Well, at New Hope I was promised that the discipline is really good in the classes. Right now I am wondering what they meant with that: In the 11th grade the students leave the class room without asking to talk to friends from other classes during my class, the continously talk although I ask them every 2 minutes to be quiet, they don't take the exercises seriously.... In my 8th grade I even get resistance when I ask them to open the book to page 10, they absolutely NEVER pay attention, they also talk continously, yell at each other, run around in class.... However, I only do very little teaching of classes because most of my schedule has reserved spots for private tutoring for students who need extra help. But so far I haven't done any of that.
Since I had so much success finding several teaching jobs, I continued applying for my adult teaching positions. And within a week I had two more jobs. After Easter I will start teaching German (and later on English) at a private language institut in San José City and in June I will start teaching German at the Goethe Centro. Goethe exists worldwide and is one of the best institutions for teaching German. And they pay so well that I immediately agreed to also work Saturdays.
I think at the end of this school year (which is in Decemmber in Costa Rica) I will look into working more hours at Goethe and other private institutes for adult education and will completely stop teaching kids. Teaching adults is so much more relaxing and I won't lose my voice due to yelling at those students.
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