Teachers Madrid

The school year is finally starting, and academies are gradually opening their face to face classes. But if schools, having the government, and “comunidades autónomas” behind, still don’t know what protocols to follow, imagine academies […]

NB: Part of this article is thanks to Cristina Lizarralde, a teacher from a group of TEFL teachers who reminded me we should write an article about ERTEs and IRPF 2020. Thank you Cristina for […]

We have all received a blow with this unexpected pandemia. But I am one to extract positive conclusions from even crisis such as this one. I’ve been saying for a long time now, that the […]

The confinement is over, we have left (I hope)  the worst behind. So it is time to prepare for “the new normality” (what an awful term). It is time to evalute TEFL teaching in Spain […]

Most teachers will be sending CVs to future employers for the next academic year. And many centers are doing their interviews now. During these interviews, due to our current situation, some companies are not taking […]

As I’ve said before (in this blog and on my youtube channel), I am convinced one of the main problems in TEFL is the lack of information. Teachers and (surprisingly) academy owners, do not really […]

I’ve just watched a delightful interview with David Crystal, and thought many of you would find it interesting. In this fragment of the interview, David talks about many aspects of the English Language, including “the […]

Last Friday we finally received good news, SEPE allows academies and companies to use “virtual classrooms” for subsidised training. This came out on the BOE of the 17th of March: https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2020/04/17/pdfs/BOE-A-2020-4506.pdf They do set up […]

As some teachers have said they found these articles useful, I’ll continue to share news and updates which might help. Specially to those who don’t have legal advisors or who have problems with the Spanish […]