Full weekend induction on 23^rd-24^th June 2012 which will cover job specific duties and responsibilities, student welfare, health and safety, practical teaching tips.
• Staff handbooks and EAC syllabus.
• Weekly meetings with the Director of Studies and INSET training.
• Competitive rates of pay and conditions.
• Accrued paid holiday (pro rata) throughout the term of employment (paid at the end of the contract in addition to your salary)

What EAC require:

• Degree plus recognised qualification in EFL teaching such as CELTA/ Trinity TESOL or equivalent.
• Applicants without a degree but who hold a relevant EFL teaching qualification and experience may be considered.
• Applicants holding overseas EFL qualifications will be asked to provide details of course content/ syllabus for verification purposes.

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Please upload your CV, and include the dates you are available.

For more information please visit EAC’s website: http://www.eacworld.com/work-for-eac

LAL’s language centres employ high-quality residential staff to help our students get the most from their time with us. Whether it’s our Activity Leaders entertaining and motivating our young learners, our welfare staff making sure that our students are happy, healthy and safe, or our qualified teachers providing top-quality English teaching, our staff are vital to our success.

Last year all four of our British Council accredited summer schools proved highly successful. The feedback was very positive and this was all down to our passionate and dedicated team. This summer we are fortunate enough to have a high number of returning staff, however, as we continue to grow there is always a need for additional positive and dynamic staff to join our team.

So, can you deliver fun, communicative, high-quality lessons to overseas students of varying levels of English?

Are you able to organise and motivate a team of staff in a high-pressured environment?

Can you keep discipline in a school of teenagers whilst still giving them a summer full of activities and excursions they will never forget?

If so, you could be exactly the person we’re looking for to fill one of our vacant positions.

Our Centres

LAL has over 25 years’ experience of providing excellent language tuition and exciting leisure activities for adults and young learners across the globe (US, South Africa, Malta and England).

Our summer schools within the south of England are:

Kelly College

• Tavistock, Devon.
• 8 July to 22 August 2012
• 9-16 year old students
• Outdoors adventure centre
• This will be our 11th year at Kelly College

Taunton School

• Somerset.
• 1 July to 15 August 2012
• 11-17 year old students.
• Football school
• This will be our 6th year at Taunton School.

St Swithun’s School

• Winchester, Hampshire
• 6 July to 13 August 2012
• 11-17 year old students.
• Tennis school
• This will be our 4th year at St Swithun’s

St Mary’s University College

• Twickenham, London.
• 21 June to 17 August 2012
• 13-17 year old students.
• This will be our 3rd year at St Mary’s

All our schools are residential with a full academic and leisure programme which ensure that from wake up to lights out our students are busy learning and having fun both in the classroom and out doing excursions or activities.

All details about us and the positions available including job descriptions, full salary information and application forms are available on our website:
http://lalschools.com/service/laljobs/englandjobs/jobs-at-summer-schools.html

or email alex.kemp@lalschools.com for further information.

Home or Away?

Residential or Non-Residential Summer School?

Working in Summer Schools can be exhilarating, developmental, fun and lucrative (yes, lucrative!), depending on the choices you make.

First, you might like to decide whether you want to work in a residential or non-residential environment.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

RESIDENTIAL

NON-RESIDENTIAL

So, are you after the immersive (more lucrative) option, or do you want to enjoy a lot more freedom outside of school?

When you are researching schools, you might want to find out the following:

WHAT’S THE PAY?

WHAT ARE THE WORKING DAYS?

WHAT ARE THE WORKING HOURS?

WHAT ARE MY ROLES IN ADDITION TO TEACHING?

WHAT FACILITIES ARE THERE?

WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE FOR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH?

CAN I GET INVOLVED IN OTHER ACTIVITIES, SPORTS, LEISURE ACTIVITES etc?

Personally, I love the residential experience, the camaraderie, intensity, and variety. However, I can understand that if you don’t like those things, a residential experience could be very difficult.

Whatever you decide, good luck!

Stuart Pollard is Director of Junior ELT for Skola International Community School.

Check out our job board for summer tefl jobs with Skola International Community School.

If you wish to join the debate on residential vs non residential Summer programmes, please leave your comments below.

Hi again!

In my last article I mentioned an activity I used with my students and some photos they had taken of when they saw the Queen. Today I’m going to explain how you can do it too. You– and your students – are going to love it! Discussing pictures, videos and other documents will never be the same again, and your students will love to “show off” to parents and friends! It’s not complicated at all! Let’s go step by step.

• What is “VoiceThread”?
  “A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). You can share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.”

•  Where do I find VoiceThread?
  You can find it here.

• What do I do, exactly?
  First of all, you need to register. It’s free, and you there’s no software to install. When you’ve followed all the steps to register and have signed in, just follow these steps:

1. Click on “Create”.
2. Click on “upload” – that’s when you choose anything you want your students to discuss (an image, a video or a document).
3. If it’s already on your computer, you just need to find it and click on it. You can download as many pictures as you want.
4. Then, the next step is to leave a comment. So, click on “comment”.
5. The picture/pictures will appear, one by one, and you click on the comment box, right below the picture. It will open another little box and you will have five different options to leave a comment: phone, webcam, microphone, text or upload a video comment.
6. When you’ve finished with the comments, you click on “menu” and you have the options: edit, share or embed. What you choose depends on whether you want to post your slideshow, send the link to someone, or share it on Facebook. If you click on “share”, it will give you all the options. If you just want to post it on a blog entry, “embed” is the best one. You just copy the “embed” code and post it on your post entry.

