By Jie LaoShi
During the last ten months of this teaching career, I have had lots of annoyances. I encountered unpredictable students from different ages. An eight-year old kid who does not want to write properly, a twelve-year old who stares blankly and does not put any effort in studying, a sixteen-year old who insists to follow his own syllabus, and a 26 year old who drains a teacher’s brain. I had to deal with them one by one and add to that, I had to do them all in one day. Wow! Imagine the stress.
The most frustrating part of this teaching career though is the fact that I have been trying to find a school that would provide me with further training while I am doing my job. If you teach, you crave for more knowledge, knowledge in what to teach and how to teach it. Surfing for a school doesn’t help. They require “native” speakers. Mind you, I can hurdle that! I have native competency and could even boast to be better. My English is fluent enough to hold a candle against a “native” speaker. What gets me is the fact that some schools here in Shanghai want a “Caucasian”. A white guy! Worse, they want a guy who is holding an American, British, etc. passport. I sometimes wonder if they really are being racial.
Well, that’s life! A bit of advice for my co-dark skinned Teachers, let this frustration be a challenge for us to step further. As one of my favourite bloggers, an American hiding in an Asian skin, said, “BLING IT ON”.
During the last ten months of this teaching career, I have had lots of annoyances. I encountered unpredictable students from different ages. An eight-year old kid who does not want to write properly, a twelve-year old who stares blankly and does not put any effort in studying, a sixteen-year old who insists to follow his own syllabus, and a 26 year old who drains a teacher’s brain. I had to deal with them one by one and add to that, I had to do them all in one day. Wow! Imagine the stress.
The most frustrating part of this teaching career though is the fact that I have been trying to find a school that would provide me with further training while I am doing my job. If you teach, you crave for more knowledge, knowledge in what to teach and how to teach it. Surfing for a school doesn’t help. They require “native” speakers. Mind you, I can hurdle that! I have native competency and could even boast to be better. My English is fluent enough to hold a candle against a “native” speaker. What gets me is the fact that some schools here in Shanghai want a “Caucasian”. A white guy! Worse, they want a guy who is holding an American, British, etc. passport. I sometimes wonder if they really are being racial.
Well, that’s life! A bit of advice for my co-dark skinned Teachers, let this frustration be a challenge for us to step further. As one of my favourite bloggers, an American hiding in an Asian skin, said, “BLING IT ON”.
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