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Hello again,

Just posted my travelogue a few days ago and got some interesting comments but it doesn´t seem the place to post a series of entries. To recap, got to Bogota last week, have a BA, CELTA and no experience teaching english. I´m learning more about the situation here and I´ll post something informative when I come closer to solving this puzzle that is Colombia. For now, I´d like to pay a visit to a few good schools here in Bogota. I just finished re-reading the "Teaching English in Colombia" greatest hits put together by Peter and I don´t think this is a rehash.

So I´m asking which are the good schools which begs the question what are good schools. I got my CELTA with International House which is a good cert from a good school so I have an idea what I´m looking for. A good library for teachers for starts. A DOS that knows his/her stuff. Some sort of feedback or quality control on my teaching. In other words, a place where you would want to go if you were to go to a language school.

Some personal preferences and already done thats. 1) I want to teach at least some adult students. 2) Also I´m already aware of Centro Colombo, the British Council and the admittedly slim chance of working at a university. Obviously I´m not in it for the money although I´ll need enough to get by.

Hope there´s some people that care about teaching and know of some places.

Jon

By Jon on Feb 28, 2005, 16:36 in Friendly Talkzone.

tlop says on Feb 28, 2005, 17:50:

My experience I taught English in Bogota for a while. I ended up working for a small private school (willing to hire me without a work Visa)that did one on one corporate gigs, but they have since closed. I made something like 15 thousand an hour, but spent a lot of unpaid time traveling from office to office.

I would encourage you to go to Berlitz. The pay isn't great, but it is a good well structured place. I interviewed there and they were very enthusiastic. Willing to sponsor you for a work visa, but you have to pay for the flight to Ecuador or Panama.

Hope this helps.

Dan

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YEP says on Feb 28, 2005, 18:07:

Isn't there an online directory of "educational" institutions
that offer education at the level you wanna teach.

copy paste and you have something where people can add their personal comment on a fly ;-)

Sometimes people needs a kick/some help.

And making things easy to reply/comment to also increase the risk of more people responding ;-)

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YEP says on Mar 1, 2005, 13:00:

Wauuuu .... I almost bet I found this link on PBH
http://www.bogota-dc.com/links/edu.html

Well at least I noticed it when looking into my bookmarks for something else.

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