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Teaching around Todos Santos/ Pescadero?

Baja161 - 7-14-2011 at 03:39 PM

Buenos Tardes, Well my wife is a ELL, ELD, Language arts & Drama teacher for 9 years and we would like to relocate to the area with our family, Can she find work tutoring or teaching in the area? Would like to get some feed back... If I can find her work she will make the move!!!! Any help would be appreciated. Thanx :bounce:

http://www.mexperience.com/working/

Mulegena - 7-14-2011 at 04:43 PM

a good place for comprehensive information

Baja161 - 7-15-2011 at 09:03 AM

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Originally posted by Mulegena
a good place for comprehensive information



Thanx for the info....

[Edited on 7-15-2011 by Baja161]

tiotomasbcs - 7-15-2011 at 09:10 AM

Welcome, amigo. So you to have fallen in love with our little Paradise?! It's great living year round down here surfing and enjoying lots of friendships. Work? Another thing. Lots of Teachers both retired and younger. Tutoring jobs vary each year for both younger kids and High School. Quite a few people attempt to piece together a few students but it's temporary at best. It's also a pay cut for most Credentialed Teachers w/ BA Degree. Before I retired as an Elementary School Teacher I came down on most Vacations--give me a week or more and I was here! What are you going to do for income if I may ask?? Suerte Tio:coolup:

Baja161 - 7-15-2011 at 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by tiotomasbcs
Welcome, amigo. So you to have fallen in love with our little Paradise?! It's great living year round down here surfing and enjoying lots of friendships. Work? Another thing. Lots of Teachers both retired and younger. Tutoring jobs vary each year for both younger kids and High School. Quite a few people attempt to piece together a few students but it's temporary at best. It's also a pay cut for most Credentialed Teachers w/ BA Degree. Before I retired as an Elementary School Teacher I came down on most Vacations--give me a week or more and I was here! What are you going to do for income if I may ask?? Suerte Tio:coolup:



Hey Tio, Thanx I have been in love for a very long time lived in Cabo 93-99 had the surf shop around the corner from El Squid but have really loved Pescadero even back then but as for work I have some online business we do some art I am kinda a jack of all trades, our good friends live there maybe some investing like to get the wife teaching she is an exceptional teacher and we would like to do some small theater play house possibly, I have alot of off-road racing connections we just want to fit in.......surf, fish, raise our kids away from the social mayhem of So Cal!!!!
:yes: Thanx JB

shari - 7-15-2011 at 11:44 AM

JB...is your wife fluent in spanish then? I tutored for years, organized a little school and taught at university here in baja sur where I made about $2.50 an hour....my private classes were more lucrative at $5 an hour...split between 5-6 students and even then my students had trouble paying for their classes....so expect a big pay cut. It's pretty maddening too dealing with students who dont show up...get behind...dont do homework etc....but yeah...sure work is possible but make sure you get the proper type of visa for it.

Baja161 - 7-15-2011 at 02:53 PM

Shari, Thank you for that info she is not fluent now but is doing some coarses she is under contract until the end of the next school year so we are planning it out. But dealing with the students she teaches now at a middle school 7th & 8th grades about 85% Hispanic and impoverished. So she deals with the same challenges here but gets paid a bit better than that ...lol, but she lives and loves it, its not the money just wants to make a difference and would probably benefit the children there greatly.... Do you know will she need that TEFL cert rite away just to start tutoring for the rite visa? Well thanx alot for your help I love your guy's setup there looks beautiful........We will have to stop by :biggrin:...JB

shari - 7-15-2011 at 05:19 PM

I dont think she needs that certificate but she may need to prove she is qualified to teach and will need her university records translated into spanish for immigration purposes.