Welcome to ESL watchdogs, first posting.

Welcome to ESL watchdogs first posting. We at ESL watchdog are proud to bring you a web site that is designed to help foreign Teachers that teach English as a second language in other countries.

In this Blog posting I hope to give you a little insight as to what ESL watchdog can offer you and help you in understanding the different cultures, the different laws, and the different ways things are done in the particular country that you are in.

Over the next several weeks we hope to better inform you about that country that you are in, so that you will have a better understanding of some of the things that you will be dealing with in that country.

The Countries that we will be reporting on are:

• Korea
  
• Japan
  
• Plus other Asian Countries
  

We hope that by being able to supply you with the necessary information and background. You will be able to understand the different ways an employer in another country treats you. Of course this website is not meant to scare you off, it is meant however to better inform you so that you can deal with a day to day activities, and problem that arise in other countries. There are some however players in different countries that take advantage of the fact you do not know the laws in the country that you are teaching in.

Unfortunately in many countries, that will try to abuse your labor by either working you long hours or telling you that you must work these long hours because it is the law and you have signed a contract. Other problems are compensation for your services, many employers try to shortchange you as the teacher or in some worst cases not pay you at all. This is one reason why ESL watchdog was established, to help foreign teachers from other countries that teach English as a second language.

Our hopes at ESL watchdog are that we can better inform you so that you have the knowledge as to what your rights are so that you are not taken advantage of as a teacher.

ESL watchdog will have a website set up in the coming days you'll be able to go to this web site to find information on Visas, the current laws in that particular country you are teaching in, possible job listings for English teachers in a particular country or countries, along with help for you the English teacher with teaching plans, worksheets, games, etc.

However our biggest reason for starting ESL watchdog is to allow the teachers to come to a web site where they can look up information on the company that they are about to be employed with, the information that can be found will be their track record of that particular company or school.

ESL watchdog creating a blacklist of the company's and schools and that are terrible to work for "IE they do not pay you all of your salary, the work atmosphere is hostile towards the foreign English teacher, company's or schools that do not take care of their obligations thus taking money that the English teacher worked for by giving some reason that they had done wrong and making the English teacher pay money."

This is the main reason that ESL watchdog was started, we want to have a place where Teachers can go to post WARNINGS about companies and schools that cheat Teachers out of their money. You as the teacher work hard for your money, so why should you allow them to take your money.

That is why we are asking you keep checking back from time to time as the site is being built. There will be an area for you to post comments, thoughts, and your horror stories and experiences, be it good experiences or bad experiences, we want to know them. That way, we can build a list of the good companies and schools to work for and a list of the bad companies and school.

The web address for ESL watchdog is: WWW.ESLWATCHDOG.COM

You can also check in with this Blog to find information, you can also post a comment to an article on the Blog. This Blog will be updated frequently and we encourage you to read this Blog along with posting comments two any articles. We also encourage you two inform other teachers that you know are teaching English as a second language two visit the site. So that we can spread the word among the foreign teachers that teach English as a second language, so that teachers can be better informed.