KINDS OF JOBS AVAILABLE FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS IN MADRID

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ENGLISH TEACHING JOBS ABROAD

Here is the range of English teaching job types available for TEFL certified teachers:

1. Academy classes in clients houses.

– An English school contracts you to teach their clients in houses.

– You travel from one house to another.

2. Academy classes in-company.

– An English school contracts you to teach their clients in companies.

– You travel from one company to another.

3. Academy classes in schools.

– An English school contracts you to teach their clients in schools (the school is the client).

4. Academy classes in the classrooms of an English academy or language school.

– If you land a job in an Academy for the part of your work schedule, then you are often hired to be there from Monday to Friday and so this would mean you probably have block hours.
– You are usually paid less per hour (often it is a monthly wage for block hours), the classes are more intense, because you are teaching hour after hour with no travel breaks like the academy classes in houses, etc. but it gives you a more stable income. This is how jobs for English teachers in Spain work.

5. The Catholic School Program (Junior high and high school classes in the Spanish school system).

– You work as an assistant English teacher in a school.

6. Your own private classes.

– You find your own private classes with english teaching jobs abroad.

7. Summer camps

This is usually in, or near a natural setting, mountains, beach, lakes, rivers and pretty Spanish “pueblos” (villages). It is mainly in July and August. This gives you a summer income with English teaching jobs abroad.

JOBS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERs, A WAY tO LIVE IN SPAIN

1. ACADEMY CLASSES IN-HOUSES

Academies will contract you to teach classes in houses to children and adults. These classes are normally an hour, 1.5 hours or two hours in length. You will be travelling around the city and will earn around 15-18€ Euros an hour (Canterbury English pays 18-25€).

2. ACADEMY CLASSES IN-COMPANY

This takes place in the client’s company, usually in the conference room, a class room or the students office. Sometimes you are teaching a one-on-one, sometimes you have two or three students and other times you will have groups of up to ten students. The usual thing is a one-on-one, two students or a small group of 3-4 students. The one-on-one could be a secretary or the CEO, with anything in between being possible.

You may be teaching In-Company from one to six different companies in a week. We always advice teachers that the more flexible and open you are to teach adults, children, business, specialty, video conferencing, telephone english, exam preparation, the easier it will be for you to get a full schedule.

However we do understand that some teachers prefer only children and others prefer only adults and we adapt to what you feel comfortable teaching, as do most academies.

If you have come to Spain with a degree in any subject, including business administration, or you have worked in the corporate world, then this is a great opportunity to increase your knowledge of the business world and give an international dimension to your resume (CV).

You will be walking into important multinational and Spanish national companies with leading brands and will find out about how they work, as well as teaching low-level, middle level and top management, so you get all the different perspectives.

In your class you find out about the mechanics of how the company works. It’s like doing a practical MBA. The experience you gain teaching English in the business district, inside one of Madrid’s skyline skyscrapers, is highly beneficial for your future, may it be in business, teaching, or any other field.

The fact that you have taught English in top companies with top brands in a foreign country, adds a key ingredient to your background and character. It is character building, experience building and resume building all in one!

3. ACADEMY CLASSES IN SCHOOLS.

Academies such as Canterbury English will contract you to teach classes in a school to children thanks to our TEFL Spain. These classes are normally an hour, 1.5 hours or two hours. You will be travelling around the city and will earn around 15–18 Euros an hour (Canterbury English pays 18-25€).

4. ACADEMY CLASSES IN THE ACADEMY

English academies and language schools are established as businesses by entrepreneurs (in many cases started by English teachers, like Canterbury English). They are open usually in the afternoons and evenings from 3 pm to as late as 10 pm. This schedule adapts well to students timetables, whether it is children taking general English classes, or preparing for exams after school or adults receiving classes after work.

Teachers need to be able to teach all levels and ages and a variety of different kinds of exams. The TEFL course will prepare you well for this variety of teaching.

You find academies all over Madrid, in the city center, as well as in the many different neighborhoods in and around Madrid. If you have to travel a little extra outside of Madrid to get to the academy, you don’t usually mind if you have block hours.

