Blog Tag - English Teaching

School Staff Shuffle: Acing Your Teacher’s Interview
It’s that time of year… Contracts are ending and teachers are quietly – or not so quietly – looking around to see if the grass is greener on the...
Stranded Nomad: How Foreign Teachers Can Use a Summer in China to Their Advantage
So. You packed a bag, told your parents not to worry, and set off to teach in China with dreams of returning triumphantly clutching a passport full...
Hot Take: Legal or Not, Please Don't Have Sex With Your Students
China recently announced that it will consider banning teachers from having relations with students, leading us to collectively wonder: How the hell...
After-School Classes Suspended Again, and This Time It's Not Due To COVID
Earlier this week rumors were swirling that all of the city's after-school training centers would be shutting down for an indeterminate amount of...
New Credit System for Foreign Teachers Could Be Coming
Up to now, foreigners have been exempt from China’s experimental social credit system, designed to keep citizens accountable for their actions....
First Group of International School Teachers Allowed to Return to Beijing
When China banned foreigners from entering the country due to COVID-19 in March, many teachers and staff at international schools were amongst those...
“Not a Chance I’d Teach There Again”: British Teachers Flee “Broken System” for Better Life in Beijing
A recent report in the Guardian newspaper, describing how experienced teachers are fleeing a “broken education system” in England to find a better...
Beijing to Introduce Visa-Free Status for English Teachers
The Beijing Government will introduce a pilot scheme this month eliminating the need for 10,000 foreign-nationality English teachers to secure work...
China Faces English Teacher Shortage
You couldn't tell by hanging out at Cafe de la Poste, but China is now facing an English teacher shortage. With at least 4,000 native-speaking...
English Teachers Beware: Will Beijing Reduce the Importance of Learning English in School?
The battle over English: It's long been happening in France and more recently, there has been anti-English language remarks by an Indian leader....
To Bee or Not to Bee? The Importance of Spelling When Teaching English
"Hyeometer" stumped 11-year-old Katharine Wang when she was asked to provide its spelling during the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee in...
Classified of the Week: Gerundimo!
Beijing's diversity and Internet anonymity make for strange bedfellows. Nowhere is this more true than in our website's Classified Ads section....