The Customer is Always Right
It has been a while since I started teaching at York School of Foreign Languages. The “s” has always been at the end of ‘Language’, but to my [...]
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Future Employer
Congratulations! You have taken some very important steps towards starting a very successful career as an ESL teacher in China. You have found the right recruitment agency which will help you find [...]
Relationships with Parents
As expats, we quickly become adapted to “zoning out” the world around us. It’s very easy to plug in headphones, walk down the street, and ignore the sounds and actions of those [...]
Discipline, Responsibility and Classroom Management
Being a teacher in a foreign country has certain amounts of allure to it, given the fundamental reasons for people participating in this profession are money and travel, [...]
Your First Week in the Middle Kingdom
It's Your First Week in China! Congratulations on becoming one more international talent who will be in charge of an ESL classroom and launching a successful career (if this doesn’t apply to [...]
Teacher, Teacher, Come Here!
As teachers, we spend many hours preparing for our lessons, creating handouts and materials. As we go though the creative process, we are thinking: this is so easy; my students will be [...]
Lost in Translation – Part 2
As previously mentioned in another article about China, there are several differences between living here and where we are used to. There are a few things that you [...]
Lost in Translation – Part 1
Being in China is quite a strange experience, especially in a big city like Fuzhou. For a start, it would be easy to mistake yourself for being in [...]
Anatomy of a Parent-Teacher Meeting Part 2
In part 1, we looked at an introduction to Parent Teacher Meetings. Let’s continue as we dig deeper into the execution of PTMs. Planning the PTM? There are many ways to plan [...]
Anatomy of a Parent-Teacher Meeting Part 1
Educators achieve academic success in a number of ways. We do this by utilizing a number of different methodologies and philosophies, but the common factor in any kind of academic progress is creating cooperation between [...]
