This is our 2022 spring summary of ESL News.
( It feels like Post 9/11 combined with SARS all over again. )
ESL in-person Teaching Jobs declined by 95% from March 2020 to March 2022.
On-line ESL teaching jobs are through the roof.
The current major influencing factors are the slow sputtering economic recovery, the lower Canada dollar, increased violence in the USA and war in Eastern Europe.
As travel lockdowns and restrictions are reduced more students will arrive.
More students means more teaching jobs in Canada. If you can get a job and be paid fairly for your qualifications and experience.
We recommend teaching in a stable established professional school with standard pay rates and full teaching resources.
Overseas teaching is now dangerous in some parts of the world as teachers have been used as political hostages - do not put yourself in a bad location.
This World situation does feel like 2001 - 2003 all over again.
Students did not want to get on a plane and fly to North America to study. We took the ESL in Canada English Camps to South Korea for 4 years.
