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[clark.w.griswald]

The Taiwan School Mentors List is a list of names of teachers who volunteer their time to answer questions about specific schools with which these teachers have personal experience. The aim of the list is to enable potential teachers to contact past or present teachers at a school to find out what the pro's and con's of working at the school really are, and to ask specific questions about working at the school that are not answered anywhere else. Some of the mentors have had positive experiences, while the experiences of others have been less than perfect. The list is meant to be the last step in securing work as a teacher in Taiwan, in as much as potential teachers have created a shortlist of possible employers, and can now check these employers out in more detail.

Although the list is only a recent addition to the site, we have received a lot of support so far, with around 95% of those invited to join the list actually putting their names down. We are now looking for more current and past teachers of schools here in Taiwan to put their names down.

If you want to have a look at the current list you can do so here.

If you would like to become a mentor then please either email us through the site or send me a PM here at Daves.

Information required is as follows:

1. A username (any name is fine, either your real name or an alias)
2. A functioning email address that we can contact you on, and that will be used by users of the buxiban site (you can either use your current account, or create one specifically for mentoring purposes)
3. The name, branch name, and location of any schools that you feel you could offer information about - you don't need to be an expert, you just need to have had experience that you think could be valuable to others.
4. Optional, but encouraged - a quick (or long) review of the school and your experiences there)

Mentors for most schools should probably expect to only get a handful of enquiries each month at the most. And mentors can have their name removed from the list at any time.

There is a lot of knowledge on this forum, and I hope that everyone will support the list so that newcomers will have more of an opportunity to find work that is suitable to their needs.

[clark.w.griswald]

As I have received a number of enquiries with the same questions I thought that I should make the situation a bit clearer.

Yes you can select the schools that you have a knowledge of and you do not have to answer enquiries about other schools, and yes you can have your name removed from the list if you find that you are too busy to continue on as a mentor.

Hope that this helps.