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I am an ESL teacher with all the required qualifications and certificates preparing to teach in China. I am immeasurably thankful for your sincerity in this video. It was hugely informative and helpful. I also want to tell you that you possess an incredible personal charisma that will make you one day an amazing teacher, no matter the country. Just believe in yourself and keep working on your professional skills. Good luck with your next school. Let it be really welcoming, inclusive and feels more like a family. Chin up!
@@sanaatheminion6719 It doesn't mean wrong with all the agents. Some agents directly hire ESL teachers for the Chinese public schools, and many public schools in China need agents to help them select the ideal teachers because no one in public schools can do the recruitment jobs of ESL foreign teachers.
Thank you for this honest review! ❤️❤️❤️ I’m still considering teaching English in China after I graduate my undergraduate degree. To take a year off, before I proceed with getting a masters. But this insight based off your experienced, helped me so much! Thank you so much for kindly sharing! And I am super sorry they kind of secluded you from their community! I would feel the same way too! I hope it gets better for you in the future! Best wishes! 😊
The teaching assistant/homeroom teacher refusing to turn up was the worst part! The kids would be chaos and some of them would cry because i couldn't control the class lol. I ended up leaving the job and now the school can't find another foreign teacher
hi trin! i really appreciated this video - it was very well done! i think you articulated your feelings/opinions super clearly, and while i have no intention of ever teaching (be it in a foreign country or otherwise), i always enjoy hearing about other people's experiences abroad. i'm sorry your time teaching wasn't all positive (and it sucks how you were forced into a position where it was difficult for the kids to actually LEARN, especially without the help of an assistant!!), but i hope you have a better experience wherever you go next! and i would definitely be interested in more videos about your time in china. :)
I've been teaching in China for the past five years. I originally came through the Ameson program. I taught middle school. It can be a mixed bag. My first year was a struggle (I came to China knowing no Mandarin lol), it was very isolating. Also at one point I had 22 classes. My last school better, just 10-11 classes a week. But it was in a very small town and I could count the other foreigners there on one hand. I taught grade 2 and 5 and I cannot imagine not having an assistant for grade 2 like omg no. But I did enjoy my 2 grade kiddos. I've recently switched from public school to teaching at a private international school.
Hey, I was just wondering what you thought was different between teaching in a public school vs a private international school. Were there things you found to be better at the private school?
Basically she earned USD$1000.00 of disposable income for 40 hours of actual work per month in China. And that's in a public school . Not many "full time" adjunct professors in the US even come close to USD$1000.00 disposable income per month.
I like so much how detailed and specific you were while describing your experience as an english teacher in china. I can see that you had an interesting experience. You endured both hard and nice moments. yet I m sure you are very flexible person with a big heart. your personality reflects you teaching style that is much based on a humanistic perspective and student centred approach. I m sure those kids are lucky to have you!! keep that positive spirit and enjoy your life your experience in china as much as you can :D
I loved watching this, hearing some stories, advise, also the whole experience really opens up my eyes to how it really is being a foreign teacher, really in any place I think it's a constant stuggle to fit in well, but in the end if you like it enough it's something to motivate you, anyways thank you so much for making this video ♡
Thanks a lot for your informative insight...! I admire your patience and stamina having had to deal with the circumstances in China. It shows how passionate and excellent a teacher you are...! Best of luck with your future teaching career.
i'm kind of curious about teaching spanish (since i'm mexican) abroad for a while so this is very interesting to hear! thank you for sharing and i hope to learn more about your experience~
I ‘taught’ high school. No assistance. Me at 21, no Chinese language skills versus 50 17 year olds with varying skill levels. I’m not sure they were better than the 7 year olds.
@@peppapig7445 hi! Sorry I’m a bit late but have you had experience learning Chinese? I’m a native English speaker and I will be learning Chinese in high school starting this year. I was wondering if you could provide some tips for picking up the language with greater ease?
The most interesting feedback on teaching in China ever. I spent a gap year teaching in China and I always welcome the other teachers' opinions on the subject. Your talk is well detailed and profound and it had appealed to me a lot because I had some minor issues - the communication inside our team - i used to feel a bit lonely and kind of like outside their company. Due to the lack of discipline ( i taught toddlers) there was some tense between me and my school principal. According to hee opinion toddlers are supposed to be calm and quiet and never make any noise or act out. And yes, no teaching assistant for me. Every move was regarded as I failed to handle my class. And another thing that contributed to my general unhappiness ( so-called of course) is that I was never helped when I really was in need. Once electricity just went off just because the principal ( she was actually responsible for my accomodation) simply forgot to give me both electricity and water cards (and the key card for the gates of the territory where my house was as well ) and never remembered within two months after my arriving, just imagine. I hardly get her come and see and help me. When we tried to open a bank account she always was late or forgot to bring her iD card and there always were some minor obstacles which ruined the whole thing. I felt very helpless. Though she always asked me out at the moment inappropriate moment like me going to bed after taking shower with pyjamas on and still wet hair and she was calling and asking for night dinner or something. But when once I needed to buy a bath towel ( i didn't bring mine) she answered she didn't use(!!!!) Any towels and she didn't even know where to buy it. What a nonsense. I was very happy to leave China but still i admit that was really precious experience. Ever since i ve been watching the other teachers videos. And yours is definitely the best as I've seen tons of them. Hope I've not annoyed you with my long writing 🤣
Thank you Softrin, it was a very interesting video! We are an ESL school located in New York, owned by Chinese American educators. (I myself am not Chinese, though.) I will come back to check more videos again because I am interested in knowing the English education situation in China. Thank you for the wonderful videos!!
