While browsing the Classified Ads of Craigslist, I noticed a lot of job openings looking for English language teachers and tutors. These are online jobs where the teacher and the student get to talk to each other using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

Thinking that this looks like a good part-time job, I did some deeper research and I found out that most of the clients seeking this service are Asians and Europeans. ESL (English as a Second Language) Teachers, as they are called, help these students obtain better English proficiency skills particularly in oral communication. In this kind of work, students are taught how to speak English in a neutral accent with proper diction and grammar.

If you can speak and write English clearly, an ESL job might be right for you. You can take your pick of countries all over the world. There are websites on the Internet that can help you launch your ESL career. ESL job seekers and schools hiring English teachers as a second language can visit the sites for reliable ESL jobs sources.

Getting to reputable sites can help English teachers secure positions in schools and companies in Asian countries and in other exotic non-English speaking communities world wide. ESL jobs offer top-notch English teachers good pay and premium positions.

Have you imagined yourself as one of the ESL teachers in another country and being well paid for it? The jobs in ESL offer you the chance of getting good compensation as well as residing for a spell in another country. So you get two birds with just a stone. You need not have teaching experience, but you need a Bachelors degree to qualify for a teaching post. But of course, you must have loads of patience and determination to succeed.

Variants of the game of bingo, usually played with bingo cards containing words or phrases instead of numbers, are increasingly popular in educational environments. Many people think of the game as being mainly for K-12 education, for example using sight words (common words that students must learn to immediately recognize in order to read fluently), or math bingo, in which students must write in answers to math problems rather than simply tick off squares. While it is true that bingo is great for K-12, it turns out that the game also works very well in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes too.

University graduates whose first language is not English should be aware that it may take more than a degree to allow them to work with Americans as clients or business partners. US companies prefer to work with those who have excellent English language skills. Even those who have already studied some English language courses in college may not yet be prepared you for the demands of communicating in English on a regular daily basis. It is strongly recommended that English college learning be advanced further through ESL (English as a Second Language) courses, which are now available online.

Avalos and her colleagues published an article in the December 2007 issue of the Reading Teacher that discussed how they modified guided reading groups (MGR) for English Language Learners (ELLs).

Certainly many of us follow a Balanced Literacy framework of Modeled Reading, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, and Independent Reading to teach reading in our classroom. The question now is how to accommodate for our ESL students in our guided reading groups?

ESL and ELL students can benefit from some very specific instruction (delivered by guided reading):

1. detailed vocabulary instruction,

First of all, a word about ESL: it means English as a Second Language and is the shorter acronym for the job Teaching English as a Second Language (or TESL). Some people who teach ESL are qualified teachers. Others are simply people who speak English very, very well; may have English as their native tongue; and are willing to teach people who are not native English speakers.

ESL Teaching Jobs