Any teachers here, currently working in Colombia?

bufalo says on Mar 12, 2006, 12:13:

I am not a teacher in Colombia (ok I taught some english). From what I have seen and heard here from many teachers is that the only places that pay well are the english speaking schools. Who goes to these schools? The children of people who can afford them. Like, the mayor's and governor's kids...people with a lot of money. these kids are extremely bratty and from what I have seen, not well behaved. I was tutoring one who took out a knife and put the point right to my eye. I didn't freak out and the situation was handled and the kid behaved quite well afterwards. Not saying these things happen all the time, just that these kids know the world revolves around them (who else can afford the tuition? Lot of mob kids, hmm, mob and future government kids growing up in the same schools together....favors, favors, favors). Anyway the teachers I have spoken to did not teach in Bogota, rather the smaller cities. Try to speak to Caulfield, he teaches i the english school in Armenia. the same place my student was studying (the kid actually has no idea what his father does, he told me quite seriously that he was a "narco" and then later, nervously said he was a, "what was it you said before? Lawyer?.... yeah, he's one of those guys".

"If you don't like it - lump it, take it down the road and dump it." - Archie Bunker played by Carroll O'Connor

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caulfield2 says on Mar 12, 2006, 13:30:

If a public inner city high school in the US is a ZERO in terms of behavior and discipline, the Colombian schools probably rank around a 4 and maybe a 5.

Keep in mind, this is the Strato 6 or richest kids. Bufalo pretty much captured my feelings. Experiences at other Colombian schools tend to be more favorable, but don´t expect to make anything more than $500-600 per month.

Keep in mind, these kids can be a pain and disrespectful, but they don´t try to fight each other...in other words, there´s controlled chaos, versus outright chaos.

Unless you go to Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, etc., you´re not going to find an ideal classroom setting. And the pay there isn´t great, except for Japan, S. Korea and maybe Taiwan.

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jadya says on Mar 12, 2006, 15:20:

Colombian Schools JADYA
I'm a Colombian teacher. I have had the opportunity to work with children , teenagers and adults. I have worked as in public and private schools. What I think is the behaviour depends on your own class, if you try to develop funny classes, students are going to be behaved, on the contrary if your classes are boring , they are gonna be disruptive and rudes.
Anyway keep in mind that discipline has to be the most important rule in any classroom

JADYA

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Lucia Rojas says on Mar 12, 2006, 16:50:

I wish Pm's still existed tell me how to write you and I will send you info about a school I know that is looking for science teachers.

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