After having experienced the horrors of war, children in Gaza are deeply traumatized and found it difficult to adjust to school and everyday life. This is why lessons need to be fun and not stressful. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has overtaken the mission to make school an enjoyable experience for this kids.
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This affects approximately 640 Syrian students in the UK.
For more information, please check the following webpage: http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/Olive/ODE/ELGAZETTE/
Our most sincere condolences to the family of the English teacher who was shot to death in Yemen when he was coming back from the institute where he was teaching English, by two men on a motorbike.
For more information and details, please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/world/middleeast/american-teacher-shot-dead-in-yemen.html
The understaffed state school system has made Israel's Ministry of Education launch the "Teachers for Israel" initiative, under which, 1,000 qualified EFL teachers will be recruited from English speaking countries.
TEFL-ers are required a take a subsidised course and learn basic Hebrew to facilitate a better communication with other teachers and parents.
For full story, see "EL Gazette", October 2009 edition.
Teacherworld adds:
An interesting link on working in Israel is :