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[john henry]

Hi all,

I've been offered a position teaching an IB subject at the Beijing Huijia High School. I haven't been able to find much info on them online. Does anyone have any experiences with them?

Also, besides this site is there a good CHina forum similar to adarn.com for Thailand, Gaijinpot.com for Japan or tealit.com for taiwan?

Thanks.

[kungfucowboy83]

did you ask them to give you the e-mail address of a current teacher?

[john henry]

Yes, thank you, I did.

[Mikeylikesit114]

Last year they offered me an economics teaching post. I refused, as their pay was too low for my standards. To be honest, I wasn't very interested in the job anyway. I was only using the offer as negotiation leverage for my two top choices.

[GoPies]

Huijia has probably more foreign teachers than any school in China - 40+ if you count kindergarten to university.
I was on the Great Wall last weekend with 3 IB teachers. PM me with your subject area and I'll try to get one of the teachers to reply.
They actually pay long-term, competent teachers very well. Short-term teachers are on probation I guess.

[serbie]

I tutored two students who went to Huijia during 2007-2008 and they told me that the foreign teacher turnover was quite high at the place.

The wages that they advertise for teachers really are quite low, especially compared to the fee's which they charge the students to attend.

You can do very well for yourself just doing private tutoring in Beijing through places that are set up to provide one on one classes to students.

Salaries for teachers don't seem to be increasing along with the higher fee's schools charge students to attend, but if you can negotiate well you can surely find a better salary elsewhere.

[tashidelek]

this school interviewed me in 1998 and they really wanted me to join in, but in the last minute, their manager happened to appear, it made me decide not to teach there. You can easily tell that the head of the school is more of a business person than an educator. After that, i have met some teachers and students from that school, i really felt that my decision is 200% correct

[Boofalonius]

Why is the turnover so high at that school?
I always see advertisements for the school and, from what I have seen on this board, a lot of teachers post questions about the school but there are never any posts about a teacher actually accepting the position and what it is like.

[haopengyou]

I know that for a number of years a Christian organization was offering to help staff that school. They would provide 25+ teachers per year, usually accepting lower pay than they would have received if they had gone some other place.

[suanlatudousi]

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