Private teacher or institute programmes?

 

When studying at a Advanced level, students must often decide between a private teacher and private lessons, or an institute and open lessons. What factors may be important? Why a private teacher? Why an institute? Why not? What's the difference? Is either worth the time and/or money?

April 2025 Chilean English Teachers’ Private Lesson Fees Survey

Survey open 1 - 15 April

Would you like to know the market rate(s) for private English lessons in Chile? Would you like to know where your fees and services stand relative to other private English teachers? Twice a year (April and October) we collect and share this information. Join us in this two-minute anpnymous survey.

Click here for the survey form for this anonymous two-minute survey.

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Results will be compiled and sent to survey participants approximately 25 April.

Complete the Contact Us form on the right for more information.

Mind Your Language, defining your School's Language Mission

Essentially no schools in Chile have defined their "Englishness", and many if not most use terms such as English as a Second language (E2L /ESL), English as a First Language (E1L) and bilingual freely, loosely and interchangeably. Defining "who we are and what business we are in" affects and determines the role and profile of English the school, the programme, contents and methodologies, evaluation, staff selection, publications - everything in fact!

English for School Administrators

Schools can be run, led, administered and governed and the differences are not always clear. In small schools, one person may perform all these functions, while in large schools and school corporations, several people may be responsible for all or even for each. While these functions are interesting to review, the English involved is both general and specialised. These Advanced English sessions develop and extend the English of, for and about school administration. 

Visual Language : a plug-and-lesson related to green energy

Teachers new to KS3, GCSE, IGCSE or IBMYP English programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This interactive online seminar provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.

Support for international teachers coming to or wanting to come to Chile

If you are intererested in teaching in Chile, we can answer your questions and also those questions you did not know you would have. This applies to English-teaching, institute teaching, and  PK - 12 national and international school teaching. The consultant and session presenter was an international school teacher and then director for 25+ years in 8 countries, whilehere in Chile, he worked for five years in a leading university in the areas of school improvement in general, and bilingual and international programmes in particuar, during which he visited over 300 schools nationwide.

Job Search support for Chilean teachers

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