Cheers for the video softrin! Since I’ve graduated university I’ve been working in a standard office job the last few years and decided I need a change. Just been offered a job teaching kindergarten in Beijing! Super excited but also terrified. Not afraid of moving to a new/different place but just hope I can be a somewhat decent teacher. 😅
I met with a principal of a school from BC Canada 🍁, he came to China to oversee the curriculum and implement and learn whatever he could, well, he was robbed of his laptop 💻 and quickly found himself on a plane back home. It’s ironic because the perpetrator knew exactly what building, what office and where his desk was, none of the other assets in the building were taken. Very peculiar but very true!
interesting that you felt lonely at your school. When I was teaching in China I felt like it was social meth too many people tryna go out and do stuff all the damn time. I think the other teachers ignoring you really depends on what the teachers think about foreigners cuz I would have other teachers that I could not communicate with whatsoever always happy to see if I suddenly knew Chinese that day.
Great to see a familiar face on TH-cam! Great video and so good you're able to share your experience for other potential teachers wanting to go abroad to teach! Hope you're keeping safe! Maybe see you in Suzhou again!
Lol, about the changes. They used to infuriate me. I would go to class and find out my class had been moved to another building and no one told me. Go to class and find out that they had scheduled an exam instead and no one told me. Now I laugh about it but it used to grind my gears.
it is the same case in vietnam. some schools have TAs but TAs cant control the students too OR wont help control. yes it is possible they forgot to tell u about the schedule but also, sometimes they dont want to bother updating u. and yeah your bad experiences are common for most of foreign teachers
Such an accurate and insightful video. I do have to say my experience as an English teacher in China has been quite similar. They are far too different from us and what's worse is the fact that they don't value and appreciate us as teachers but at the same time they do wanna use us as faces to their schools to make money. Personally that has been a huge disappointment to me as I am a qualified English teacher unlike many others but it's not the quality of education that matters here. I am not coming back either once my contract expires.
I didn't know you actually teach! I can only speak Cantonese and English, but I'm hoping to study Mandarin in university. I don't know how difficult it will be to learn Mandarin since my other siblings also struggled with learning Mandarin. 😓
in the US, you'll get paid more but after rent you're literally left with 1000 dollars a month or even less lol so i'd say this is about the same situation! no housing costs is a huge burden lifted!
Thank you so much for this video! I'm still only 14 but teaching English in China has always interested me and this video was really informative. The negative things that you mentioned definitely didn't discourage me at all and almost made me more excited... Also, I have a question. Was it rare to have a foreign teacher who spoke Chinese or did most of them have a basic level?
i would say 85% of the foreign teachers i met didn’t speak any chinese when they got there! some started learning, but honestly many foreign teachers don’t bother learning chinese since a lot of them only plan on teaching in china for one or two years. even though my chinese wasn’t perfect, i ended up having to be translator for most of my friends lol. knowing at least basic chinese is obviously helpful just in making life more convenient for you inside and outside the classroom 😊
@@softrin2986 Thank you so much! That's a relief because i'm definitely interested in learning Chinese but it isn't an option at my school and I have no motivation so idk how far i'd get...
@@isoldehegarty4670 Speaking Chinese wont stop you. The most important thing is to be white if you are black, south asian, east asian or a browner skinned latino it'll be a bit more difficult finding a job.
I was thinking that you were being massively ripped off salary wise but then you mentioned how few hours you taught and I understood. Yeah, you did well though - I've met many new teachers who've done 'midnight runs' due to pressure or loneliness, but you did well considering you are new and worked with larger class sizes that are beginner-beginners and no co-teacher assisting you - you should give yourself a pat on the back for that and still having positive attitude for wanting to go back! And yeah, you're super lucky about still being able to work and get pay - most of us have had nothing since December/January...Hopefully us foreign teachers can go back soon!
fingers crossed! i’m hoping to go back abroad by the end of the year but who know what will happen before then lol this year has been too much. and tbh all the teachers under my agency were being ripped off - we were all paid the same salary regardless of how many hours we worked, so i was just insanely lucky. i was paid the same as my roommate that worked 18 hours a week 🙃
I’m a French girl in a French high school and I wanted to ask a question , in French school English lessons are not fully in English ( it will sometimes depends on the teacher tho ) , so sometimes the teachers has to speak in French and because of that I wanted to know if in China an English teacher must speak Chinese or can do classes in full English
most schools prefer that you actually only use english when teaching, since foreign teachers are more meant to teach oral English rather than grammar/writing etc. if the students are really young, and you have no assistant it’s sometimes necessary to use chinese but it’s also not something i’d recommend because then the students start expecting you to just translate everything lol which is what kind of happened to me later in the year. so full english is the best option
Wow - great video = as a fifty somehting dude I went to China to teach English at public high school. Every day 7:30 - 5 pm (20 some contact hours) but 29,-000 rmb a month - plus apartment. Kids were well disciplined - but yes - I do remember people avoiding me in staff room -) The best part of being in China for 2 years was school - worst part was smoking spitters. Lots of good memories - I taught in middle east afterwards and it was very very different.
