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Some great advice on earning more money as an ESL teacher. Though set in Taiwan, the advice is easily adapted to ESL teaching in any country.
Daniel, who has experience both in Taiwan and on the mainland, offers a counterpoint to Mark's earlier article about how to make money teaching EFL in Taiwan. Daniel details what it takes to run a successful tutoring business as a westerner.
The naked Chinese art teacher revisited, with pictures!!
Professor Lonnie B. Hodge writes an open letter to his students about what he hopes they will learn from being in his classes and about the conditions of education his students will face in the future.
Every wonder how many hours you work at your cushy English teaching job compared to how much you would be working in the West? What if you compared it to the amount of hours worked by a typical Chinese working class employee? This post breaks it all down to exact numbers, and the results...well,
Rick makes some interesting observations about China's young and how they're running a muck, but rather than the parents stepping in and playing the responsible role, netizens are once again triumphing the cause.
After a week spent teaching English to Tibetan kiddies and generally increasing the pungency of my body odor, I've managed to make it to a town large enough to offer Internet access and a hot shower.
Matt shares some good advice for current and prospective ESL teachers on some of the responsibilities that fall on their shoulders - unknowingly or not - and also warns of some lines not to cross.