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Questions about the TEFL Sector
 Questions about the TEFL Sector - Sean O'Malley, DOS at Interlang
A 4-part 32-minute interview answering a set of questions about the TEFL sector.
Tips for Teachers
Tips for Teachers - A short interview of Sean O'Malley
DOS at Interlang, speaking about his tips for CVs, covering letters and interviews.
A Blog Entry
 Business by Janice
An interesting article on an external Blog written by Janice Haywood,
Director of Human Resources of Windsor Idiomas. Topics include: "Do Academies ever get any sympathy from teachers?" in which Janice comments, ". . . running a school is like juggling with 14 different balls."
A Video-chat on English Teaching
Teaching Interesting English Classes
A 30-minute video-talk about trying to stay interesting and entertaining.
A Real Life Story of a Madrid Teacher
My Experience With Spain
An autobiographical article by Marcus Searson on his experiences with the people and places in Madrid.
TESOL-Spain 2009 Convention seeks speakers and volunteers:
 Would you like to be a speaker at next year's TESOL-Spain conference at the University of Seville (see previous TESOL Seville photos) from Friday 13th March to Sunday 15th March, 2009? How about becoming a volunteer to help us put on the best TESOL-Spain Convention ever? Please contact Jennifer Murray at speakers@tesol-spain.org to become a speaker at next year's conference. To become a volunteer contact the regional coordinator Olga Fernández Vicente at: regional@tesol-spain.org and ask her to put you to work in something worthwhile. See Conference pdf, TESOL-spain.htm and TESOL-Spain.org for more information.
Teacher Training event in Bilbao - Call for Papers:
 It’s still not too late to send in a proposal for a session in the 2nd Annual Teachers’ Conference
at the British Council in Bilbao
on Saturday the 20th of September, 2008!
- Make the most of your experience and professional know-how
- Pass on activities and projects you know work well with your classes
On the 20th September the British Council Bilbao will be hosting our 2nd Annual Teachers’ Conference. We hope to repeat the success of last year’s event by offering quality sessions covering topics of interest and relevance to our colleagues in the English teaching profession.
As a further step towards integrating the British Council’s activities into the local community, we are opening up the call for proposals to participants of our Talks for Teachers, ELT Outreach programme.
The deadline for proposals has been set for the 15th June. See the for linked here: Call for Speakers in Bilbao for more information.
Video Book Review
Practical
English Usage - A book review of Michael Swan's "Practical
English Usage" (OUP, 1980).
Eurolanguage Consultants
EuroLanguage
Consultants - an agency profile
Offers first class language solutions to companies, groups and
individuals in Madrid, Spain and abroad.
First Language Consulting
 First
Language Consulting school profile
An agency which provides a variety of in-company English classes in Madrid and surrounding areas.
Pueblo Inglés
Pueblo
Inglés School Profile
A school seeking experienced teachers to start immediately
with in-company classes, Masters courses and intensive residential
courses.
Baxter Business Services
 Baxter
Business Services is a fast growing language school with impressive
client list and more than 30 teachers who usually work with them
because of the top rates and excellent conditions.
Video-chat
Top
10 List - What academies want from an English teacher -
Personality, social skills, experience, committment, good judgment,
etc.
Video-chat
Materials I use in
my classes - A 15 minute video-chat on how I organize myself
materials-wise - besides text books, which I don't talk about
in this chat, I use Hot English Magazine's Teachers' Pack and
the internet.
Teaching Private Classes in Madrid and Spain
Working
Madrid - updated - A 35-minute commentary on a Spainexpat.com
article.
Hot English Language Service's Video
Hot
English Video - Leigh Dante talks about Hot English's employment
offer.
An Autobiographical Article
A
Bit of Guff about Teaching English on the hoof in Madrid
- Or the ramblings of a traumatized English teacher. Tom Cunningham
talks about his experience as an English teacher in Madrid.
Astex Video
 Astex Video -
Emerson Mafra and Niamh O'Brien talk about ASTEX's employment offer.
The spaces above and at right are available: Complete
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Video-Article
This is a video-article by David Overton about Carefully Controlled
Teacher Talking Time. David Overton teaches general and company classes in the center
and north of Madrid (he lives in Sanchinarro). More info:In
Company Classes.
"How can we get away from the “tyranny of the textbook”? It’s
not easy. Most of them are carefully thought out and tightly
knit. So busy teachers are mainly limited to adapting them a
bit, taking the activity out of the book, for example by dictating
the discussion questions or having students brainstorm vocabulary.
" Read more: Talking
Teachers.
Book Review Video
This is a book review by David Overton of Approaches and Methods
in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by
Jack C. Richards and
Theodore S. Rodgers.
See the video and read the review: Approaches
and Methods.
Book Review Video
This is a book review by David Overton of "The Lexical Approach"
by Michael Lewis (1993), Hove: Language Teaching Publications. See the video and read the review: Lexical
Approach.
Windsor Idiomas Video
 Windsor
Idiomas Video - Janice Haywood talks about Windsor Idiomas'
employment offer.
Vaughan Systems Video
 Vaughan
Systems Video - Aindrias Fitzgerald talks about Vaughan
Systems' employment offer.
New site for teachers with cell phones
New for teachers. The information in the employement section
is mirrored in this site for cell phones:
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