You have such a great calming voice, it’s amazing. I think you can make audio books and meditation videos with that voice! I’m serious! I don’t think they ignore you, they are probably just shy.
In China, it is forbidden 🚫 to have more than one job! It is forbidden 🚫 to own property unless it’s in a local persons name. Foreigners are seen as drifters with no home, no money and no stability!
It's quite a little number of 7 classes per week, but as you said it's reasonable since it's a totally new school. Normally it should be 20-25 classes per week and simultaneously the wage would goes up to about 20K, even 25K RMB per month, which I know a lot of schools would pay foreign teachers as high as it. And I know a lot of them are still short of hand with foreign teachers, especially without any accent English speaking like you did. So please let me know if you still wanna come to China to teach.
I'm thinking about studying abroad to china/taiwan but i'm afraid that i will get different treatment than the locals? Bc i'm not really an open person once i'm in a new environment and it's hard for me to adapt, especially in a different country 🥺 thank you for sharing though! It's really nice to hear your experience ☺️💚
Honestly the locals don’t really care at all to foreigners/visitors or stuff like that. It’s very different. I’m from China and idek how to explain it it’s just different. But if you do decide to study abroad everything is very different. Well, this isn’t good advice at all but yea, have a good day 💜
Long ago foreigners were required to renew their Z Visa’s in Hong Kong 🇭🇰! I was left in HK for 2 weeks waiting for one school in Anhui Fuyang to send me the proper paperwork they forgot to hand me before leaving!
when i was working in china i was earning 22000 CNy a month and was always able to save at least 2000 per month. you should avoid accepting jobs that pay less than 11000 per month.
That's a low salary but I guess it's pretty good for only 7 hours a week! At my school I teach a variety of ages in Taiwan. With the majority being in middle school. I think it's really helpful that I got a feel for so many ages here. I plan on going to China in about a year. I do not want a school like that!
oh no gurl you couldve gotten paid soo much more than 7500 rmb month , you are a native speaker with a good accent. i have recently signed a contract for a lot more than that , if you just look on facebook there is a lot of places that offer double that or more for native speakers, dont let them take advantage. you are leaving your whole life behind to go teach somewhere that you dont even know , you deserve as much as you thin you deserve so always stay firm and tell them what you want cause in my opinion that matters more. cause at the end of the day , they will still go home to thier families and a familiar place. u wont be.
generally these programs don't care what you major in! english or teaching is a plus, but honestly most of the teachers i met majored in unrelated subjects. as long as you have a bachelor's degree, are a native/fluent english speaker, and are a citizen of the usa/canada/uk/australia/new zealand you can apply to most programs~
Hi! I love your videos on both this channel and on your other as well, and thank you for making this video! I'm starting to decide what career to pursue & I've been interested in the idea of teaching english abroad, so I find your commentary really informative. Just wondering if there is a preferred major I should have in college? I was thinking about majoring in linguistics
I am currently in China and I ve been teaching for about a year at some private institutes and you know what I want to work in public school , I wonder how I can get into that? can you help?
i wonder what its like to be a AP physics/math teacher in an international school in china. that guy i went out with teaches in this postition. just curious but i never asked him. im an average chinese girl and never can i ever find an easy + high paying job like this. jealous af tbh
Hello , how ya doin' ? Is it true that is harder to find a job as you get older there? And can you have a stable work there like, not changing everytime ? Thx in advance from a 24 y/o camrade teacher.
Im proud of myself, i knew you can talk chinese before you said you can lol.. The way you say certain syllables. I bet you also do ASMR videos with that smooth voice huh :D
Hiii, did your roommates also use the same program as you? Do you reccommend any other programs? I'm interested in teaching in Shanghai but want to be sure I apply to a good program that helps with visa and housing.
Can a non native teacher ESL teaching in China? If he has two years of kindergarten English teaching experience and has ESL, TEFL , IELTS certificate. & Bachelor degree from China (English taught.) Also having some basic teaching certificate.
No idea but you can always teach your native language in China, I know there are expats teaching French Spanish and Russian in China, I imagine a lot of Chinese folks would also be interested in other languages too.
I want to live in China and east Asia for a few years after I graduate (next month). I am half-Chinese so don't know if they would take me, my Chinese is also pretty horrendous, conversational I guess. I spent 7 years in Guangzhou as a child and would like to live there again. I am graduating with a chemistry degree and my parents really advice against spending my first few years out of college basically getting no work experience. Can you shed some light on this? Is it worth it? Obviously after covid and things with China settle down.
