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Q: Are Chinese students allowed to have cell phones in class?
11 years 31 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
How can they gain face in front of their classmates if they can't carry their iPhone's to class?
I teach in a private school, and I mainly teach young adults, i.e. 18 - 25 year olds. I allow phones as the students are adult enough to know not to use them and if I didn't they wouldn't come to the lessons which means the school wouldn't get the money which means I wouldn't have a job.
If I was teaching in a Uni / school then I would have to think about how many students in a class, (the more there are, the more chances of phones being disruptive), school / uni policy, and whether I could be arsed with all the bother constantly telling people phones aren't allowed.
Of course if i was conducting a test / exam then they would be banned and it would be VERY clear any phones found in use would mean an immediate fail of that exam, whether or not they were being used to cheat.
Of course they are. However, they're always required to put the phone on silent or turn it off during classes. But, nobody actually abides by that rule. You should see the amount of classmates who are busy with their cellphones for an entire class: watching movies, reading, playing fruit ninja, on qq, whatever. Every now and again a few students will even take a call during class and duck under one of the tables to talk.
And when exam time comes around, some use their phones to cheat, even when teachers say that phones should be put in bags and the bags in front of the class. I, don't have the nerve to do that, am too big a wimp.
Any student I catch with a cell-phone in class, said phone is confiscated and given to my boss. The students can get them back, BUT it takes effort to go to the office and request the phone (we have two campus'). Also, my boss is very strict and he scolds them before returning the phones. So, after the first week or two, I never have this problem again.
I used to allow cell-pohone dictionaries, but there was too much "cheating". Now, only book or electronic ones allowed.
University students and probably training centres are allowed.
As for middle and high schools - no way! The Chinese teachers will go up in arms and take away the phone (even for whole semesters). The foreign teacher is then seen as more lenient towards this matter, so my advice to have some level of strictness when it comes to phones or you'll just get walked all over.
at my age in the school, so poor even did not have a cellphone...
What the miserable life ...
I work with university students who want to study abroad, so my classes are more 'western' in discipline. So no phones. I remove phones from students and let them have them back at the end of the week. I get tears and tantrums. A another foreign teacher i know starts his first class of the semester smashing a phone in front of the students to show his attitude to them - class !!
sorrel:
i remove the cell-phones from students who use them in class - not those who have them turned off. One class voluntarily put all their phones on a front desk at the start of every class - more time was then available for the actual class!!
Yeah they are. I dare you try to take their phone for a week or for even a month. That phone could be used for emergencies and for them calling their parents. Trying to hold it for a week or a month? What's got into the education system. Just tell them to turn it off and if they use it during class you have the right to excuse them from your class and give them some form of punishment. Confiscating the phones just because they have it doesn't make sense! 
He he, I said: "phones"!
https://metro.co.uk/video/girl-throws-dads-phone-sea-wont-down-1744398/
This girl should get an award from the Queen herself. you go girl.
