[SilviaT]

 

I am very sorry to hear about your issues. I am also having some troubles with the company, but at least people here where I am are very nice and supportive.

In fact, I have a question and would very much appreciate if somebody could help me with and advice/suggestion, etc…

I have been in China for almost two months, teaching English in kindergartens. I work at 5 (yes – five) locations and I have a real issue with the schedule and trying to figure out if there are other kindergarten teachers in a similar situation – because I feel like this is very wrong.

So, I have a curriculum, a teaching plan provided by the company and according to that teaching plan, I would have to teach the same classes 5 days per week. I have in total 27 classes in 5 kindergartens, and I see each class only once per week for 15 to 30 minutes (depending on the level).

I was hired by a company and I have the contract with them, so another problem is that any time I try to solve these issues, I can not get directly to the management of the kindergartens because they look at me as I am from another planet and the company keeps saying that the schedule will settle down at some point (after two months being here I can say that this will never happen).

The company provided me with the curriculum and weekly teaching plan and they provided the same materials to each of the five kindergartens.

The Chinese teachers have a weekly plan with the program that has to be taught in five days, but I am actually only one day with each class. Now, it looks that I can provide only 20% from the 100% required material and this is very difficult. I am trying to give more material in one lesson but teachers get upset that it is too much, if I do only what I am suppose to do for one day, I would have to ignore 80% of the material.

I feel like they use me only for advertising purposes, teaching being only a secondary element in this case.

I want to write a serious letter to the company, but before I do it, I would like to have some other opinions from kindergarten teachers/employers.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Silvia

 

I am very sorry to hear about your issues. I am also having some troubles with the company, but at least people here where I am are very nice and supportive.

In fact, I have a question and would very much appreciate if somebody could help me with and advice/suggestion, etc…

I have been in China for almost two months, teaching English in kindergartens. I work at 5 (yes – five) locations and I have a real issue with the schedule and trying to figure out if there are other kindergarten teachers in a similar situation – because I feel like this is very wrong.

So, I have a curriculum, a teaching plan provided by the company and according to that teaching plan, I would have to teach the same classes 5 days per week. I have in total 27 classes in 5 kindergartens, and I see each class only once per week for 15 to 30 minutes (depending on the level).

I was hired by a company and I have the contract with them, so another problem is that any time I try to solve these issues, I can not get directly to the management of the kindergartens because they look at me as I am from another planet and the company keeps saying that the schedule will settle down at some point (after two months being here I can say that this will never happen).

The company provided me with the curriculum and weekly teaching plan and they provided the same materials to each of the five kindergartens.

The Chinese teachers have a weekly plan with the program that has to be taught in five days, but I am actually only one day with each class. Now, it looks that I can provide only 20% from the 100% required material and this is very difficult. I am trying to give more material in one lesson but teachers get upset that it is too much, if I do only what I am suppose to do for one day, I would have to ignore 80% of the material.

I feel like they use me only for advertising purposes, teaching being only a secondary element in this case.

I want to write a serious letter to the company, but before I do it, I would like to have some other opinions from kindergarten teachers/employers.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Silvia

[SilviaT]

Dear all,

I have a question and would very much appreciate if somebody could help me with and advice/suggestion, etc…

I have been in China for almost two months, teaching English in kindergartens. I work at 5 (yes – five) locations and I have a real issue with the schedule and trying to figure out if there are other kindergarten teachers in a similar situation – because I feel like this is very wrong.

So, I have a curriculum, a teaching plan provided by the company and according to that teaching plan, I would have to teach the same classes 5 days per week. I have in total 27 classes in 5 kindergartens, and I see each class only once per week for 15 to 30 minutes (depending on the level).

I was hired by a company and I have the contract with them, so another problem is that any time I try to solve these issues, I can not get directly to the management of the kindergartens because they look at me as I am from another planet and the company keeps saying that the schedule will settle down at some point (after two months being here I can say that this will never happen).

The company provided me with the curriculum and weekly teaching plan and they provided the same materials to each of the five kindergartens.

The Chinese teachers have a weekly plan with the program that has to be taught in five days, but I am actually only one day with each class. Now, it looks that I can provide only 20% from the 100% required material and this is very difficult. I am trying to give more material in one lesson but teachers get upset that it is too much, if I do only what I am suppose to do for one day, I would have to ignore 80% of the material.

I feel like they use me only for advertising purposes, teaching being only a secondary element in this case.

I want to write a serious letter to the company, but before I do it, I would like to have some other opinions from kindergarten teachers/employers.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Silvia

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