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chrissacat
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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: Where to Teach |
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I'm a newbie looking to teach in China. I'm looking for your feedback on recomended cities to start out teaching in.
I am TESOL certified but do NOT have a 4 year's bachelor degree - only a two year associate degree. I know many cities require 4 year degrees, and others don't.
I consider myself to be an outdoorsy person, but do appreciate the city life.
Thoughts? Recomendations?
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tw
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Where to Teach |
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| chrissacat wrote: |
I'm a newbie looking to teach in China. I'm looking for your feedback on recomended cities to start out teaching in.
I am TESOL certified but do NOT have a 4 year's bachelor degree - only a two year associate degree. I know many cities require 4 year degrees, and others don't.
I consider myself to be an outdoorsy person, but do appreciate the city life.
Thoughts? Recomendations? |
This question gets asked so much that many members just don't bother answering it anymore without first getting some information first. Tell us what kind of place you'd like to be in:
(1) Size: big, medium, small
(2) Can you handle cold winters or hot and humid summers?
(3) Do you need to see and/or meet other Westerners?
(4) Do you need bars and frequently eating Western food?
(5) Can you handle relatively simple lifestyle?
etc. etc. etc.
Essentially, nobody can tell you anything unless you tell us something first. You might also want to spend a lot of time going through the last two years of posts and read threads from other posters who have asked questions about specific cities.
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james s
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Location: Raincity
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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No city requires you to have more than a white face so get your bleach. Thatr sounds harsh and it is. You can have a grade 2 education and teach here. You need not a b.a.
Find a job online-they are mostly bad jobs there. Get to the city and get out of the house they give you every night to make friends.Then leave the company you came here with and get on with a new school/company who does not need to recruit from other worlds because their reputation is soooo bad.
Then do not feel guilty about it because the school owner would have screwed you in a week anyways.
T.I.C. |
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beautification
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SnoopBot
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Do not consider Beijing because the 2 year degree might cause you to get the lower-end jobs that nobody else wants.
Those with a 3 year degree (Typical UK degree is 3 years not 4) are starting to feel a hassle with the enforcement of the 4 year degree rule.
Also if you like countryside style Beijing is too large. |
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