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[YankeeDoodleDandy]

Last week I went into my local New Beijing Oriental and there were actually hundreds of young people watching films and talking. I had a job interview and they told me that they would call me in for a second interview after I return from Urumqi. I thought that I would be teaching spoken English classes on the weekend with young adults, however the young lady who interviewed me told me that she does the hiring for teachers who work with young children and that there was anither woman in HR who interviewd people who would work with older students who wanted to go abroad. This seems like the new model to emulate for English Training Schools. It has to be a tremendous money maker. IELTS and SAT prep classes were offered as well as TOEFL and GRE courses. I don't know if foreign teachers are involved in this, but I will let you know. It hurt my feelings a little bit, when she asked me what size monkey suit I wore. HeHe. If this turns into a nice part-time job, I think that I will be able to buy a small apartment in the next year or two.

[Joe C.]

[englishgibson]

don't mean to be disrespectful or anything like that but how many "smart employers" are around in this lovely country

i can tell you that my employer's hired a young chinese in late 20s out of a private business school in toronto (i know very well), and he's this young man as a canadian with a degree. even the ones with no high school can get in and graduate there. it's a freaking diploma.

YankeeDoodleDandy, that's a school i really want to know more about too and i hope you'll let us all know more on it later. a while back i've posted a thread on new oriental and wanted to know how many fts had worked there....looks like there're very few foreign teachers in and their "secrets" go on

cheers and beers to new oriental kids classes that foreigners teach .. i guess they prepare the kids for the SAT courses with chinese later

[englishgibson]

where's joe? let me tease him in a bit...i'm a bit tired by those IELTS scores that come at 5 or 5.5 so often...to my knowledge, there's a quite a difference with respect to the students' proficiency in the language there..and, many of my students've noticed that too

now, i don't want to take a shot at the honorable examiners, but i just feel they've got little room to "manover around" there ... TOEFL seemingly provides a larger room as it looks with scores...however, too bad the room's apparently across the ocean and few get their chance to know who does it there or who sends it there..forgive me if i'm wrong..i don't eat much fish, but i hate to see my students at different levels getting similar scores...and, above all i hate them disappointed

cheers and beers to those proficiency exams that can't satisfy everyone