What are the Pro's and Cons in working as Englih Teacher in China?
603635
Well, it would help to know English is spelled ENGLISH, and the plural of pro is pros.  China has a wholly different culture than ours, and you would have to understand that to make a difference.
425840
Dont  choose china as a possible job location.\nThere salary is very low.\nWorking conditions are bad.
745281
Contact the schools that train teachers.  I would start with the International House network- contact the schools that train CELTA students.  Make sure your school is a good place to work or else your reputation will be ruined really quickly!  Everyone in the ESL world knows which schools have bad working conditions and bad salaries!
508855
Go for it!\n\nYou can always go and teach English and learn more Chinese if you stumble to get a job in something a bit more advanced.
811999
It's obviously difficult to generalize, but I can speak from personal experience. I grew up in New Hampshire and attended an excellent public school - creative, energetic teachers who encouraged a love of learning among the students. I went to college well prepared and knowledgeable about a variety of topics.\n\nI am now a teacher in Southern California and I see quite a difference. Teachers are told what to teach and how to teach it. The creativity is pretty much gone and with it, most times, the quest for knowledge and love of learning. Also, the large amount of English as a 2nd Language affects the English only learners and gives the teachers one more obstacle. Teachers are often burnt out from the many responsibilities they have.\n\nI'd go for the the smaller-town schools of the East any day.
134290
In China it is teaching, and since there are more people in China than any other country, I would say that teaching is probably the answer. However in the US teachers have lost a lot of respect in the last couple of decades. I have met US teachers that have such poor grammar their students can not understand them.
913012
Are you in China, Taiwan, or somewhere else? Because if you're in Taiwan, I'm working there as an English tutor.
29538
my friend went there for a year, (last year) he went to teach english. look for ads in your local or city newpaper. they need lots of young people to teach there and you dont need a degree, they supply the living space, and people to live with and of course they pay you. you just need to fly your but out there!..lol
82462
Below is a list of schools which DON'T employ foreigners to teach English:\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nSeriously, just go there and look around. It's just too easy if you look white. There are so many foreigners there that they can probably point you to a school anyway.  Every Chinese wants to learn English, so if you ask them they would be more than willing to tell you if you are willing to spend a little bit of time just talking to them.\n\nAll the universities want English teachers so you can go there and approach any of them.  Otherwise check out That's Beijing (schools like to advertise for jobs located elsewhere as well)
495471
Well the pro's of any country becoming a developed nation are obvious--diversification of resources, new innovations (eventually), and a shift in the balance of world power (hopefully China will remain peaceful)\n\nThe biggest con, and not just for the US, is that China is a country of 1.4ish billion people who are clueless to their own country's emergence as a significant world power.  They are force-fed the statistics and are clueless at the increasing influence of China in international affairs.  What's worse, they could collectively care less--they spend their free time playing mindless games and singing songs.  It would be RARE for the average chinese person to ever ask a question like this one.  Pure ignorance
1175168
they will take any undergrad and in some cases take anything to teach English in Asia\nbut if you want to continue with teaching you should go with education (and you will also find better jobs in Asia with an Ed. degree)
4341
pros- work at your own pace\ncons- hard to get handson experience, can't hear the lectures, ask professors in person
591940
It depends on which part of China u are studying in.The rural parts?Or what?It's good if you could get your own local food there.It's not that good if they only have China food.it depends whether u suit the weather there or not.And it depends if you will get irritated by the lecturer's slang and by their biasness.But,it's good if you are out of your own country and looking at the world outside.I'm currently studying overseas as well..And i don't like this place at all..But my friends here make me want to stay.It all depends on yourself.
