A language school leaders response to teachers' financial difficulties.

Many teachers are struggling to make ends meet. How far should we take responsibility and try to help? What could we do? We're feeling the pinch too. We live in uncertain times and, in many parts of the world, we in English language teaching are in a contracting market. What can we do to help our colleagues and, hopefully, ourselves too?

“Managing in TEFL” is a fortnightly companion for language school leaders. It is brought to you by Active Language Teacher Training, www.activelanguage.net, providers of Trinity Dip and CertTESOL and Teaching Younger Learners courses.

We love our jobs; we care for our students, we're passionate about teaching but is it enough? Financially things feel tougher than ever; many of us are struggling to get to the end of the month, and on top of that, Christmas is coming. Many TEFLers are in trouble. What can we do?

The TEFLer is a fortnightly companion for language teachers, written by Simon Pearlman and brought to you by Active Language Teacher Trainingwww.activelanguage.net

TEFLing is rarely well paid and we accept that. Until recently, most of us have received a living wage, meaning that we can live reasonably well on what we earn but there's never been much wiggle room, very few of us save at all. But now things feel tougher than ever. Why is that? Why do we feel poorer than ever?