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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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teaching profession?

0 Apparently, the average career of teacher of English is around 15 months - the time it takes in many professions to aquire the basic experience from which to develop. Moreover, this usually follows years of specialised study. As it's possible to become a 'teacher' after a 4-week course (and there are many who are invited to slip through even that) at what stage, if at all, can TEFL be seen as a 'profession' and the people employed in it become 'professionals'? 0-
  

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0It's the same as sports: If you take money for doing it, you're a professional. 0-

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  • 0It's the same as sports: If you take money for doing it, you're a professional.
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0It's the same as sports: If you take money for doing it, you're a professional. Otherwise you maintain your amateur status.0-
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0 So, if you had to pay the office cleaner (no offence to office cleaners intended) to stand in for an unavailable teacher, that person would be a professional?0-
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0It's probably the same in every profession. You find people who are dedicated and those who are not. Some are good at their job, others less so. Some regard their job as merely a means to an end. 0-
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0 TEFL is, in fact, a profession, although not all of the people working in it are professionals.  I think that being a "professional" means trying to improve one's own teaching through training, keeping abreast of developments in the field, and soliciting feedback from colleagues and students.  As for the fifteen months threshold, I think that one of the problems in the field is that teachers a
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