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anonymous
Q: What's best - kindergarten, public school or private school teaching?
Not just for money, but also just general conditions
15 years 6 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Kindergarten seems to have a relatively high burnout rate.
Public schools run the risk of reducing their English programs (schools are cutting foreign EFL faculty across the country) but the pay is relatively reliable.
Private schools are experiencing a mass exodus of middle-class families and run the risk of shutting down due to lack of enrollment.
icnif77:
Chinese cut the importance of English language in daily life ...
... comparable to 2010 UN stat ' ... by the year 2020, China will have 300 million English students ...'.
Now, if you think about that no. of the foreign language students ... where are you going to get so many English teachers ??
... and they certainly can't all laowai E.T.s be a native English speakers ...
icnif77:
Yeah, why not?
At my start in China, I often had Chinese English speaking teacher present at my classes.
They were learning the business ... and why not?
At that time, Chinese lessons in different grades were comprised of 'reading and repeating'.
Whole class would first listen the tape and then head-student would read whole thing aloud with the rest of the class repeating. Year 2010.
You can't apply rote-learning at studying of foreign languages 
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Kindergarten pays best but at the cost of your soul.
Public schools offer accommodation, amazing hours with lots of vacation, but medium salary.
Private school...prepare to have no life - good salary.
About sums it up
I haz a friend who works at kindergarter, private school. He love his job so much he keeps talking about it non stop. But he says it's not for everyone. He, he love teaching children - singing, making funny faces - so it's all good. Pay is better than elsewhere, for sure. You work hard, but it's so much funzies you can't stop doing it
Kindergarten seems to have a relatively high burnout rate.
Public schools run the risk of reducing their English programs (schools are cutting foreign EFL faculty across the country) but the pay is relatively reliable.
Private schools are experiencing a mass exodus of middle-class families and run the risk of shutting down due to lack of enrollment.
icnif77:
Chinese cut the importance of English language in daily life ...
... comparable to 2010 UN stat ' ... by the year 2020, China will have 300 million English students ...'.
Now, if you think about that no. of the foreign language students ... where are you going to get so many English teachers ??
... and they certainly can't all laowai E.T.s be a native English speakers ...
icnif77:
Yeah, why not?
At my start in China, I often had Chinese English speaking teacher present at my classes.
They were learning the business ... and why not?
At that time, Chinese lessons in different grades were comprised of 'reading and repeating'.
Whole class would first listen the tape and then head-student would read whole thing aloud with the rest of the class repeating. Year 2010.
You can't apply rote-learning at studying of foreign languages .
