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Post by alexis on Feb 18, 2006 15:32:16 GMT 7
My husband and I have been teaching ESL in China for almost two years now. We want to relocate to Shanghai. We wish to find a University that we could live on campus. Curious if anyone has had any experience with this in Shanghai, if so please let me know. Thanks...
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Post by Dr. Gonzo on Feb 19, 2006 1:44:47 GMT 7
My wife and I, with our pre-schooler lived and worked at Shanghai University of Electrical Machinery for 5 semesters.
Pluses:
Good pay
Secure environment
Easy to get a babysitter and housekeeper
Better than average housing and appointments
Well out of the city centre, so relatively low pollution
Good local shopping, cheap food
Close to light rail
Minuses
Apartments just have one large bedroom
If you teach the trade oriented boys, they are dull and unmotivated. The economics type majors, mostly girls, are a delight however
Contact me if you want to know more.
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Post by alexis on Feb 19, 2006 17:37:57 GMT 7
Jeez 5 semesters, you must of really liked it. Where are you now? What did you mean by good appointments? Did you teach ESL? What did your wife think of it? We would have to have two apartments, one for our daugthers and one for us. You can email me at alexistesnar@yahoo.com Also, do you know any other Universities in Shanghai to teach?
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Post by Raoul Duke on Feb 19, 2006 17:50:22 GMT 7
Alexis,
you should probably be prepared to pay for the 2nd apartment yourself. I think it's unlikely that very many schools will provide a second apartment free of charge...
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Post by Dr. Gonzo on Feb 20, 2006 1:56:50 GMT 7
All new appliances and furniture [though they wouldn't be new anymore], decent bathroom, 3 airconditioners........
I'm back in Australia, but still teaching esl.
We both liked it, but came back so our son could start school.
Shanghai has dozens, nay hundreds of colleges and universities, though I can personally only vouch for this one.
This place runs some Australian college courses, so there's a steady stream of teachers coming for 4-8 weeks. I know accommodation is in great demand, so would second Raoul there.
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Post by alexis on Feb 20, 2006 11:15:49 GMT 7
What does your wife do in Australia? Did she like teaching ESL? Are either of you liscensed teachers?
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Post by Dr. Gonzo on Feb 20, 2006 12:04:24 GMT 7
You can't scratch your bum here without a license. I've been high school teaching since, er, sometime in the '70s. I forget exactly when. Interesting times the '70s. A pointless and noisy decade.
My wife was working as a Chinese English teacher, specialising in translation. Not many waiguoren could do that.
She liked it as something new to do and put a lot of time into preparation. As she'd already spent several years in Australia she taught in a less Chinese way, which the students enjoyed: games, groups etc. She's now qualified and working in childcare.
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Post by alexis on Feb 21, 2006 5:45:35 GMT 7
Any advice on how to know which Universities to apply at in Shanghai? I am very confused because I do not know even where to start. Also we have our three children with us so I obviously want to be careful. The last two schools we have been at in Ningbo were good to us so I am hoping I can find the same in Shanghai or close to Shanghai.
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Post by Dr. Gonzo on Feb 21, 2006 12:35:50 GMT 7
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Post by masuk39 on Apr 16, 2006 6:44:17 GMT 7
Dr Gonzo sure is correct about not being able to scratch yer bum without a licence here in Oz. I returned here after six years of teaching in Asia, to find that at least one paranoid state government had introduced a thing called a 'blue card'. To be able to teach, drive a school bus, control the school zebra crossings, teach English to migrants, push an older person in a wheel-chair, you must be thoroughly checked by the state, federal and any other police or authorities. Does anyone else do this? ;D  |
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Post by Hamish on Apr 16, 2006 7:20:35 GMT 7
IMHO, these licenses are not so much designed to protect kids and whatever, though that is what folks will say is the justification. The rules are to protect the people who have jobs doing whatever the paperwork is for. In the US, teaching certificates require a candidate to wade through a river of crap, drink it, and say, “That’s GOOD!” to obtain the junk mail. I think one can teach, or one cannot (And, in my experience, most people who teach Education classes cannot.). Nobody can teach a person to teach unless the student is already a teacher somewhere in his or her heart.
I think teaching Chinese kids English in a third tier school, which is where Sallie and I are enthroned, is the greatest game of bob and weave that I have ever seen. I love it but I can’t teach anyone to do it.
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Post by Newbs on Apr 16, 2006 9:03:30 GMT 7
Welcome masuk 39.
What Hamish said. I'd tell you what I really think of these people who are making crap for teachers, the world over, but if I did the filters would blow a bloody fuse.
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