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...

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.

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.

Six Flags!

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.

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.

camp!

Nanny. Tutor. Summer School or camp.

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