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Ndchasowy
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Location: Muscat, Oman
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 1:00 pm Post subject: Kang Chiao International School, East China Campus |
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Hi there,
My partner and I have recently accepted jobs at Kang Chiao in Kunshan. I'm just on here to see if anyone has information on the school, or Kunshan in general. We're both experienced international teachers - we just can't find much information anywhere.
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tesolinthesands
Joined: 26 Nov 2016
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:45 pm Post subject: I have an interview with them later today... |
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| If you're teaching at Kang Chiao now, and have an update you might want to share, it would be great to hear about your experience there. Thanks! |
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rocket man
Joined: 19 Dec 2015
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Location: Raleigh NC USA
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I had an interesting experience with them last week. They had an ad up on teach away that I responded to. Had a Skype interview with the Assistant Principal, who was impressed with me, told me she was desperate for an ESL teacher for next semester (not my certification but having taught it for 15 years at Korean univs felt comfortable with it), after that she would move me into one of the 6 social studies openings they were going to have in the fall as they expand. Told her I could meet with them in person as soon as the next day, booked a train down there from Nanjing.
Got down there turns out the school is actually at the end of line 11 of the Shanghai metro in a nice area. School itself was impressive, everything brand new etc their computers all have VPN's so you can show YouTube in the classrooms . Spent the afternoon observing 2 Middle School English teachers who then put me through the wringer of an interview, all about project based learning, common core, multi-level classrooms. Then told no it wasn't ESL or Social Studies but it would be regular middle school English/Language Arts and there was a small chance I could get moved over to the social studies position. Obviously I didn't get the job. Felt a little bait and switched.
Found out over the weekend from a teacher who came into the bar I hang out at here that a lot of the teachers there are very unhappy, the workload is immense for what they pay you and in reality it's not an "International School" as most of the kids are Chinese nationals with a few Taiwanese and Korean nationals attending. |
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jimpellow
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
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| rocket man wrote: |
| Spent the afternoon observing 2 Middle School English teachers who then put me through the wringer of an interview, all about project based learning, common core, multi-level classrooms. Then told no it wasn't ESL or Social Studies but it would be regular middle school English/Language Arts and there was a small chance I could get moved over to the social studies position. Obviously I didn't get the job. Felt a little bait and switched. |
They will be more overworked next semester if they decide to play hardball with potential teachers like yourself who most likely would have performed fine with a little training.
It would be a little funny if the poster and his partner had been the ones who interviewed you. Wouldn't be surprised. Vets from that part of the world get a big hard on over their Deltas and Masters in Linguistics, and whoa be to the teacher who is not in their club.
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| It's not an "International School" as most of the kids are Chinese nationals with a few Taiwanese and Korean nationals attending. |
That makes for one of the most "International Schools" I have heard of in the land of international schools. |
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