{"id":105,"date":"2015-07-30T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/30\/ten-freelance-teacher-essentials\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:05:06","slug":"ten-freelance-teacher-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/07\/30\/ten-freelance-teacher-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Freelance Teacher Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I began teaching freelance and for agencies about five years ago I haven’t had the benefit of an office in the same building I work in except for two of the regular gigs I have. With this in mind, here are my essentials.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cheap Pens<\/li>\n

    You will lend pens out and forget to take them back in at the end of the lesson. The cost mounts up,<\/p>\n

  2. Earphones<\/li>\n

    With these you can prep listening exercises on public transport or find supplementary\/alternative materials.<\/p>\n

  3. Authentic materials\/Realia<\/li>\n

    Menus, transport maps, leaflets, etc. can be exploited in lessons.<\/p>\n

  4. USB Drive<\/li>\n

    Not all convenience store printers will print directly from smartphones\/tablets. Carry your materials on one of these. Periodically copy stuff back and forth. Cloud storage is a handy backup, too.<\/p>\n

  5. Plastic folders<\/li>\n

    Can keep documents inside without massive creases. May also work as a desk when on the train.<\/p>\n

  6. Scissors\/Swiss Army Knife<\/li>\n

    For cutting paper into strips or bits.<\/p>\n

  7. Envelopes<\/li>\n

    For keeping tiny bits of paper inside.<\/p>\n

  8. Dice<\/li>\n

    Useful for ad-hoc games or random selection of student\/task type\/anything else that has six options.<\/p>\n

  9. Notebook<\/li>\n

    Monitor stuff students say. It can and will be a goldmine. You can use it for examples of common errors, more authentic gap fills and even just for reflection on task performance.<\/p>\n

  10. Post-its\/Index cards<\/li>\n

    These work as bookmarks, vocabulary cards, cue cards and more.<\/ol>\n

    Also, it’s useful to have a big bag to keep them in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Since I began teaching freelance and for agencies about five years ago I haven’t had the benefit of an office in the same building I work in except for two of the regular gigs I have. With this in mind, here are my essentials. Cheap Pens You will lend pens out and forget to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,177,282,284],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}