Post by Baron von Lotsov on Feb 14, 2024 13:11:13 GMT
Here's a little personal story of what it is like to become a British teacher working in London.
* You need to borrow a ton of money and study for 3-year degree + post grad qualification in teaching.
* The kids are rowdy, undisciplined and rude.
* your working week is 80 hours.
* After paying for a single-room bedsit and all bills you are left with £100/month to spend on food and all the other stuff you need to buy to live. No money to ever socialise with friends.
* If you have a personal problem and speak to the headmaster/mistress(?) , rather than try and be understanding they make it worse and start a discipline procedure.
You may like to read the comments since there are many other British teachers who are also leaving Britian to take their teachuing skills to countries that value that kind of thing and are kind to you.
I’m a teacher from the UK. I began my teaching journey in 2004. I moved to China in 2021 to continue my teaching career as I’d had enough of teaching in the UK. I’d never go back there. I’ve recently got married to a Chinese citizen and hope to spend the rest of my teaching career in China. It’s a phenomenal place to live (Shenzhen) and I couldn’t be happier. I first taught in China (voluntary) for 6 months back in 1998. The change from then to now is jaw dropping.
I left teaching a few years ago, and was about to go abroad to teach, when I landed a job back in the media sector (I taught Media, Photography, Art and IT). I'm married to a Chinese lass and if we decide to return to China I'll probably go back to teaching. I just got fed up with the way things were changing in the UK, thing like the academy system, lack of resources and still expected to meet results that were difficult with the limited resources. In my last school I had 60 A Level Media Studies students split into 2 classes, but only had 5 video cameras and 10 computers capable of video editing. In another school, the equipment was so old most of it didn't work properly but they wouldn't update the kit as it wasn't cost effective. So I returned to working in the commercial sector in media based roles.
I live in London and used to have a friend who was a teacher. He found reaching children so stressful and sometimes with their angry parents, he quitted. He said some kids are unreachable. They have no respect for teachers and challenge everything he said.
According to a Chinese proverb 一日为师 终身为父 A day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father。。。
