If teaching is not your first job or you have been in any situation where you need to work with other people, you can probably remember a time when you were in a dysfunctional team. Teams can be the one of the most rewarding and powerful part of a job when working [...]
1. Immerse yourself in the Chinese language. Yes, it’s possible to learn Chinese back in the West but only in China will you get daily practice in Mandarin and really hone your skills. Everywhere you go, there’ll be spoken and written Chinese because so few people know much [...]
We have all experienced that moment whilst teaching students a foreign language. A blank or bewildered look, sometimes causing them to revert to an “I don’t understand” in their mother tongue. This reaction to an attempt of giving instructions can be unsettling to a new teacher, and cause one to feel like [...]
