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Q: What differences did you find teaching in China?
Even if I'm not in the business, did you find differences in the way you have to teach the kids here in China compared to the techniques you used back in your home country?
10 years 44 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
-at home my teachers were no entertainer
-we didn't play games
-my teacher didnt get ripped off
-they could teach after a plan but freely how they do it
-we didnt repeat a text 50 times until everyone knows it by heart
...
etc. actually i agree with the poster above, everything.
What differences? Ok, I will list them as per my experience.
1. Everything
Finished.
-at home my teachers were no entertainer
-we didn't play games
-my teacher didnt get ripped off
-they could teach after a plan but freely how they do it
-we didnt repeat a text 50 times until everyone knows it by heart
...
etc. actually i agree with the poster above, everything.
I am not a teacher either, but from what I've heard and read:
Abroad, you teach the class.
In China, you perform for the class.
The expected teaching method is Grammar Translation Method, which was discontinued in the west in the 1930s
i was talking about esl or whatever language in my country. i learned japanese as third language and i didnt play games at all lol
Not all that different, but I work mostly with ones preparing to go abroad. I previously worked in a company where the students were not preparing to go abroad, and then I felt more like an entertainer/babysitter.
A few differences:
(1) Management style of the company, ie: getting ripped off and similar irrational behavior. On a "simlarity" note, the management I worked with in the US did micro-manage (or try to) and I sometimes felt they were more of a hindrance than a help; I feel the same here.
(2) No political correctness here. No diversity training seminars or similar BS.
(3) Kids are mostly well-behaved, but there are a few troublemakers. Actually people say that Ch. students are well-behaved but I have quite the same problems with naughty ones, there's a similar proportion of naughty ones here and back home. So actually this is a similarity.
Every other comparison I can make ends up being a similarity rather than a difference, so I'll leave it at that.
i like the experience but they really limit qualified teachers in that you must be a native speaker to be a teacher.I really dont agree that personally am from kenya and have tefl,tesol and degree and good command of english.I find it rather impolite to create unnecessary hatred in this simple humanity life.lets all co-exist.No disrespect to my sisters and brothers in native countries but common chinese schools you can do better than that...dont tell me brazil is a native speaker!!!
I am Chinese. I just finished my study in university.
I've been studying in school for 17 years, none of my teachers " perform" in the classes.
I have worked in an English training school, and yeah, the foreign teachers had to " perform", make the students happy so that they will continue study there and pay for it.
It's weird, I feel like adding " I am Chinese" here, because I do not want to pretend to be a foreigner which I am not. I don't see any good in pretending that, lol. Sometimes I just laugh when I think of the questions here.
Mateusz:
"It's weird, I feel like adding " I am Chinese" here, because I do not want to pretend to be a foreigner which I am not. "
You are a foreigner, from the perspective of an American, German, Pole, Irish, etc. That's another difference. Chinese students tend to reflect Chinese cultural views that everyone who is not Chinese is considered "foreign". When I learned Chinese in the US, we never referred to Chinese as "foreigners", and our Chinese professors weren't "foreign teachers", nor did we ask questions about China phrased as "Is it hard for foreigners to use a knife and fork?", "Do foreigners all know kung fu?" or "Is it hard for foreigners to get used to American food?"
Non certified teachers have to perform, play games and act like a clown in class in teaching an ESL classes.
