Blog Roundup October 17
Start writing a blog about your teaching experiences in China! There is a blogging competition being held among foreign teachers in China. They’re offering $400 in prize money!
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Teaching
Keeping your classroom interesting can be difficult at times. A good teacher needs to be very creative in order to keep students stimulated. It helps to see how other teachers are being creative in the classroom.
This teacher brought his entire family history to the classroom in a very interesting way.
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How can you connect better with your Chinese students? Consult a Chinese teacher. What Chinese teacher? Confucius.
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Travel
This ESL teacher’s recent travel blog entry has a lot of great impressions of China through foreign eyes. And a lot of great pictures!
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News that’s hard to get
Finally, this week I came across a very interesting and informative blog. The writers take a lot of time and care in digging up things happening in China that we as expats, and maybe even our families back home, just don’t hear about. Their latest post is quite eye opening. It’s about the “slave trade” happening in Fujian, China.
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