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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.  [/quote]

Where is this company?  That sounds like a great opportunity.[/quote]

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...

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