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cdan_hi
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 Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:50 am Post subject: What kind of schools can I teach at? |
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| It seems like the majority of schools that look for foriegn teachers are elementary and cram schools (buxiban.) Are there jobs available in high schools, or other places where I can teach older students? |
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Pop Fly
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: Re: What kind of schools can I teach at? |
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| cdan_hi wrote: |
| It seems like the majority of schools that look for foriegn teachers are elementary and cram schools (buxiban.) Are there jobs available in high schools, or other places where I can teach older students? |
Some people do work in high schools, but the money ain't so great and the number of students per class is. Alot of the adult cram schools around Buxiban Lu in Taipei cater to (mostly) young adults. Maybe that's the way you want to go??? |
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clark.w.griswald
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: Re: What kind of schools can I teach at? |
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| cdan_hi wrote: |
| Are there jobs available in high schools, or other places where I can teach older students? |
Broadly speaking there are six main opportunities for foreign teachers in Taiwan.
The first three are relatively restricted as they generally require academic qualifications or experience. These include positions at universities, government schools (both elementary and high schools), and international schools.
The remaining three include private kindergartens, after school buxibans, and adult buxibans. This is where the majority of foreign teachers are employed.
There is certainly a lot less work available for high school age and up students. Some private buxibans such as Davids cater to this area of the market, but there are fewer availabilities here and the earnings are generally lower than in the childrens area of the market.
One of the reasons is that while English is a core subject in study, it is only one of many subjects that students need to master. The majority of English classes conducted by foreign teachers are conversation style classes. While parents often want their kids to get a good start in learning English when they are younger, once these children enter senior high school tests become a more pressing issue. So although these students still study English at buxibans as they have to pass English tests, the programs that they enrol in are not generally conversation style classes but more grammar style classes and test preparation. Most of these type of classes are taught through the medium of Chinese, basically by explaining grammar and sentence patterns to students in the language that they know. Obviously, this can be done by local teachers and therefore very few foreign teachers will find themselves teaching senior high school aged students. These are the buxibans that Popfly refers to in Buxiban Street.
The older high school students who do study English at buxibans with foreign teachers are generally the ones who will be going overseas to live and study or those with a personal interest in English. Depending upon their ciurcumstances they may have a standard high school English buxiban class and a seperate English conversation class each week and at two different buxibans. |
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