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Teacher Jewel's Teacher Story


For the Love of Learning: A Teacher’s Tale

I’ve always loved learning. I could never get enough information. When I was three, I watched Jurassic Park for the first time. It soon became my obsession, “dinosaurs are cool, and I need to know everything about them!” I started telling everyone that I wanted to become a paleontologist, even going so far as to prove my commitment by just casually spelling “paleontologist” during conversation. Three-year-old me didn’t understand evidence, or anything resembling proof, or how to carry a conversation for that matter.

I started volunteering at an elementary school during university. I was so happy. I mean who wouldn’t like being around twenty bright-eyed and energetic kids (given a healthy dose of caffeine)?But here is where my journey as an educator really begins. A month after graduation, I moved from New Brunswick, Canada to take a job in South Korea teaching English as an Additional Language. I went expecting a first week in training. Instead, I was thrown into a class and told to just follow the book and that the kids would tell me where the last teacher had left off. Needless to say, the first few months of teaching were less than ideal and borderline cringe-worthy. Over the following few years, there was a lot of travelling, learning & teaching, and growing the hell up.---

Now, the part Carley has been waiting for; “How I got Stuck in a Foreign Country” a.k.a., the story of how I went from the brick and mortar classroom to the virtual. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who needed some surgeries to help fix some muscles in her arms. The doctors did their best and the girl grew strong, but surgery can leave scars. The little girl didn’t think much of it, until one day, her boss mentioned how pretty she would have been without the scars.

Again, and again, her boss told her, “Your arms are so ugly,” “I’m only mean because of your ugly arms,” and “You’re a great teacher but your ugly arms…” How could she be ugly? Her students called her beautiful and pretty.

The girl, now grown, loved her job. She was teaching the cutest little kids and she had a beautiful little puppy at home. She didn’t even mind having to clean up pee from the floor once in a while. But one day, she had just had enough. She was so tired of being ugly, ugly, ugly… She cried and quit her job. Maybe she should have waited for a few more paycheques, because now she was alone with her furbaby in a far, far away land. She had learned many things over the years, so she took to her laptop and searched and searched.

Then, she found it, “Online English Teachers Wanted.” She didn’t need to kiss any more toads! And she could do the things she loved everyday if she chose. She could teach, she could travel, she could get even more puppies!And so, the pretty girl and her beautiful puppy made it back home to the land of ice and snow, and hot coco next to warm winter fires.The end.---

I started working for Magic Ears in late 2017. I decided to start looking for a new company to work with after my previous company made some very unfavourable policy changes. Doctor’s notes and natural disasters, to name a few, were no longer valid reasons to miss a class. Mother nature controls the weather, not me, and I swear I told that influenza virus I couldn’t afford to be sick, but it didn’t listen. This meant that a sick day, and the like, could result in fines and the complete loss of your entire monthly bonus.

So now that I’m working with Magic Ears, not only am I making more money, but I’m a part of something great. One of the things that really drew me to Magic Ears was the compassion the whole team showed throughout the entire application process. I could tell how much everyone cared about the kids’ education. Magic Ears has created a huge support system and community, and numerous opportunities for growth for their teachers. Magic Ears is truly a family.

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If you would like to apply to Magic Ears, and would like Teacher Jewel as your mentor, sign up using this referral link : https://t.mmears.com/?referralCode=T143021





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