IH Monterrey | School profiles | Recruitment

Director: Alejandro Gorosabel
DoS: Tere Garcia Bernal
School and town profile:
Monterrey, located in the northeast of Mexico, is by far the most industrialized city of the country. The urban Monterrey has a population of about 4 million people. Fifty-five miles away from the American border, Monterrey is strongly influenced by the US in terms of housing, business doing, and mind set. The Monterrey local is quite straight forward, and hard-working.
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Hours:
Minimum 20 hours per week
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Accommodation:
IH rents several flats in Monterrey for Teachers. We arrange accommodation for new teachers in these flats.
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Breakdown of Students:
Most of our students are from the middle class. The average age of our students ranges between 25-45. Students expect firmness with a pleasant manner. They expect homework although in many cases they do not always do it. Our students on the whole expect interesting and rewarding classes where they expect to see some evidence of learning. More importantly, companies that contract our services will need to see evidence of it as courses progress.

We subscribe to the communicative approach but we believe that equal priority should be given to the student's fluency and grammatical accuracy, easily intelligible pronunciation and appropriateness to various social contexts. The job is professionally satisfying and culturally enriching.
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Facilities:
International House Monterrey is a start up so the staff consists basically of two people. One Director General, Director of Studies - English, and one receptionist. The Institute Headquarters are in “Colonia del Valle”, not far from the financial district of Monterrey. The school is equipped with computers (including wireless Internet) as well as video cassette recorders and tape recorders. There are four classrooms plus one resource centre/teachers´room. The resource centre is very small, but we expect it to grow fairly rapidly by early 2007. Teachers are encouraged to contribute to the growth of the materials bank.
The school believes in pastoral care, and the Director is readily available to help teachers with anything that they require in order to help their teaching become more effective. The Director liaises constantly with teachers to ensure that they have all the necessary materials.
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Notes on Contract:
The teaching positions we offer involve up to 25 hours contact teaching per week. If the school is not able to assign you these 25 hours, teachers are expected to help the DOS developing materials, entrance exams, etc. Teachers are paid for working 20 hours a week. If they teach more than this (which is usually the case ), they are paid extra. Therefore, teachers will be guaranteed 20 hours a week. Teachers are required to attend seminars and meetings when necessary.
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