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The AEPD reminds us that asking if a candidate has had COVID-19 goes against the Spanish data protection law.

Posted 22 June, 202022 June, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

Would you be interested in an online meeting with academy owners and other teachers?

Posted 17 June, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

“The myth of the native speaker”. A splendid interview with David Crystal

Posted 11 June, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

A summary of the de-escalation process for academies. Coronavirus.

Posted 30 April, 20201 May, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Sin categoría

I’ve tried to unravel and translate the information we have up to this date about what they are calling the de-escalation phases for the coronavirus confinement. Not an easy process, and some details will change […]

SEPE allows FUNDAE course to be taught through Virtual Classrooms. Here are the conditions.

Posted 23 April, 202023 April, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

“Programa Continúa” : financial help for those self employed, in Madrid, who have lost less than 75% but more than 30%

Posted 20 April, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

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 […]

How to know if your unemployment request is registered in SEPE. Useful in ERTE and ERE situations.

Posted 17 April, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

I know many of you are worried about receiving your unemployment benefit due to an ERE or ERTE. Many do not know if they have followed the correct procedure or if their company has filed […]

You can’t build an online academy in two weeks. It takes time and money.

Posted 3 April, 20203 April, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

After some articles about online resources, and my experience with some of them, I wanted to stop and warn all newcomers to the online world. IT TAKES TIME AND MONEY. IF you want to create […]

Everything Is Going To Be All Right – Derek Mahon. For all teachers and academies out there.

Posted 28 March, 202028 March, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

We are all, worldwide, going through rough times. Academies and teachers have been struck heavily by the economic effects of this pandemia. So here are some words of encouragement and support. We will survive this, […]

Big Blue Button: our tool of choice for video classes. Online teaching tools part 3.

Posted 25 March, 202025 March, 2020 smythsys2 CommentsPosted in Blog

Another article about online tools for teachers. Part 1 dealt with video conferencing software, and we wrote about the most famous ones. But we did say our tool of choice was Big Blue Button. So […]

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Online classes should NOT be cheaper than face to face classes.

Posted 20 October, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

At Smyth Academy we have been teaching online classe for more than five years now. In Spain it has been a handful to convince people to “go online”. The COVID confinement changed all that. I […]

Second Meeting of Academy Owners: 16th of October.

Posted 12 October, 2020 smythsysLeave a commentPosted in Blog

So, as promised, next Friday we will be having the second meeting of Academy Owners (A.O.). I’v been very pleased by both the positive feedback of the first meeting, and the amount of new requests […]

First online meeting of TEFL academy owners. First of many!

Posted 4 October, 20204 October, 2020 smythsys2 CommentsPosted in Blog

At last! On Friday were finally able to organise something which we had been trying to do for AGES (at least two or three years). Our first meeting of academy owners. Due to obvious reasons, […]




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