Teaching Chinese Students with special needs: How can we help? Here I discuss my first hand experience teaching Chinese students with special needs. All names have been disguised. During morning exercise, within a crowd of 300 students, Stanly puts minimal effort into his motions. Much of the time stopping at…...
ESL in China The Future (3)
ESL in China Warts and All Being part of ESL in China has made me feel anything but “big,” it’s respectfully made me feel very small. Which I’ve come to very much appreciate. China, a world leading power, is progressing faster than ever in its education system. It’s taking on…...
ESL Teacher in China: Part 2
ESL Teacher in China As an ESL Teacher in China - it has made me feel anything but “big.” It’s respectfully made me feel very small, which I’ve come to very much appreciate. China, a world leading power. It is progressing faster than ever in its education system. It’s taking…...
ESL in China The Future Part 1
ESL in China: New To Teaching Teaching ESL in China has made me feel anything but “big,” it’s respectfully made me feel very small, which I’ve come to very much appreciate. China, a world leading power, is progressing faster than ever in its education system. It’s taking on new ideas…...
Chinese High School Debating China
Chinese High School Debating Competitions I still remember in late 2015 receiving an unsolicited approach from someone claiming to be from the National Chinese High School Debating League of China. I had never heard of the organization, but I had fond memories of debating in high school, so I opened…...
China Expectations vs Realities by Lindsay Daitch
Before coming to teach in China, I had a vague idea of what exactly I was getting myself into. My friends and family had asked me multiple questions about the job that I could not answer. Yet, I still thought that I had done a thorough amount of research…...
Teaching in Primary Schools Survival
Teaching in Primary Schools It was the middle of my fourth week teaching in primary schools in Shenzhen at 5:12pm in the convenience store at the bottom of my apartment building. This was not my first visit here, nor was it my first time stopping here immediately after work buying…...
Teaching Abroad: 8 Epiphanies
Teaching Abroad I’ve slowly become a person who believes that ‘everything happens for a reason', as cliché as it may sound. Truthfully, I never prepared myself for an teaching abroad in China. For someone who decided to move to the opposite side of the world, I didn’t consider a lot…...
Teaching in China by Leanne Overby
Teaching in China My Experience Flashback to July 2016.It’s 9:45pm on Wednesday night. I’m sat at a table in front of my laptop in my parent’s cold basement (they love to crank the a/c in the summer). I’ve logged into Skype and am eagerly waiting for SDE’s call to start…...