Summer Employment for Teachers

[Anonymous]

Other than teaching at your respective school district, what other opportunities are out there for teachers who wish to work this summer?

[Anonymous]

Nanny. Tutor. Summer School or camp.

[Anonymous]

camp!

[Anonymous]

Camp, child care centers, rec. centers, lifeguarding.

The most $ per hour though, with the most flexibility, would be waiting tables or bartending. Obviously unrelated to field.

[Anonymous]

Summer Camp Director. I did that when I was teaching before I had kids.

My daughter is a teacher and teaches swimming lessons a few days a week during the summer.

[Anonymous]

Six Flags!

[Anonymous]

I used to spend summers teaching at an English Language School for adults/college students. It was a great, relaxing job: the lessons were easy to plan (Business English, conversation, etc.), and the students were polite, motivated adults. If that job had payed a real, livable wage (I think it was something like $30 an hour, with something like 25 hours a week), I would have done it full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to spend summers teaching at an English Language School for adults/college students. It was a great, relaxing job: the lessons were easy to plan (Business English, conversation, etc.), and the students were polite, motivated adults. If that job had payed a real, livable wage (I think it was something like $30 an hour, with something like 25 hours a week), I would have done it full time.

Where is this company? That sounds like a great opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to spend summers teaching at an English Language School for adults/college students. It was a great, relaxing job: the lessons were easy to plan (Business English, conversation, etc.), and the students were polite, motivated adults. If that job had payed a real, livable wage (I think it was something like $30 an hour, with something like 25 hours a week), I would have done it full time.

Where is this company? That sounds like a great opportunity.

Google DC English Language Schools and you will find multiple ESL schools for adults and college students. I advise you to contact them all and let them know you are a teacher looking for summer work.

I was in Boston, not DC, but there were many ESL schools there, and I see there are multiple similar institutions in DC. I remember interviewing with 5 or 6 of them, but when one of them hired me, they made it clear that they would be happy to have me back the next summer, so I pretty much had a guaranteed summer job there from then on. There were some other teachers doing summer work, and I think the director appreciated getting experienced staff that way. I live overseas now, but I am still in contact with some friends I made teaching ESL in summers, and I am still friends with some of the adults I taught back then. In fact, one student, who was a college student when I taught him, is bringing his wife and child to stay with us in April for a vacation.

My favorite colleague was the published novelist who taught at the ESL school just to make himself stick to a regular schedule. His students got SUCH a great deal! We also had an ex-Catholic priest who had done academic work on an obscure dialect of ancient Hittite, and a few trust funded relatives of well-known political families. The staff was such a varied, fascinating group. Again, I wish this kind of job had offered a real salary...