TUTOR ENGLISH IN FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN

Who can apply:

Nationality: Australian, New Zealand, American, Canadian, British, South African citizens who are mother tongue English speakers.

Age Group: 20 -65.  Females and Males.  

Period of Commitment: 30,60 or 90 days all year round

Visa: 90 day visa waiver, 90 day Schengen visa or EU passport.

You pay your own round trip airfare and travel/health insurance cover.

This program is aimed at travellers to Europe who would like to spend 30-90 days in any one country living in, full board and lodge, in return for mainly 15 hours a week but could be up to 30 hours a week, tutoring English.

To be accepted on this programme you must:

• Must be mother tongue English speaking.
• Speak really well and clearly
• Enjoy helping others to learn your language
• Be creative in making the learning process enjoyable
• Be patient with the people you will be helping
• Be willing and able to adapt to another culture
• Be willing and able to live as part of a family and not as a guest
• Have a sense of responsibility and a positive attitude

There are opportunities for people:

• Who do not have any teaching qualification but have an interest in helping someone learn to speak English
• Who have a TEFL or TESL qualification
• who have a University or TAFE/Technical College education whether current or completed

Placements and countries would depend on the above.

You do not need to speak the language of the country you apply to go to. If you wish to learn something of the host country language you can ask the host parents to speak to you so that you can learn enough to get around with. This arrangement would be made between yourself and the family.

You are able to choose to tutor for 30, 60 or 90 days.

You could be tutoring:

• in a school
• to groups in associations
• young adults, single or couples
• mature age adults, single or couples
• the parents in a family
• the children in a family
• the whole family

You should be flexible as to which situation is available and to where a family may be living.

Tutoring could be just general conversation, English to help in work or business or for a specific need such as a tour guide.  

In the main you would stay with the person, persons or family you are tutoring. If tutoring in a school or for an association you would live with a chosen family. Full board and lodge.  

In return for this you would spend 15 hours a week with the person, persons or family, 3 hours per week day usually in the late afternoon-early evening.

Most families ask for 15 hours a week in return for living with them, full board and lodge. So the tutoring would be voluntary.

Some program participants will pay a small stipend of say 40-60 Euro per week.  

Some program participants, such as schools or associations or families may ask for 25 or 30 hours a week tutoring and will pay 90 -100 Euro per week.

Weekends and other hours are free so you will have plenty of time and opportunity to explore your surroundings, to visit nearby places, to sightsee, visit places of interest, even organise visits to other parts of the country and possibly gain some knowledge of the language of the country.

If you are not TEFL/TESL trained you would have to think of ways and means to help the person/s to learn by using actions, mime, games, songs, movement, word games in fact anything you can think of to help them to gain confidence in understanding and speaking depending on the level they are at when you join them.   

The participants would expect to see some improvement in their language ability when you have completed your stay.  

Whilst you are free during the day, in the evenings outside of the 3 hour session and over weekends we must stress that as you will be living in someone's home you will be expected to help with general light tasks around the house such as keeping your own room clean, helping to keep the kitchen tidy, keeping anything you use clean and tidy. This would be respectful to your hosts.

Placement options:

• 30, 60, or 90 days with the same person, persons, family
• 30 days with a family in three different countries consecutively, if available and can be organised
• 30,60 or 90 days tutoring in a school
• 30,60 or 90 days tutoring to an organisation

Australian and New Zealand passport holders may enter any EU country on the 90 day visa waiver for up to 90 days at a time but with one entry and one exit only. Once you leave, after the 90 day stay, you must stay out of that country for a further 90 days before being able to return for a another 90 day stay. You can leave before the 90 days is up to go to another country but cannot return to the first country until a further 90 days has passed.

If you decide to do three consecutive 30 day stays in three different countries you can do so but cannot go in and out of these countries.

Should you wish to go in and out of the same countries a number of times during your stay you will have to apply for the 90 day Schengen visa.

If from America, Canada or South Africa you should apply for the 90 day Schengen visa.

There are no restrictions for EU passport holders.

For example, you could tutor for one month in France and for one month in Italy and one month in Spain if you wished.  We would discuss the order of the countries but applicants would have to be flexible as it will depend on what openings there are in the three different countries and when.

Who is welcome on this program?

Anyone from any walk of life as long as you fit the criteria. Singles and couples are welcome to apply.

Perhaps you are planning on travelling around Europe for a few months and would like to be a tutor of English for one of those months. You can save a lot of money by living in with a family for a while and get a great deal of satisfaction helping others to learn to speak English while learning something of the language of the chosen country.

JCR provides this program working together with their associates in each country.
These are safe and secure placements with families known to our associate offices.
All our associates speak excellent English as well as their own native language.
You will be provided with contact details of our associate in the specific countries of choice before leaving.

You will have back up and support at all times from our associates and from Sybil at JCR head office in Australia.

Call NOW to register. See Contact Us

Cost:
AU$200  Payable when sending in the required documents listed below.

This amount can be paid by credit/debit card by calling our office or faxing card details see Contact Us or sms to 0409 579 800  [+ 61 409 579 800]

We will confirm receipt and will either email or call you.

Payable on placement: For a 30 day stay AU$550; For a 60 day stay AU$650; For a 90 day stay AU$750.

Send in the following documents to P. O. Box 497, Bentleigh East, Victoria 3165, Australia.

• Letter to JCR advising; When you wish to go. Which country/ies you would like to go to. The period of time you would like to tutor for.
• Up to date CV/Resume
• Full length smiling photograph
• 1 or 2 page letter talking a little about yourself and saying why you wish to be a Tutor in Europe and help others to learn to speak English as a living, conversational language. Give a few ideas of how you would go about it. Sign the letter personally.
• Police Clearance. Finger print is not required, just a name check.
• Certificate of good physical and psychological health and no drug or drink dependency, from your doctor.
• Character reference. One is required but you may submit as many as you wish. The character reference should be from someone who knows you and can speak to your ability to be an English Tutor. The referee must provide their telephone number and email address so that we can verify.

Apply for this program 2 months before you wish to go.