I do have to say, sometimes I wish I’d gotten a job fresh out of school and maybe tried to transfer to a non-teaching job abroad a little bit down the line. I’m no longer in china, I’m teaching in Korea now, but I’d say if you’re really interested in going to teach now, do it! I don’t regret my decision to teach in China at all. And I also happen to be half Chinese, never encountered any problems with it, but if you hold a chinese passport it might be different for you since I’m just a US citizen
Hi there, I'm very keen on teaching English next year. Do you know of any schools/institutions that will employ teachers/tutors from the beginning of the year (Jan/Feb/Mar)?
The very first school I taught at gave me accommodations at the teacher’s dorm. My first residence was infested with rats 🐀. I had to lock my kitchen door and rely on food from outside
Behavior management in class is the key element of being a teacher. Sorry to be harsh but with your strategy you will struggle in a state school in the UK.
It's not so much that the kids didn't respect you, they saw you as someone who didn't discipline them and so they thought they were "allowed" to do what they did. Kids outside of most English speaking countries are drilled with respect growing up and I'm willing to bet if you see those same kids again in 5 or 6 years, they would be a lot better behaved and would probably walk 5 miles to get you a broom if you so asked during school hours. You mentioned that their normal teacher controlled them through fear(commanded "respect" through fear) but that's technically the case with any authoritive figure. You listen to your parents beause of the punishment to come otherwise, it's no different with teachers. You shouldn't and probably wouldn't put up with that kind of disrespectful behavor from grown men and women, there's absolutely no reason to let our children think it's ok for them to do so; if that means instilling a little fear of punishment in them to get them in line then so be it. I can respect that you want to try discipline your way but at the end of the day, you have to remember that these kids probably don't fully grasp the concept of right and wrong let alone respect yet. I guess what I'm trying to say is instill a little fear in them of punishment(doesn't matter what sort of punishment their imagination comes up with XD), not a fear of you perse? I want to apologize in advance if anything I said was out of line or offensive.
I relate to everything you saying. I'm still in china, i survived the Covid-19 wave and it turns out that epidemic was a blessings in disguise.....now we are getting almost double what we were before
For natives its around 20k more or less depends on some factors, even sometime 30k. For non native atleast 10k or more. Its difficult for non natives now. If anyone is still looking for job there contact me: malik.anser@yahoo.com Wechat ID: ansermalik 1122
OMG...That's a really low salary. Did you consider international schools? When I was in Beijing in 2018-2020, my salary was 27,000 RMB before taxes, free apartment and meals, flight reimbursement, only work 183 days a year, and yearly performance bonus. Next time, check the international schools.
I didn’t know she was a teacher holy crap I didn’t know she was old enough I need to learn more.
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If this video was an hour long I'd still watch it
I am an ESL teacher with all the required qualifications and certificates preparing to teach in China. I am immeasurably thankful for your sincerity in this video. It was hugely informative and helpful. I also want to tell you that you possess an incredible personal charisma that will make you one day an amazing teacher, no matter the country. Just believe in yourself and keep working on your professional skills. Good luck with your next school. Let it be really welcoming, inclusive and feels more like a family. Chin up!
Hi i was trying too.can u pls tell me how to get a job there without any agents
@@sanaatheminion6719 It doesn't mean wrong with all the agents. Some agents directly hire ESL teachers for the Chinese public schools, and many public schools in China need agents to help them select the ideal teachers because no one in public schools can do the recruitment jobs of ESL foreign teachers.
I am so early so I am going to say: I love you so much and I wish you the best in your future💚💚
Thank you for this honest review! ❤️❤️❤️
I’m still considering teaching English in China after I graduate my undergraduate degree. To take a year off, before I proceed with getting a masters. But this insight based off your experienced, helped me so much! Thank you so much for kindly sharing! And I am super sorry they kind of secluded you from their community! I would feel the same way too! I hope it gets better for you in the future! Best wishes! 😊
The teaching assistant/homeroom teacher refusing to turn up was the worst part! The kids would be chaos and some of them would cry because i couldn't control the class lol. I ended up leaving the job and now the school can't find another foreign teacher
hi trin! i really appreciated this video - it was very well done! i think you articulated your feelings/opinions super clearly, and while i have no intention of ever teaching (be it in a foreign country or otherwise), i always enjoy hearing about other people's experiences abroad. i'm sorry your time teaching wasn't all positive (and it sucks how you were forced into a position where it was difficult for the kids to actually LEARN, especially without the help of an assistant!!), but i hope you have a better experience wherever you go next! and i would definitely be interested in more videos about your time in china. :)
I've been teaching in China for the past five years. I originally came through the Ameson program. I taught middle school. It can be a mixed bag. My first year was a struggle (I came to China knowing no Mandarin lol), it was very isolating. Also at one point I had 22 classes. My last school better, just 10-11 classes a week. But it was in a very small town and I could count the other foreigners there on one hand. I taught grade 2 and 5 and I cannot imagine not having an assistant for grade 2 like omg no. But I did enjoy my 2 grade kiddos. I've recently switched from public school to teaching at a private international school.