Now you have a brilliant tool to use with your students and they will love it! I promise you. Another thing you can do is set it as a task from the beginning of the course. The students can then create their own slideshows with VoiceThread, using pictures taken during their course, ask their friends and you to comment, and at the end they will take home lovely memories of new friendships and everything they’ve seen and done, to show to their friends and family back home!

If you missed the previous article, you can see one of my slideshows here (scroll down).

See you next time!

Teacher Dani

I imagine that teaching teenagers is one of most teachers’ biggest nightmares. Especially if these teenagers come from the same country, from the same school and will be in the same group while studying abroad. Uh-oh… What are the problems a summer course teacher is likely to encounter? Let’s take a look:

• All your students (or most of them) speak the same language (not English, obviously);

•  Most of these students will insist on communicating in their own language;

•  Mobile phones, cameras, iPods and other types of gadgets will probably be more interesting to them than learning the Present Perfect Continuous; and so on.

So you might be asking yourself: what should I do? Don’t panic, I’d say. If this is not your first time teaching at summer school, you will be just fine, like the previous years. However, if this IS your first summer school, you might be a bit apprehensive. I don’t blame you at all.

Anyway, whether you are a rookie or an experienced teacher, I have some tips for you.

1) Get them interested. Get them to talk, to solve problems. Challenge them.
I have used The Apprentice with my students and it was brilliant! On BBC, once a year, they have a 3-month series, which can be easily watched online, and with subtitles, depending on the level of the students. Then, you can divide them into groups and give them the same task. Give them some time, and let them use their imagination! You can walk around taking notes of their use of language, checking what they are doing, etc. At the end of the activity, I usually ask them to “pitch” their ideas to another teacher/group who will vote which group did it best.

2) Don’t be annoyed by their use of their phones in class. Use them too!
Use their gadgets in your favour in class. Have them record dialogues, presentations, interviews, anything they can do using the language learned during the day/week. I used my students’ phone camera to record them presenting the news. They loved it, and “demanded” that I sent them the video, so they could show their families and friends. Having a blog really helped, because I usually post everything they do, and that really motivates them. Check out my students.

3) Record your students’ trips.
During summer courses, students usually go on lots of trips. Why not use their own experiences and pictures to get them talking? Last May we went to see the Queen in Cardiff Bay. Of course the students took loads of photos, and spoke English most of the time (that makes ANY teacher ever so proud, doesn’t it?), so I used their favourite pictures and created a slideshow. All they had to do was to say a little something about each picture they’d chosen. Take a look at the slideshow.

Next time, I’ll post a tutorial on creating a slideshow with voice comments.

See you then!

Dani

Don’t forget that you can make your lessons your own. It is always important to understand and adhere to each school’s policies, but being creative with your class, even in small ways, can make a huge difference.

When you’re on a residential placement over summer, one way to spice up your lessons is by incorporating items from home into the classroom. No matter what age or what level, your students will be excited to learn about your culture and to see authentic bits and pieces from your life at home.

Things you can bring:

1. Maps, postcards, and pictures of your hometown, your city or village, your school, and your neighbourhood. These will be great to pass around during self-presentations that may take place at the start of the course.
2. Restaurant menus and fast-food flyers for lessons about ordering food or learning about cuisine. These can also give your students an idea of how much the cost of living can be.
3. Holiday bits. Covering the seasons over a series of lessons gives great opportunities to talk about customs and how you might celebrate different holidays around the world. Sharing sweets for Halloween or writing Valentine’s Day cards can be fun ways to mix up lesson plans.
4. Magazines and newspaper articles. Students can look at ads to observe pop culture and fashion trends or talk about celebrities. Newspaper articles can be very useful for more serious discussions about current events.
5. Sunday cartoons and comics are also great for discussions or debates for more advanced levels. Many of the students might simply enjoy reading the colourful cartoon strips.

Other areas to brainstorm for authentic items to bring include sports, clothing, and yearbooks.

So don’t forget to add some of these items to your packing list before your big summer adventure. They will come in handy when you least expect them. If you are already on your placement and missed your chance to personally pack these items, ask a friend or relative to send them with your next care package.

Also, don’t forget that music and movie clips can always add fun to lessons. If you have internet connection at your school, you can look for music clips on musicians’ websites or YouTube.

Residential teachers may or may not be required to do extra duties. If they are it’s usually reflected in their pay. The sorts of thing you may be required to do as a residential teacher are as follows:

• Morning teaching duties.
• Organising afternoon games and excursions.
• Checking student attendance at various points during the day.
• Ensuring students behave to an acceptable standard.
• Liaising with group leaders about student welfare and behaviour.
• Dropping off and collecting students at arranged meeting points.

If you are tolerant of teenagers then being a residential teacher with additional duties can be a rewarding experience. However it can be equally daunting and stressful for those not prepared for it. If you are not good with teenagers it might be best to stick to purely English teaching duties.