Block hours in English teaching starts at two hours and can go up to as many as eight hours. Anywhere between two and six is normal, with four block hours considered to be a “good gig” in an Academy. However, any amount of block hours is welcome to a teacher, but of course, the more the better!

Academies have two types of payment systems for block hours, one is per hour and the other is a salary for the block of hours. If it’s a salary, it sometimes includes holiday pay. When they accept you for the job, they will let you know about the type of pay and the benefits.

Work in an Academy is good for a teacher who likes the diversity of teaching a mix of children and adults that changes from one hour to the next.

A typical block of 25-30 hours will give you a salary of between 1100 and 1300

Euros, which you can add to with private company classes at lunch time and with the added income, you can earn an average of about 1400 Euros. This depends on how you manage your schedule and how you fit in the extra classes as padding to increase your income.

5. THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM: CLASSES IN THE SPANISH SCHOOL SYSTEM

Over a decade ago, the Catholic Schools of Madrid began a program with the goal of drastically increasing the English level of the school system and introduced what has been baptized as “the catholic school program” to help achieve this ambitious endeavor.

The idea has been to make the catholic schools bilingual, with the curriculum being taught in Spanish and English instead of having English taught as individual subject.

The catholic school program involves supporting, or assistant native English teachers from the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (as well as other Non-EU nationalities), who accompany the normal Spanish teacher of the subject matter (especially English subjects, but also math, history, science, etc.) throughout the class.

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During the school year many openings occur in the Catholic School Program and that’s where CE TEFL graduates get the opportunity to jump in and fill the job.

You need a one year student visa with Canterbury English for them to hire you. Also, if you have had some experience with children at one of the Canterbury English summer camps in Spain or in your own country that will help you get the job, as well as the experience you will get teaching Canterbury English children during and after the TEFL program and any other experience that you may have with children.

You don’t directly teach the class (the Spanish school teacher does this), but rather support the teacher with games, assignments and activities in English.

The schools are usually located in the suburbs of Madrid and you would travel out there to begin usually at 9am until 3pm Monday to Friday. You are paid a salary of about 1200 Euros with holidays. You can supplement this income very easily with private afternoon and evening classes and so we find the Catholic School perfect fit for our TEFL graduates.

6. YOUR OWN PRIVATE CLASSES IN-HOUSES

If you want to market yourself and find your own clients, then you will be teaching around the city, the same as you would be doing for an Academy such as Canterbury English (and our TEFL Madrid course), with the only difference being that you can charge more for your classes when you find the client. These classes are normally 1.5 to 2 hour classes.

When our Canterbury English scheduling department sells a class to a client, we always try to get the client to do a minimum of 1.5 hours. This is how we sell it:

“Would you like a two hour class or an hour and a half class.” When they say, “I want a one hour class.” We say, “We’re sorry, but our teachers only teach a minimum of an hour and a half. The reason is that they have to travel to your house or company and so our minumum is 1.5 hours, but we recommend a two hour class as the best solution for your needs.”

Why do we say this? Because it is better for the student and you don’t want to travel half an hour there and half an hour back (non-paid) for only 18€. But you don’t mind doing it for 27€ (1.5 hours * 18€) or 36€ (2 hours * 18€) the class.

In the past we used to sell one hour classes, but we have adapted to the suggestions of our CE teachers and only in the case that the client says, “Sorry I’ll look somewhere else for someone who will teach me an hour, because I can’t do 1.5 or 2 hours”.

Then and only then, in order to save the client, we will say, “Ok, we can send the class offer to our teachers for an hour class, but we will have to charge you a supplement of 2€” (this means you, the teacher, recieve 20€ instead of 18€ for the hour class).

The client just about always agrees and then we send out the class offer at 20€ for one hour and usually there is a teacher who says it fits well into their schedule (time and location) and so we let them have the class. And we have just created a triple win situation (the client, us and you).

And we will teach you how to use the same selling techniques in our Work Orientation, so that you can sell your own privates in the same way and get a better, higher earning teaching schedule for yourself.