Hi, please hook me up with your recruiter, i would also like to teach in an international school
Hey, I was just wondering what you thought was different between teaching in a public school vs a private international school. Were there things you found to be better at the private school?
Can you help me ??? I wants to know about the procedure to teach in china.am English graduate nd am indian.
Im getting my associates of arts AA im gonna need a bachelors arent i ? Im gonna get my liscsense to teach english im going to school rn for english
I am motivated to learn chinese so bad but its so hard 😭😭
I'm so sorry you've had this experience. I hope you get a school that is kinder and more fun!!
Basically she earned USD$1000.00 of disposable income for 40 hours of actual work per month in China. And that's in a public school . Not many "full time" adjunct professors in the US even come close to USD$1000.00 disposable income per month.
I like so much how detailed and specific you were while describing your experience as an english teacher in china. I can see that you had an interesting experience. You endured both hard and nice moments. yet I m sure you are very flexible person with a big heart. your personality reflects you teaching style that is much based on a humanistic perspective and student centred approach. I m sure those kids are lucky to have you!! keep that positive spirit and enjoy your life your experience in china as much as you can :D
I loved watching this, hearing some stories, advise, also the whole experience really opens up my eyes to how it really is being a foreign teacher, really in any place I think it's a constant stuggle to fit in well, but in the end if you like it enough it's something to motivate you, anyways thank you so much for making this video ♡
Thanks a lot for your informative insight...!
I admire your patience and stamina having had to deal with the circumstances in China.
It shows how passionate and excellent a teacher you are...!
Best of luck with your future teaching career.
I love your Calm energy is so contagious😊
i'm kind of curious about teaching spanish (since i'm mexican) abroad for a while so this is very interesting to hear! thank you for sharing and i hope to learn more about your experience~
I ‘taught’ high school. No assistance. Me at 21, no Chinese language skills versus 50 17 year olds with varying skill levels. I’m not sure they were better than the 7 year olds.
This was such an interesting video... I have a question tho... Where would you like to teach next?
i'm currently looking into taiwan or korea, but i haven't fully decided yet! just trying to get my documents in order for now 😊
@@softrin2986 it's really inspiring to see you following your dreams! I hope you will share them with us 💚💚
@@softrin2986 Why do almost all foreigners choose to teach in China? I really find it very interesting!
Wow mandarin is really hard to learn😶
hyunjin’s americano It’s really not that hard if you go to a Chinese school or something 🤗
@@peppapig7445 hi! Sorry I’m a bit late but have you had experience learning Chinese? I’m a native English speaker and I will be learning Chinese in high school starting this year. I was wondering if you could provide some tips for picking up the language with greater ease?
The most interesting feedback on teaching in China ever.
I spent a gap year teaching in China and I always welcome the other teachers' opinions on the subject.
Your talk is well detailed and profound and it had appealed to me a lot because I had some minor issues - the communication inside our team - i used to feel a bit lonely and kind of like outside their company. Due to the lack of discipline ( i taught toddlers) there was some tense between me and my school principal. According to hee opinion toddlers are supposed to be calm and quiet and never make any noise or act out. And yes, no teaching assistant for me. Every move was regarded as I failed to handle my class.
And another thing that contributed to my general unhappiness ( so-called of course) is that I was never helped when I really was in need. Once electricity just went off just because the principal ( she was actually responsible for my accomodation) simply forgot to give me both electricity and water cards (and the key card for the gates of the territory where my house was as well ) and never remembered within two months after my arriving, just imagine. I hardly get her come and see and help me.
When we tried to open a bank account she always was late or forgot to bring her iD card and there always were some minor obstacles which ruined the whole thing. I felt very helpless.
Though she always asked me out at the moment inappropriate moment like me going to bed after taking shower with pyjamas on and still wet hair and she was calling and asking for night dinner or something. But when once I needed to buy a bath towel ( i didn't bring mine) she answered she didn't use(!!!!) Any towels and she didn't even know where to buy it. What a nonsense.
I was very happy to leave China but still i admit that was really precious experience. Ever since i ve been watching the other teachers videos. And yours is definitely the best as I've seen tons of them.
Hope I've not annoyed you with my long writing 🤣
Welcome to life in china. Your experiences are quite relatable whether you are a teacher or student in China.
Thank you Softrin, it was a very interesting video! We are an ESL school located in New York, owned by Chinese American educators. (I myself am not Chinese, though.) I will come back to check more videos again because I am interested in knowing the English education situation in China. Thank you for the wonderful videos!!
Cheers for the video softrin! Since I’ve graduated university I’ve been working in a standard office job the last few years and decided I need a change. Just been offered a job teaching kindergarten in Beijing! Super excited but also terrified. Not afraid of moving to a new/different place but just hope I can be a somewhat decent teacher. 😅
I met with a principal of a school from BC Canada 🍁, he came to China to oversee the curriculum and implement and learn whatever he could, well, he was robbed of his laptop 💻 and quickly found himself on a plane back home. It’s ironic because the perpetrator knew exactly what building, what office and where his desk was, none of the other assets in the building were taken. Very peculiar but very true!
