Teachers´ Salaries (Just for the fun of it)

I’m fed up with teachers and their hefty salary guides. What we need here is a little perspective. If I had my way, I’d pay these teachers myself…I’d pay them Babysitting wages. That’s right. Instead of paying these outrageous taxes, I’d give them R$3.00 an hour out of my own pocket. And I’m only going to pay them for five hours, not coffee breaks. That would be R$15.00 a day. Each parent should pay R$15 a day for these teachers to babysit their children. Even if they have more than one child, it’s still cheaper than private day care. Now, how many children do they teach in a day, maybe twenty? That’s R$15 X 20 = R$300 a day. But remember they only work 180 days a year! I’m not going to pay them for all those vacations. R$300 X180 = R$54,000. (Just a minute, I think my calculator needs batteries.) I know you teachers will say, “What about those who have ten years of experience and a Master’s degree?” Well, maybe, (just to be fair) they could get the minimum wage, and instead of just babysitting, they could read the kids a story. We can round that off to about R$5.00 an hour, times 5 hours, times 20 children…R$5.00 X 5 X 20. That’s R$500 a day times 180 days. That’s R$90,000. HUH? Wait a minute…! Let’s get a little perspective here. Babysitting wages are too good for those teachers. Did anyone see a salary guide around here???!!!

English Teacher´s Portfolio. R U Interested?

Hello, dear teachers and friends in Brasilia.


How would you like to join a free English Course with a Certificate offered by the British Council? ETP is that course, which aims at improving your knowledge of English, including listening abilities. As it has been said, that will cost you nothing, except for an extra effort to join a class on Saturday afternoon, from 2 pm to 4:30 pm. Listening and speaking abilities will be developed during the course. If you are interested in joining us on this course, just send me an e-mail to "luiznfreitas@gmail.com", or call me at(61) 8407-7161. The course will be starting in the beginning of April (April 5th) Join us again in search for improvement of your English teaching abilities.

You can get more information here:
http://www.britishcouncil.org.br/etp/

Looking forward

Pronunciation Workshop on March 15, 2008

Hello, folks. It really was a pleasure to present that pronunciation workshop. It surely was a lotta time spent preparing it, choosing the songs and the phonemes to use. However, que question is: Was it useful for you? How did you benefit from it? Express your ideas. And should there be any topic you would like to see discussed, leave your suggestion here.

Sincerely,

Luiz N. Freitas