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Q: Feedback on New Oriental? Heard odd rumors...

I'm thinking about possibly changing cities and have been looking at teaching opportunities. Supposedly, New Oriental has an amazing reputation amongst Chinese, so I've been doing a little research on that end, and came across a rather startling feature of the school: teachers get fired based solely on student 'voting'.

 

Essentially, popular teachers retain their jobs, while the stricter, less funny ones, etc. get fired. A Chinese friend showed me a video on youku of a teacher semi-cross dressing and dancing/singing a Britney Spears song to entertain his students (and thus keep his job).

 

Do I have a distorted understanding of the school's selection/retention process here or is this really how they do things over there?

11 years 48 weeks ago in  Teaching & Learning - China

 
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I worked there many years ago, but not at a training centre, at a k-12 school (they've been getting into those more and more). It wasn't bad (as far as a job in China goes) and certainly nothing like that happened while I was there. But then again, it wasn't a training centre.

 

Realistically, at any training centre focusing on adults, it works like that unofficially even if there is no formal vote. I'd be really careful with NO, or with any other adult training centre.

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Sounds like a typical Chinese School, but New Oriental treats their foreign and Chinese staff well, this I know

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At New Oriental students grade their teacher, at least in Summer camp. Two Chinese staffers per class of 20 students were pleasant and help full last year.

 

I agree with techezee, New Oriental treatment is the best of all Schools I worked in my few years in China.

 

I will try to get full time job after this year's Summer camp.

 

  

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True the students grade you so it helps to be entertaining. Fortunately I have never heard of or seen anyone cross dress and sing, but it helps if you sing well. You WILL get sick of Westlife requests. And Justin Beiber. For goodness' sake his songs are awful ...

 

OK singing covers 5 minutes of class. Just keep them, not you, talking. I speak specifically of the advanced classes. Anyway, you know what to do.

 

They do treat you well. 

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It is bad place don't take your children there.

icnif77:

How do you know 'it is bad place'? You must tell which School is that bad, please?

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There are cookies, bookies and too many rookies for me to sit here trying to be a hooky! Looky Looky don't call me a wooky. Touchy Touchy Feely Feely Spicy Spicy Nicey Nicey & that's what the doctor Ordered!!

 
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have to agree with 99sprite. You don't really want to know why they so successfully among chinese....besides, how many chinese enrolling themselves in new oriental do this because they truly want to learn or improve their english?

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