I came for the information but stayed for your aura 💛
interesting that you felt lonely at your school. When I was teaching in China I felt like it was social meth too many people tryna go out and do stuff all the damn time. I think the other teachers ignoring you really depends on what the teachers think about foreigners cuz I would have other teachers that I could not communicate with whatsoever always happy to see if I suddenly knew Chinese that day.
She's very chilled and has such a gorgeous face! Maybe that's why they were staring at you.
your vids are so relaxing that I surprisingly don’t skip a second at all (me being an impatient one hahaha). also I’m a softjun subscriber 😁
Yeah, I feel the same, she has a great calming voice it’s like meditation lmao, so good, wish I can find a wife with her voice hahaha.
It’s so nice to listen to you talk😭
I would love to know more about the process, I currently want to teach abroad as a career but I don’t have much information about it^^
@@袁静怡-n4u How?
Great to see a familiar face on TH-cam! Great video and so good you're able to share your experience for other potential teachers wanting to go abroad to teach! Hope you're keeping safe! Maybe see you in Suzhou again!
yess another video about this please it was super interesting and informative ♡ ♡
Lol, about the changes. They used to infuriate me. I would go to class and find out my class had been moved to another building and no one told me. Go to class and find out that they had scheduled an exam instead and no one told me. Now I laugh about it but it used to grind my gears.
it is the same case in vietnam. some schools have TAs but TAs cant control the students too OR wont help control.
yes it is possible they forgot to tell u about the schedule but also, sometimes they dont want to bother updating u.
and yeah your bad experiences are common for most of foreign teachers
Such an accurate and insightful video. I do have to say my experience as an English teacher in China has been quite similar. They are far too different from us and what's worse is the fact that they don't value and appreciate us as teachers but at the same time they do wanna use us as faces to their schools to make money. Personally that has been a huge disappointment to me as I am a qualified English teacher unlike many others but it's not the quality of education that matters here. I am not coming back either once my contract expires.
I didn't know you actually teach! I can only speak Cantonese and English, but I'm hoping to study Mandarin in university. I don't know how difficult it will be to learn Mandarin since my other siblings also struggled with learning Mandarin. 😓
in the US, you'll get paid more but after rent you're literally left with 1000 dollars a month or even less lol so i'd say this is about the same situation! no housing costs is a huge burden lifted!
Thank you so much for this video! I'm still only 14 but teaching English in China has always interested me and this video was really informative. The negative things that you mentioned definitely didn't discourage me at all and almost made me more excited...
Also, I have a question. Was it rare to have a foreign teacher who spoke Chinese or did most of them have a basic level?
i would say 85% of the foreign teachers i met didn’t speak any chinese when they got there! some started learning, but honestly many foreign teachers don’t bother learning chinese since a lot of them only plan on teaching in china for one or two years. even though my chinese wasn’t perfect, i ended up having to be translator for most of my friends lol. knowing at least basic chinese is obviously helpful just in making life more convenient for you inside and outside the classroom 😊
@@softrin2986 Thank you so much! That's a relief because i'm definitely interested in learning Chinese but it isn't an option at my school and I have no motivation so idk how far i'd get...
@@isoldehegarty4670 wow so young, yet sound quite mature, welcome to China is the future!
@@isoldehegarty4670 Speaking Chinese wont stop you. The most important thing is to be white if you are black, south asian, east asian or a browner skinned latino it'll be a bit more difficult finding a job.
I was thinking that you were being massively ripped off salary wise but then you mentioned how few hours you taught and I understood. Yeah, you did well though - I've met many new teachers who've done 'midnight runs' due to pressure or loneliness, but you did well considering you are new and worked with larger class sizes that are beginner-beginners and no co-teacher assisting you - you should give yourself a pat on the back for that and still having positive attitude for wanting to go back! And yeah, you're super lucky about still being able to work and get pay - most of us have had nothing since December/January...Hopefully us foreign teachers can go back soon!
fingers crossed! i’m hoping to go back abroad by the end of the year but who know what will happen before then lol this year has been too much.
and tbh all the teachers under my agency were being ripped off - we were all paid the same salary regardless of how many hours we worked, so i was just insanely lucky. i was paid the same as my roommate that worked 18 hours a week 🙃
@@softrin2986 WTH yh they were ripping y'all off
I’m a French girl in a French high school and I wanted to ask a question , in French school English lessons are not fully in English ( it will sometimes depends on the teacher tho ) , so sometimes the teachers has to speak in French and because of that I wanted to know if in China an English teacher must speak Chinese or can do classes in full English
most schools prefer that you actually only use english when teaching, since foreign teachers are more meant to teach oral English rather than grammar/writing etc. if the students are really young, and you have no assistant it’s sometimes necessary to use chinese but it’s also not something i’d recommend because then the students start expecting you to just translate everything lol which is what kind of happened to me later in the year. so full english is the best option
Thank you for this. I've got an interview this week with EF and found it very helpful. Ps, you are stunning :)
Wow - great video = as a fifty somehting dude I went to China to teach English at public high school. Every day 7:30 - 5 pm (20 some contact hours) but 29,-000 rmb a month - plus apartment. Kids were well disciplined - but yes - I do remember people avoiding me in staff room -) The best part of being in China for 2 years was school - worst part was smoking spitters. Lots of good memories - I taught in middle east afterwards and it was very very different.
