5 Reasons to Work at a Chinese State School
If you're considering applying for a long-term teaching placement in China, you might be wondering which kind of school to [...]
6 Reasons You Should Choose a Smaller Chinese City
If you’re thinking of teaching English in China, Beijing and Shanghai are almost guaranteed to have crossed your mind. Owing [...]
How to Deal with Bad Behaviour
Picture this: you’ve planned your best lesson yet, and you’re confident your students will go crazy for it. They love [...]
What Teaching in China is Really Like
If you’ve considered teaching English in China, you’ve probably read articles and reviews presenting it as the ideal graduate job. [...]
6 Top Tips for Motivating Chinese Students
Foreign teachers are employed in China to bring fun into the classroom and introduce a new method of teaching. Games, [...]
How to Teach Christmas in the Chinese Classroom
Any ESL teacher knows that teaching English as a foreign language is about more than just vocabulary, grammar and sentence [...]
Why Teaching in China Tops Being a Tourist
Teaching abroad and travelling are popular choices among people who have finished university, but aren’t quite ready to enter the [...]
What You Need to Know About Chinese Teaching Methods
If you know anyone who’s visited China, you’re likely to have heard a common list of bizarre cultural disparities. Things [...]
Teaching in China vs Italy: How do they compare?
By Amy Ritson, Summer Teacher in Xuzhou, 2011 Almost six years ago, I spent a summer teaching English in Xuzhou, [...]
The Struggle with Names
By Sarah Easter, long-term teacher in Wuhan (2017-2018) With only having 70 children in total within my school, I set [...]
Tattoos in China: Dispelling the Myth
There's a common myth that having visible tattoos in China and working as a foreign teacher is a big no. [...]
Teaching in China vs South Africa: How do they compare?
Many of our teachers go on to do other exciting work experience, whether it's in the UK or abroad. Natasha [...]