Before you accept a position, get the contract in writing, ask questions, and scan the ESL teacher forums for the experiences and opinions of other ESL teachers (e.g., the forum on eslcafe.com) and to check the reputation of the school.
If you don't believe me, take a look at some of the teachers' forums.
The Government of Tanzania spent US$390 million on allowances in 2009, equivalent to 59% of annual spending on salaries and wages or the annual salary of 109 000 teachers (Policy Forum 2009).
The results indicate that online parent-teacher group forums or blogs, web-site communications, and social media among adults that protect children are viewed favorably.
By participating in these peer-to-peer forums, teachers are really teaching other teachers.
The implementation plan also paid careful attention to well-documented strategies for successful PD implementation (Loucks-Horsley et al. 1998): providing ample opportunities for participant teachers to shape the content of their professional development, and creating a forum for teachers to reflect upon their experiences and pedagogical and curricular practices.
Mr. Freedman said he had urged the hiring of more minority teachers at a town forum last year on racial tolerance.
"You can think of a lot of moms who have more than one child, and do they ever say, 'I'm going to stop feeding my older child because I have a newborn'?" asked Pooja Sankar, 31, chief executive of Piazza, an online forum for teachers and students to solve problems.
Mr. Freedman, who moved to Westport from Manhattan in 1992, said he first urged the hiring of more minority teachers at a town forum on racial tolerance last year that was organized after racist remarks were scrawled on student lockers at a Westport middle school.
Maybe this takes the form of a mentor program and/or an online support forum where teachers can attend group meetings.
