Traveling advice over Spring Festival
Most standard ESL teaching contracts in China offer between a week and a month of vacation time over the winter break (January/February depending on when spring festival falls). So what do you do during this break? Some will go home, some will teach an ESL winter camp, and some will go traveling.
Traveling on or around Spring Festival can be a nightmare in China! With 1.3 billion people all on vacation at the same time you can imagine the chaos that ensues. I have a few travel tips taken from my own experience as well as the experience of foreigners around me.
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How does one foreign teacher make a difference in China?
After a few years teaching English in China I, like many others, felt like I could offer so much to my students. They were eager to learn and had a thirst for experiencing western culture. Many of my students dream of studying abroad and look to me for help in realizing this dream.
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Blog Roundup 8th October
Highlight: Watch a movie from this class’s ESL project and get some ideas of your own. here Read more
Foreign ESL Teacher’s Reputation (let’s not let what happened in S. Korea happen in China)
My first experience in China may have been very similar to many of yours’. I was a celebrity in a small city and it seemed as though I could do no wrong. I was a king. I had NO teaching experience whatsoever yet I was a “Foreign Expert.” This fact has created a bit of a problem among the foreign teacher community in Asia. Read more