7. SUMMER CAMPS

Canterbury English will organize sending you to a summer camp. This usually pays about 1200 Euros a month or 600 Euros for two weeks. Room and board is included.

You usually have to provide your own initial transportation to get to the summer camp from Madrid, but you live in the summer camp during the length of your summer contract.

ENGLISH TEACHING JOBS ABROAD IN SPAIN

What Does a New Teacher Have to Show to Gain a School’s Confidence?

Naturally, for Canterbury English and other schools to confide in you, you will have to be punctual, well-organized, trustworthy and conscientious as well as being a good teacher.

You will have to show schools that they can rely on you. When the school starts getting good feedback on you from your students, then they will count on you and mentally earmark you for the new incoming classes.

Other academies, just like CE, will say to their scheduling departments about a specific teacher, “Jenna is getting excellent reviews from her In-house clients, so give her priority for a higher paying company class.”

As you gain confidence, enjoy yourself and start teaching great classes, the word will spread about you and you will start improving your schedule and this will help increase your income as a teacher.

The New Teacher VS the Veteran Teacher

You as the new teacher will soon gain the experience you need with Canterbury English clients, other academy clients and your own clients. However as you gain this experience, you will have natural advantages and disadvantages, compared to the veteran teacher.

The veteran has been doing it for years and knows the ins and outs of the market to get a good schedule. They also know their stuff concerning grammar, phonetics, class discipline and a long etcetera. They have seen many different types of students, all different levels and have encountered the many different predicaments that you can get into as a teacher with students and they have found their own creative solutions to deal with them successfully.

This is all very dynamic and interesting. The veteran can also charge more than you can for their classes and because of their experience and the length of time that they have lived and worked as a teacher in Madrid, they know where to find the good jobs.

However, you as the new teacher, have something that the veteran may not still have. This is the essential, secret ingredient that will help you set yourself up as a good teacher. And this is a heavy dose of enthusiasm, interest, liveliness and fun.

The veteran often, like anything in live, has done it all before, but you haven’t.

It’s like a first date. You may be nervous, but your eyes are sparkling with enthusiasm and as you teach the class, you’re thinking to yourself, I can’t believe I’m being paid for this. It’s so much fun I’d do it for free.

You smile and laugh a lot more: Real smiles and laughs that come from the heart. The student picks up on your enthusiasm and this actually helps them learn better and faster, than the bored veteran, who’s glazed eyes and yawning expression won’t put fire in the student’s learning process.

But you will start up a fire, and that is the key, secret ingredient that will help you rapidly increase you spectrum of students and jobs. The word will go around about you in the school you work for, the mom’s and dad’s will hear about you and want you to teach their kids as well and what’s most important, you are shaping the minds and the behaviour of the students you are teaching. You are teaching them not only the English language, but also about your culture that they love and look up to.

Yes, you are impacting and enhancing their lives, just as they are impacting and enhancing your life. And that is the beauty of a vocational career. You’re not selling them a product, you are molding their lives with your wisdom.

The English Teacher’s Lifestyle

Teaching English in a flexible way, such as this, gives you a break from the 9 to 5 world, which is probably why you came here in the first place.

Whether it be:

a) Just after you finished University and before you jump into the working world. b) To take a break from the 9-5 office life in the middle of your career.

c) After your career, when you’ve already paid your dues to that working world.

Now you’re ready for a major life and career and country change.

You Live a Much Freer Lifestyle When You Work as an English Teacher!

You also have the amazing opportunity to meet fascinating people and you become a part of their lives and they become a part of yours.

You give classes to businessmen and women, actors, film directors, singers, rock stars, top models, high level politicians, football stars, musicians, artists, because people from all walks of life need you to teach them English.

Sound impossible? It’s not, because we’ve had all these types of students in our own school. Madrid is the capital of Spain and it’s all here in this city, often right around the corner, where you’re heading off to teach.

This is another exciting aspect of the multi-faceted diamond of teaching English in Spain with Canterbury English.

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KINDS OF JOBS AVAILABLE FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS IN MADRID

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