Meritocracy in language schools – a utopia?

/ New to ELT

On the occasion of my 20th birthday as a teacher, I started to make a mental inventory of the most relevant and/or mind-forming experiences of my professional life. After a list of some ‘bests’ (see article here), today I’d like to talk about meritocracy in language schools. Premise: Meritocracy here doesn’t consider a political system in Michael Young’s sense or the idea that ‘everyone has the right to express their opinions’ but only ‘those opinions are listened to and decisions are then made based on those that are deemed the best’ (read Wired article HERE). Meritocracy in this reading means

Best of 2003-2023

In September 2003, I started teaching languages.20 years ago…Long time, no doubt. In these days, I’ve been organising my teaching materials and while doing so, memories came back to me. I reflected on old friends/colleagues/mentors, the books that had just come out when I got my degree, I thought about the way I prepared lessons 20 years ago and how I do it today. I remembered sending my CV to several language schools in summer 2023 and heading to my first job interview in September (which was actually a disaster). I can still recall some of my doubts, my determination