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ESL Teachers - Bilingual.hu Program - Hungary

school
Bilingual Program
location
Budapest, Hungary, Europe
salary
US 1200 - 1300 a month
Start date
Start August 2018
1 Year
15
  • Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School
  • Licensed Teacher, University Graduate, ESL Instructor
  • Bachelor
  • TESL/TEFL Certificate
  • TEFL certification required
  • You are a native speaker of English or a balanced bilingual
  • You have experience working with and a love of young children and/or middle schoolers
  • You are hard-working, outgoing, innovative and creative
  • You are able to form good relationships with children, colleagues and parents
  • You are able to work as part of a team but are also independent, self-starting and highly motivated
  • You are highly adaptable and solution-focused in general
  • You are also ready to navigate differences in culture flexibly and with an open mind

Ideally, you have one or more of the following: 

  • A degree in teaching
  • A government-issued teaching certificate
  • Certification in TEFL
  • Extensive experience in the classroom, ideally with young learners or middle schoolers 
  • Consideration will be given if you have other appropriate qualifications

 

     

    • A competitive salary
    • A challenging and rewarding work environment
    • The chance to work with a sizeable staff of native English speakers
    • Significant training opportunities and opportunities for advancement
    • Private flat provided
    • Airport pick-up provided
    • National health service access included in pay packet along with transport
    • Assistance with opening local bank account, doctor's visits, immigration procedures, etc. 
    • Extensive orientation and training in August
    • Year-round teacher support both in-house and with external trainer

    What is the Bilingual.hu Program?

    We are a private, non-profit, tuition-based educational enterprise operating in Hungarian state educational institutions. As such, we are a public-private partnership that has been providing unique educational opportunities to hundreds of Hungarian families since 2001. 

    What does Bilingual.hu teach?

    We operate our nationally accredited program in three primary schools and two kindergartens in Budapest and its environs. Our primary school program encompasses 1stthrough 8thgrade and involves nearly every subject in the curriculum, making it possible for teachers of diverse backgrounds to draw on their training and experience and deliver quality teaching tostudents aged 7 to 14. In our kindergarten program, children aged 3 to 7 are immersed in a bilingual environment using the 'one person, one language model'. Within this context, we provide high-quality early childhood education in English through play and everyday situations as well as set activities, resulting in successful language acquisition from a very young age. 

    Is a posting with Bilingual.hu different than a standard “language school” placement?

    Certainly working in the Bilingual.hu Program is a challenge, and involves hard work, dedication, creativity and a mind open to both the cultural interplay of living and working in Hungary and the professional development required of all our teachers as they take their prior knowledge and experience and become part of our unique teaching program. In return, we offer benefits and outcomes that few can rival. 

    What does Bilingual.hu offer that makes our program different?

    (1) We provide professional development training opportunities at multiple points throughout each school year, starting with in-depth orientation and training in August prior to starting the school year. We work with top teacher trainers, both from within Hungary and internationally. 

    (2) We offer an innovative approach to teaching, including the interactive and communicative approach favored in EFL environments as well as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in our subject lessons at all grade levels and in the kindergarten. As such, we co-teach: teachers hold lessons jointly and alternate in the leading role, switching languages throughout the course of the lesson. Students thus study simultaneously in both English and Hungarian. We are also innovating in terms of technology in teaching, integrating various online learning platforms into our program and rolling out the use of tablets in our primary school classrooms. 

    (3) Our program also offers the chance to work alongside highly experienced Hungarian teaching professionals, whose knowledge and expertise are part of our program’s offerings to our staff members. We work very closely with our co-teachers, so we can learn a tremendous amount from them as we go along. 

    (4) For all these reasons we believe Bilingual.hu offers unrivaled opportunities for development. We hope – and believe – that working in our program will allow for both rapid and broad professional development as well as the personal growth that comes out of taking on a challenge and becoming part of a tightly-knit teaching team and a truly unique learning environment. 

    Is there enough support for new teachers?

    In addition to the intensive run of August orientation and training and the additional annual visits from our external trainer, teachers can count on their school-based Team Leaders for a range of support. We also gather and share teaching material in our shared Materials Drive, and hold regular sharing sessions so staff can learn from each other in the best tradition of the teaching community. 

    What about outside the classroom? How much support is there?

    Our staff support system includes (1) an in-school coordinator, who handles all administrative matters related to the teacher’s assigned school, (2) an office manager in our central office, who supports teaching staff on a range of more general administrative details, and, last but not least, (3) an HR manager, also in the central office, who guides staff through immigration procedures and also handles all housing related matters, medical visits and work-related papers and procedures. 

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