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Mike S.
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 Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject: I'm interested in teaching adults in China. Any advice? |
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I'm interested in teaching adults in China. Any advice?
Thanks, Mike S. |
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sui jin
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| Define 'adult' please. Undergraduates? business people? over 30s ? |
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Buck Lin
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| grow up. |
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Hansen
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| OP, What are your qualifications? Please include work experience and academic credenials. |
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sheeba
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Don't expect to teach exactly what the contract suggests or expect people to keep to their word. 'You are teaching adults. Oh by the way half your schedule will be in a kindy linked to the Uni/school'. It matters little sometimes what age you are coming here to teach sometimes.
Just don't expect anything. A blackboard, students and if you are lucky furniture in your class.
And don't expect anyone to care about you. You are insignificant.
But have respect foy yourself and teach to your highest ability.Put the effort in and you will enjoy the rewards that you get. You may well get what you want.
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Totemic
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Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:45 am Post subject: Re: I'm interested in teaching adults in China. Any advice? |
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| Mike S. wrote: |
I'm interested in teaching adults in China. Any advice?
Thanks, Mike S. |
What are you looking for? AN easy living experience, or the chance to make money?
If the former, there are many options... |
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haopengyou
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| Yes...we need more details. People in China from the age of 4 to the age of 70 are now studying English. |
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Buck Lin
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| Try WEB. Their students are mostly adults and they provide you materials. You work long hours like america 40 plus a week. |
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Mike S.
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[quote="sui jin"]Define 'adult' please. Undergraduates? business people? over 30s ?[/quote]
I taught kids before and had a hard time keeping order in the classes, so
yes, I'm interested in teaching people who are University students and older.
Business people would be good too. I have a CELTA, so those are the kind of folks that I'm trained to teach anyway. |
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Buck Lin
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I teach kids and the kids have a hard time keeping me in order in the class. Teacher stop throwing things out the window! Teacher stop pulling Salinas hair! Teacher sit down! Teacher you forgot your books and pen again! Teacher why were you late. Teacher why didn't you prepare a lesson? Teacher don't sing! Teacher you have been drinking baiju. Teacher your fly is open. Teacher there are noodles all over your coat. Teacher you are drooling all over my desk. Teacher why were you twenty minutes in the washroom? Teacher smoking is not permitted in school. Teacher can I have my pen back? Teacher don't sleep on your desk it is class time!
The lists goes on and on I just can't please the little carpet crawlers. Sometimes they beat me with their rulers and make me cry for my mother. |
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eddy-cool
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| Mike S. wrote: |
| sui jin wrote: |
| Define 'adult' please. Undergraduates? business people? over 30s ? |
I taught kids before and had a hard time keeping order in the classes, so
yes, I'm interested in teaching people who are University students and older.
Business people would be good too. I have a CELTA, so those are the kind of folks that I'm trained to teach anyway. |
If you believe age is a common denominator you may be mistaken: Chinese university students often do not behave as adults. In some cases I suspect they are enjoying their last years, months and days as 'children' before they have to join the uptight strata of 'adults'.
I am now teaching college students that had another FT in their first term.
That FT has had a lasting effect on their behaviour... those students are unruly, come late or not at all, don't listen, fiddle with their cell phones and many of them told me they didn't learn anything under their former FT. My own students in the second semester remember a few pertinent lessons, though, and the differences can easily be seen and felt. That FT was an excellent...entertainer, feeling ever so proud of his various imaginary successes in making them participate in dialogues held in front of watchful teachers. The guy is full of buzzwords such as 'student-centeredness' and 'encourage them to open their mouths' but he failed to understand that his students did not actually learn much. |
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Buck Lin
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| Eddy Cool this is not America. These kids are part of the one child policy. There will be no retirement plan for them under this system. They will be working till they die. They will probably have many jobs in the future. Let them enjoy their youth. Lighten up my friend. You are teaching and art and art is to be enjoyed. |
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Mike S.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: Kids vs. Adults |
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Yeah, it was a double-edged sword teaching kids. The kids completely ignored me unless I yelled at them. I have also taught adult business people
and they were respectful and interested in what I taught. My boss when I taught kids told me that the kids complained that I was a boring teacher and my boss when I taught adults told me to keep up the good work and that the students said that I was a "dynamic" teacher (whatever that means). I taught lots of grammar, that's for sure! |
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Itsme
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That's why all teachers need a teaching assistant so that the kids stay in order. I don't know how I would have survived without (a good) one. A bad one is useless and is more trouble than help.
Your best bet is to do private lessons with adults. If you teach college I would guess that they would be a pain in the butt too.
Privates are the best because you don't have to scatter your attention 50 different places to make sure everyone is on the same wavelength.
Just get a pretty girl who want lessons and give it to her. |
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