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Q: Is teaching kindergarten as awful as they say?

Kindergarten pays best, with salaries usually hovering around and over 12,000 RMB, but I've heard some people say its monstrous.

Anyone have any experience teaching small kids in China?

12 years 38 weeks ago in  Teaching & Learning - China

 
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is not that bad as they say it. Ofcours if you work for a big company as EF yeh that is sucks. Me i'm making over 15000 rmb a month in shanghai. 5 days a week. where are you form ? maybe i can ask my mannager if he need someone?!

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i had a very bad experiences with some kindergartens in Chengdu. i really dont like to work in kindergartens .

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No it is worse

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Spent a few months teaching kindergarten at EF, having to put on puppets, dancing and singing songs. Can't say I enjoyed it.

If you love little kids, you'll have a good time, but it's really exhausting. Even a class of just 10 kids can be hell, as they scream, hit each other, drool, lift chairs to smash on other kids, etc...

It's like Kindergarten Cop, only worse. And you feel dumber every day.

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I stand firm on my words....I use to work at one of the kindergartens controlled by CIEO (Canadian International Education Organization) and I loved it there. It was a great experience teaching children and through them, you reach out the silent child hidden within you.

If you can come up with a good system and organized way to control them, you can control any child of any kind in no matter of time. You may experience a little shrewdness and that's because as everyone is aware that families are allowed to have one child and the child comes to you with an uptight attitude and with a humongous patience, you'll have to fix that kid and show him how to share and not always act like an empire of some Chinese dynasty.

I have had kids of that kind and I always implied Isaac Newton's 2nd law.." To every action, there's an opposite equal reaction." and before you know it, the kid was already on his/her knees begging for points or candy or sticker.. Shy Shy Shy

That's me... Laughing out loud Laughing out loud Laughing out loud but I love kids...
BUT what bothered me the most was the management of the CIEO...I hated it Angry Angry ...it was one of the worst managed kindergartens ever with no cooperation among the TAs (Teacher's assistance and the English teacher) and whoever had connections with the co-founder always ended up with a nice ass-kicking office as foreign manager (who by the way was not qualified enough to blow his nose) and a flexible schedule such as below

Monday to Friday - 9.00am to 11.30am (Check out how hot the TAs are and if not, fire them and hire hot ones) 11.30am - 2.30pm (hang out in a cafe and browse the streets for hot TAs) 2.30pm - 3.30pm (attend a part time job and earn more money cuz 12000RMB isn't enough to cover up the expenses of the mistresses (they are all TAs)
Sat to Sun - Hit the bar and make a check list of TAs at the bar.

It always ended up as the co-founder (Canadian) who obviously had different teaching ideas was not in-direct proportion with his wife (who was a Chinese (Cantonese). He trained the foreign teachers and instructed them with buddy system, point systems which was good and more of an international type of way of teaching whereas on the other hand, the wife did the opposite...she use to instruct the Chinese TAs to get back to her to whatever the foreign teachers wanted to do in the class or the school and in the end, nothing use to can done except the foreign teachers leaving the school with frustration...The non-qualified ones use to go to work just for the sake of the money and that they needed to survive and make a living. Shock Shock Shock Shock and that's what makes the smart ones feel dumb!!! Wink Wink Wink
I know one of their kindergarten's foreign manager is a DJ in a club...night hit the club and morning hit the TAs booty...It's all a mess..

Whoever wants to work there, wish you all the best... Cool

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im working for one now. i like it. but then im good with kids. but i can see how it can be a pain for many people.

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I've considered kindergarten, as the pay is sometimes very very good. I've even spent a few days in a couple without signing a contract.

It looks like the hours can be extremely long, with literally thousands of students (one school wanted me to do something like twenty 15 minute classes a day; it would be impossible to ever get to know your students that way, or even teach much at all. Just a big minstrel show for the parents, really). My real problem is that every kindergarten has cameras in your face at all times, which makes me too uncomfortable to deal with the children. I hate cameras.

But as with any type of school in China, I am sure you could find a good one if you really really really looked and had a good deal of luck.

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It depends to you i love kids and i think asian kids are the most lovely kids in the world some time what they say or what they do makes me laugh and tears come from my eyes Laughing out loud Laughing out loud

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I cant speak for Kindergarten but 5 to 8 years al a joy to teach and some are so intelligent. I have my wife with me in these age group so there is order and not much noise until you tell them its time to play.... then its madness but fun....

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