Blog Articles About Teaching English in Europe

● Teaching Location: Moscow, Russia ● Type of Teaching Job: Freelance ● Student Age Group: Adults ● Monthly Salary: 100,000 - 200,000 RUB ($1,500 - $3,000 USD) ● Monthly Rent: 50,000 RUB ($700USD) ● Living Arrangement: Studio apartment ● Monthly Savings: 30,000 RUB ($450 USD) during the good months ● Contract Bonuses: none [caption id="attachment_24733" align="alignnone" width="900"] The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia[/caption] ⋯ By Ivan ⋯ Truth be told, I never intended things to work out this way. But that’s where we were. I had just quit the forsaken job I hated so much and had a tough decision to make. How was I going to make money in order to finance my not-so-healthy lifestyle that included regular visits to Moscow’s pulsating nightlife scene? Luckily I speak more than a few…

⋯ By Raquel ⋯ The United States shares many similarities with Germany because of a strong heritage connection. However, when it comes to the education system and what goes on in the classroom, it’s a slightly different story. Don’t let the fact that kindergarten is a German word fool you! I taught English in Germany for a school year as a teaching assistant at a higher secondary school called Gymnasium. The German education systems varies slightly by state, but generally consists of separate levels of secondary education after 4th grade determined by students’ ability. Gymnasium is the route university-bound students take that spans from 5th to 13th grade (12th grade in some states). I had the unique experience of being a foreigner teaching at a Gymnasium, where relatively few other foreigners…

● Teaching Location: Logrono, Spain ● Type of Teaching Job: Teacher in an Academy ● Student Age Group: KIds, Teens and Adults ● Monthly Salary: 1150 Euros (~$1,225 USD) ● Monthly Rent: 225 Euros (~$240 USD) ● Living Arrangement: Shared housing (2-bedroom apartment) ● Monthly Savings: 500 Euros (~$533 USD) ● Contract Bonuses: None ⋯ By Benjamin Greensmith ⋯ Living and working in Spain, can at times, not match the stereotypes and expectations that we all believe and fall prey to, me included. I write this from a rather poky apartment in a non-descript northern Spanish city. The rain in Spain falls mainly here and like much of Spain there are no never ending beaches or non-stop partying, just the ever gently flowing Rio Ebro, never ending horizons and the stress…