Do you still teach somewhere now?
That is amazing that you still have your salary for posting videos. They obviously loved you as a teacher. I thank my lucky stars I taught adults.
You have such a great calming voice, it’s amazing. I think you can make audio books and meditation videos with that voice! I’m serious! I don’t think they ignore you, they are probably just shy.
In China, it is forbidden 🚫 to have more than one job! It is forbidden 🚫 to own property unless it’s in a local persons name.
Foreigners are seen as drifters with no home, no money and no stability!
It's quite a little number of 7 classes per week, but as you said it's reasonable since it's a totally new school. Normally it should be 20-25 classes per week and simultaneously the wage would goes up to about 20K, even 25K RMB per month, which I know a lot of schools would pay foreign teachers as high as it. And I know a lot of them are still short of hand with foreign teachers, especially without any accent English speaking like you did. So please let me know if you still wanna come to China to teach.
Are you an agent?
I'm thinking about studying abroad to china/taiwan but i'm afraid that i will get different treatment than the locals? Bc i'm not really an open person once i'm in a new environment and it's hard for me to adapt, especially in a different country 🥺 thank you for sharing though! It's really nice to hear your experience ☺️💚
Honestly the locals don’t really care at all to foreigners/visitors or stuff like that. It’s very different. I’m from China and idek how to explain it it’s just different. But if you do decide to study abroad everything is very different. Well, this isn’t good advice at all but yea, have a good day 💜
My friend teaches me finance and I think it’s so interesting and it’s cool you teach people 😎
Long ago foreigners were required to renew their Z Visa’s in Hong Kong 🇭🇰! I was left in HK for 2 weeks waiting for one school in Anhui Fuyang to send me the proper paperwork they forgot to hand me before leaving!
when i was working in china i was earning 22000 CNy a month and was always able to save at least 2000 per month. you should avoid accepting jobs that pay less than 11000 per month.
I'm english educated and has a bachelor degree but not from a native english speaking country. How can I apply for CEAIE ?
That's a low salary but I guess it's pretty good for only 7 hours a week! At my school I teach a variety of ages in Taiwan. With the majority being in middle school. I think it's really helpful that I got a feel for so many ages here. I plan on going to China in about a year. I do not want a school like that!
oh no gurl you couldve gotten paid soo much more than 7500 rmb month , you are a native speaker with a good accent. i have recently signed a contract for a lot more than that , if you just look on facebook there is a lot of places that offer double that or more for native speakers, dont let them take advantage. you are leaving your whole life behind to go teach somewhere that you dont even know , you deserve as much as you thin you deserve so always stay firm and tell them what you want cause in my opinion that matters more. cause at the end of the day , they will still go home to thier families and a familiar place. u wont be.
Can I ask what course you have to major in even apply for programs like this?
generally these programs don't care what you major in! english or teaching is a plus, but honestly most of the teachers i met majored in unrelated subjects. as long as you have a bachelor's degree, are a native/fluent english speaker, and are a citizen of the usa/canada/uk/australia/new zealand you can apply to most programs~
@@softrin2986 what if you get a non honours degree. I didn't past the dissertation module so I got a degree without honours bachelor degree
all the jobs im applying to i see start at about 18,000 rmb I'm confused on whether the wage's went up or its a hoax
I would have trouble making friends there but imagine knowing chinese but still not being able to make friends
A language school in China offered one of my colleagues 30k RMB per month. What do you think about this offer? Isn't it insane?
Hi! I love your videos on both this channel and on your other as well, and thank you for making this video! I'm starting to decide what career to pursue & I've been interested in the idea of teaching english abroad, so I find your commentary really informative.
Just wondering if there is a preferred major I should have in college? I was thinking about majoring in linguistics
I am currently in China and I ve been teaching for about a year at some private institutes and you know what I want to work in public school , I wonder how I can get into that? can you help?
This was such a fun experience to listen to.
i wonder what its like to be a AP physics/math teacher in an international school in china. that guy i went out with teaches in this postition. just curious but i never asked him. im an average chinese girl and never can i ever find an easy + high paying job like this. jealous af tbh
I'm a qualified/certified SpEd teacher and would love to be a co-teacher which I have done for 13 years.. is there co teach positions?
Isn’t TH-cam , google , Instagram banned in China ?
Really interesting , would have love to have daily vlogs of your life as a teacher in China
hopefully, i will come this March 2021, an agent helped me out to get the Pu letter even though i don't have a degree only Tefl certificate
Hello , how ya doin' ? Is it true that is harder to find a job as you get older there? And can you have a stable work there like, not changing everytime ? Thx in advance from a 24 y/o camrade teacher.
