Thank you for the sound advice.
Great ideas and questions, but again, nothing I have not thought of or acted on.
I have since met with other course providers in the country (who are experiencing the same problems) and teamed up with an employment agency. I won't go into the details.
Thank you again for your consideration.
J
Hello James
You don't state what your company offers in the way of teacher training - CELTA, TEFL, TESOL?
Without going into specific details of your business, (not asked for), here are a few questions you might consider: -
In asking "you" I also include the people you employ.
Don't feel obliged to reply but I would suggest that it is not good business practice to pay students to attend, even if you have trainee teachers raring to go and their fees are in the bank! It sounds like desperation, frustration or maybe just putting out feelers for a business opportunity. Sorry, but I've given guidance before, only to find out later that I was being duped!
Hi all,
I run a couple of language schools and teacher training schools around Europe. The problem I am writing about is to do with teacher training.
Lately my staff and I are finding it more and more difficult to find learners for our trainees to practice on. The unwillingness of 'guinea pigs' for lessons with training 'teachers' is understandable but never really caused a hassle in the past.
It is more the lack of people interested in attending these lessons that I am having a hard time understanding.
I have tried offering free lessons, charging for lessons in a bid to make them feel like they 'have to' attend simply because they've paid for it and on our last course I even paid people to come. Now, I have run these courses in small towns and big cities in English speaking countries.
Where does it end?
If there any other course providers that are experiencing the same problem I would love to hear from you, or anyone else with good ideas.
Cheers
James