805574
While I am not a teacher at present I will tell you the experience of our sons.  In a transfer that took our family from the States to France our sons struggled with the strict atmosphere and lack of help for the students in the international school we put them in (hoping it would be better suited to them. . . . .wrong).  Time was not given to do any work at school, that was to be done at home and turned in promptly,  they had no problem holding students back a year until the school believed they could pass the exams that were given every couple of years which tested on ALL aspects of learning within those years (the Bacculaureate covered all years in school and if you did not score high enough on just one portion (math, language,etc.) you were made to repeat the entire year again.\n\nAfter 1 1/2 years of this and the school wanting to put our sons back 2 years because they didn't think their French was good enough to pass the tests, we found an American school in Switzerland and they finished their high school there.  \n\nHomework is the key.  In the States it was never cool to be at home doing your homework.  However, in Europe you will not survive school without doing homework.  At their school in Switzerland there was mandatory study hall 3 hours EVERY night.  In France the teenagers had little time to do anything because they were always at home or the library doing their homework.  \n\nThe students were prepared the minute they entered the classroom to learn.  They were respectful to the teachers as well as to each other and quiet when the teacher was talking.  This provided a reason for the teachers to be respectful of them as well and willing to listen to their ideas and suggestions.\n\nThey also had field trips to learn about the country they were living in and to show their gratitude to the city where they went to school, they did continutal service projects for the city in many ways, i.e. beautification of town square, mentoring younger towns children, helping on the ski slopes when needed.  Because of this the town loved them, trusted them and at graduation would hang out windows and doorways to wave and shout congratulations to them.\n\nI can't think of a better way to learn.  Not just from books, but to learn first hand about a culture.  Oh, and by the way - out of the 250 students, there were 47 countries represented.  The school was very dilegent in making sure everyone had several countries represented in their dorms which held 4 students.  This gave them one on one contact in both learning and dealing with other cultures and customs.  Not all of them were stellar roommates, but the students did learn tolerance.  How great is that.
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369752
First of all, this belongs in "education - other" or "teaching," not "special education" (unless you specialize in working with students with disabilities?). \n\nYou have to "shop around" to find districts who may be interested in your services. It would help if you also have other certifications (e.g. sociology, history, etc.). Subscribe to or find copies of US education journals, such as "Education Week" (see link below). Many have excellent job fair and contacts listings. Most may not necessarily post a specific need for a Chinese Language Teacher, but you can submit your resume to as many as possible and see who shows interest.\n\nAlso, while you are certified in China, you will need to go through coursework and certification in the United States to teach in public schools. You may want to first focus on the private school sector, and colleges.\n\nGood luck!
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Cons \n-- too much paperwork (in addition to grading papers, daily lesson plans, and keeping grade books current... child study team paperwork, IEP student present levels paperwork, referral paperwork for discipline or counseling, academic level schoolwide data collection paperwork, requisition forms, curriculum mapping, movie permission forms, field trip request forms, cafeteria lunches for field trip request forms, parent permission slips, computer lab permission slips, textbook inventories, etc., etc.-- plus if you're in Special Education...the rest of the IEP paperwork, individualized lesson plans, additional present levels reports, progress reports ref. IEP goals, etc., etc.)\n-- low relative pay for the investment of training time (most people with similar degrees in other professions make 2x to 3x as much starting pay, and get raises fast...as a teacher you'll be getting almost the same pay for years)\n-- low relative pay for the real-time investment (contract is 182 days, 7.5 hours per day, but you take papers home for grading, plan in the evenings and over "vacations," read professional journals, attend professional development classes and conferences, etc.)\n-- problem parents (you're working their child too hard/not enough, you obviously hate their kid, your motivation is to torture their child emotionally, you don't care, the other kids are all the real problem, you don't know what you're doing, their child never does anything wrong, their child never lies to them, their child is brilliant but you don't know it, their child is mentally retarded but you don't know it--yes, I've heared this one before--parents can get money from the state if their child is severely disabled, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum)\n-- the demands of NCLB (prime example is that all kids must be reading at grade level by 2012, including slower learners, those learning English as a Second Language, and those with special needs... it's like saying that amputees must run faster than Olympic-level athletes)\n-- the occasional oddball administrative creativity moment from your school or central office especially in regards to discipline procedure, or a "new is always better" approach to curriculum and instructional program adoption (sigh)\n-- the deer-in-headlights look you'll get when there's a problem (ranting parent, kids picking on each other, etc.) and in spite of your best efforts for your students, you seem to be the one with the target painted on your butt (and everyone is wearing big boots) -- always document everything you do during the day! (I have a spiral notebook just for non-routine interaction documentation)\n-- burnt-out colleagues that you have got to collaborate with (for various reasons) who are not interested in anything but meeting their contract time and hitting retirement age (burnt-out for all the reasons above) -- this one for two reasons...one is that it makes the project at hand very difficult for you, and two, the eerie and awful feeling that if you're not careful in dealing with your stress, that could be you someday.\n\nPros -- Working with kids, making a difference in their lives, that moment of happy excitement on their face when a student "finally gets it," getting to play with cool science and other materials, having a chance to be creative across a variety of subjects and media, the "boost" of a successful intervention with a child who was experiencing difficulties, the chance to be involved with your community in a positive way, having the people who were in your class walk up to you 10 years later and offer a sincere "thank you", having parents walk up and say "thank you" and/or who are obviously positively and deeply involved in their child's upbringing, working with a group of people (staff, administrators) all of whom are enthusiastically (mostly) there for the same reason you are -- love of teach