Im proud of myself, i knew you can talk chinese before you said you can lol.. The way you say certain syllables. I bet you also do ASMR videos with that smooth voice huh :D
Hiii, did your roommates also use the same program as you? Do you reccommend any other programs? I'm interested in teaching in Shanghai but want to be sure I apply to a good program that helps with visa and housing.
Can a non native teacher ESL teaching in China? If he has two years of kindergarten English teaching experience and has ESL, TEFL , IELTS certificate. & Bachelor degree from China (English taught.)
Also having some basic teaching certificate.
No idea but you can always teach your native language in China, I know there are expats teaching French Spanish and Russian in China, I imagine a lot of Chinese folks would also be interested in other languages too.
What would be the requirements needed to be able to teach in China? Like, is some type of Language degree required?
I want to live in China and east Asia for a few years after I graduate (next month). I am half-Chinese so don't know if they would take me, my Chinese is also pretty horrendous, conversational I guess. I spent 7 years in Guangzhou as a child and would like to live there again. I am graduating with a chemistry degree and my parents really advice against spending my first few years out of college basically getting no work experience. Can you shed some light on this? Is it worth it? Obviously after covid and things with China settle down.
I do have to say, sometimes I wish I’d gotten a job fresh out of school and maybe tried to transfer to a non-teaching job abroad a little bit down the line. I’m no longer in china, I’m teaching in Korea now, but I’d say if you’re really interested in going to teach now, do it! I don’t regret my decision to teach in China at all. And I also happen to be half Chinese, never encountered any problems with it, but if you hold a chinese passport it might be different for you since I’m just a US citizen
Hi there, I'm very keen on teaching English next year. Do you know of any schools/institutions that will employ teachers/tutors from the beginning of the year (Jan/Feb/Mar)?
Is TESOL certification required when u going to the Chinese public school for teaching English?
Not needed as far as I know but I suggest you get it.
Could you tell me what qualifications do you need? And what’s the minimum age? I really liked the video, hoping to teach in China soon!
Do u know any teacher who moved with his family ( husband and children ) to China? Or Single parents with child?
Yeah there are some teachers here with family and also single parenst.
very nice, thanks teacher!!
35 to 50 children in a class ... too much for me
... i can do 10 at a time 😅
The very first school I taught at gave me accommodations at the teacher’s dorm. My first residence was infested with rats 🐀. I had to lock my kitchen door and rely on food from outside
Did you major in Education and/or English??
Could you talk about how it felt being a mixed chinese American in China?
May i know how to be an english teacher in china or the process you go through? love your video 🥰
Can I please have the company name?
Very interesting n informative video 🥰👍 thnkq
Very pretty;relaxing voice and informative video.
Behavior management in class is the key element of being a teacher. Sorry to be harsh but with your strategy you will struggle in a state school in the UK.
It's not so much that the kids didn't respect you, they saw you as someone who didn't discipline them and so they thought they were "allowed" to do what they did. Kids outside of most English speaking countries are drilled with respect growing up and I'm willing to bet if you see those same kids again in 5 or 6 years, they would be a lot better behaved and would probably walk 5 miles to get you a broom if you so asked during school hours. You mentioned that their normal teacher controlled them through fear(commanded "respect" through fear) but that's technically the case with any authoritive figure. You listen to your parents beause of the punishment to come otherwise, it's no different with teachers.
You shouldn't and probably wouldn't put up with that kind of disrespectful behavor from grown men and women, there's absolutely no reason to let our children think it's ok for them to do so; if that means instilling a little fear of punishment in them to get them in line then so be it. I can respect that you want to try discipline your way but at the end of the day, you have to remember that these kids probably don't fully grasp the concept of right and wrong let alone respect yet.
I guess what I'm trying to say is instill a little fear in them of punishment(doesn't matter what sort of punishment their imagination comes up with XD), not a fear of you perse? I want to apologize in advance if anything I said was out of line or offensive.
I relate to everything you saying.
I'm still in china, i survived the Covid-19 wave and it turns out that epidemic was a blessings in disguise.....now we are getting almost double what we were before
Can I get ur Skype id
I can say the same
sweet voice！🤩
You're getting robbed at 7500 per month, I was getting paid 25000 for 16 hours per week. I can hook you up with my old company if you like
who was that with Charlie?
Charlie please share contacts i am also looking to teach in china
For natives its around 20k more or less depends on some factors, even sometime 30k. For non native atleast 10k or more. Its difficult for non natives now.
If anyone is still looking for job there contact me: malik.anser@yahoo.com
Wechat ID: ansermalik 1122
Yes Charlie please share your information! Would really appreciate it
OMG...That's a really low salary. Did you consider international schools? When I was in Beijing in 2018-2020, my salary was 27,000 RMB before taxes, free apartment and meals, flight reimbursement, only work 183 days a year, and yearly performance bonus. Next time, check the international schools.
Good old AC music
I fel so sorry for u...
you should be an actress
Are you in Shanghai? I would like to offer you a part time job.
Can I get ur Skype id
Green bacteria started growing on the walls and even in my luggage bags
You look so young . I didn't know your age so I thought your a student.
Who else recognized the Animal Crossing New Horizons music in the background?
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Sweet could you teach me Chinese
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