Hello to all of you who have graduated from BEd TESOL, MA TESOL, MEd TESOL, MA ELT, BEd TESL, PGLELT, Dip TEFL at Moray House.
This is a blog for MEd TESOL and also for all of you who were once studying at Moray House. Where are you now? What are you doing? We would like to know what you are doing now and if you have continued working in the TESOL / EFL / ESL world?
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March 30, 2006 at 4:08 pm
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Ruby
April 24, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Hi everyone
This comes from The Early Blogging Centre. How’s things?
Joan
April 25, 2006 at 9:14 am
Hello there!
My name is Simone Lindinger and I´m very pleased to leave a comment. I studied in the Med TESOL programme in the year 2003/2004 and I obtained my Master’s degree last November. I´ve gone back to Austria to continue my language studies. I´m now studying English and Spanish at Innsbruck University and I hope to become a high school teacher for these languages. I really enjoyed my stay in Edinburgh and I hope to come back sometime in the near future.
Best wishes to all of you!
Simone
April 25, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Hi Simone!
Great to hear from you.
I hope the studies are going well …
Ruby
May 11, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Hi there,everybody in the TESOL world.
I graduated with a Diploma (TESOL) after two years of cyber learning while I was teaching in Germany in 2004. I enjoyed the course very much and the teaching staff was most understanding, accommodating and helpful. I did the course to enhance my employability in the world of English as a Foreign language though I had been in the industry for a while before I started the course. I am sure the degree is very important if you work outside the UK and can help you get a good job. However the EFL/TESOL job market is very competitive in Scotland and you have to have the right name and bithplace to enter the competition.
After the return from abroad I have been most unsuccessful in seeking employment with English as a foreign language. And I do not think the Moray House degree has had anything to do with it. On the contrary it is a great asset to have. And the framed Diploma looks good on the wall too.
On a positive note, having worked for energy industry for the last two years and not in a teacher’s capacity, I hasten to add, I did not give up. And now I have been accepted to do a PGDE in English in Jordanhill and will be a secondary teacher next year. As they say in Russia, if you have been kicked out of the door, you try the window.
And no hurt feeling at all!
All the best to everybody.
Nail Gizatullin, graduate 2004.
June 9, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Hi everyone,
I have returned after some months’ absence – which seems like a year ‘cos it coincided with all the teaching for this session. Physically the last eight months have been an unpleasant experience, but it has significantly altered my outlook on life and for that I feel grateful. Coming back I found it strange that I had changed but nothing else seemed to have changed and I wondered if in fact any of you former students had experienced the same sort of thing returning to your former jobs?
It would be immodest to suggest that our MEd is – or is intended to be – as dramatic an event as having cancer, but it is, like all educational experiences, meant to be life changing. It would be interesting to know if in fact your Edinburgh experiences made a significant difference to your outlook on life – and how you feel about that.
September 29, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Hello there!
My name is Simone Lindinger and I´m very pleased to leave a comment. I would like to let you know, that I found a nice man in Austria and I am married now. So, I think I will not come back to Edinburgh.
Best wishes to all of you!
Simone