Knowing how much to work for in China
The Problem: Knowing what a fair wage is for foreign teachers in China. ForeignTeacherPay.com was created to solve a simple, but important, problem: it is difficult for English teachers to know how much they should work for in China. There is no real minimum wage for foreign teachers, and pay varies based upon factors as diverse […]
Garfield Cat
At the [tag]Changchun[/tag] Foreign Language School my classroom was a listening lab. It was a difficult room to teach in since the kids all sat behind glass partitions and had computers to play on. Anyway, as I learned to use the (all-in-Chinese) computer software, I spent lots of time listening to conversations that I wasn’t interested in, such […]
ESL Games: Wheel Of Fortune!
Materials Needed: Deck of specially labeled playing cards Blackboard (to keep score) Instructions: (I play the game with cards because I’ve not been able to make a wheel durable enough to withstand my students; unfortunately, CARDS OF FORTUNE! is a stupid name for a game.) Teacher prepares a deck of cards, some given monetary values, […]
So Tell Me A Story
One of the activities I liked to do with my high school kids was having Q&A or Tell-Me-About-Yourself sessions. It took the kids most of the first semester to feel comfortable enough to talk in detail about their lives outside of school. Once they opened up, quite a few of their responses have been pretty […]