How to become a Fluency Fast teacherAre you already qualified to be a Fluency Fast teacher? Our current Fluency Fast teachers, Linda Li (Mandarin), Nahed Hazaa (Arabic), Blaine Ray (Spanish), Von Ray (Spanish), Jason Fritze (Spanish), Karen Rowan (Spanish), Diana Noonan (French), Donna Tatum (French), Mary Holmes (French), Beth Skelton (German), Katya Paukova (Russian) Our teachers are the best in the world. Our teachers have more than 100 years combined experience teaching languages WITH TPRS®. They are widely recognized as the best in their field. We didn’t train them. We found them. And we convinced them to work for us because they are the most talented, engaging and experienced TPRS® teachers in the world. Think we’re exaggerating? One of our teachers invented TPRS®. We fly our Mandarin teacher in from China . All of our teachers have presented at National TPRS® conferences between 2000 and 2007. 10 of our 11 teachers are published authors. What is your background and experience with TPRS®? Have you attended TPRS® workshops and National conferences? Are you already an expert at comprehensible input, applying TPRS® methods in a classroom and advanced TPRS techniques? Do you have a degree in education or a language? Do you have teaching experience? Then you might be perfect for Fluency Fast. Do you support the mission of Fluency Fast? We don’t want to just teach languages to adults. We want to teach large classes to lots of people. We want so many people to learn another language that it begins to tip the balance and we become a planet of people who can communicate with each other. We want adults to get over the silly notion that learning languages is hard or that it’s not important. And we want it to be inexpensive. And we want them to be so intoxicated by their first taste that took place in a very short period of time, that they’ll keep learning the language until they are experts. Would you like your colleagues? ;-) Very important. We really like each other. What language do you teach? Although ultimately our vision is to teach lots of languages, Spanish is what supports us financially. Our other languages are growing. If you teach Spanish and speak it well, we’re more likely to need you. What would I need to do to become qualified?
What’s the difference between teaching for Fluency Fast and teaching in a year long classroom? There are a lot of them. TPRS® training helps build a foundation, but adults are different in terms of their reasons for taking languages, their baggage, their attention spans, their issues, their ability to retain, the effect their age has on their ability to retain, what will make them promote a class versus what will make them ask for their money back…. How do I get trained? What if I want to do this down the road a few years. What should I be doing now?
What kind of support do I get as a Fluency Fast teacher? Who provides the curriculum? We do. Our teachers write a new curriculum each year. Who does the publicity? We do and the host does. Can I teach similar courses without being a Fluency Fast teacher? If you haven’t done Fluency Fast training, yes you can teach an adult language class. In fact, we encourage it. We want tons of adults to learn other languages. BUT, you can’t call it “Fluency Fast.” Can I use the curriculum? If you use it exactly as it was published and credit us and the teacher who wrote the curriculum, yes. Otherwise, no. Can I use the same publicity? No. We aren’t always hiring and we don’t always need new teachers, but we have recently acquired new contracts that make the demand for our classes less than the supply we can offer with our current staff. We are a growing company, and as we continue to grow we will need more teachers who believe in our mission and want to contribute to it as it germinates. If you are interested in becoming a Fluency Fast teacher, please contact us: |
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