[quote="stockingblue"]Also, what is the Moral Education department?[/quote]
Find their website which'll mostly be in Chinese. Copy a text string and paste between " quote marks in Google Search. Then click on 'Translate'.

[quote="djc51"]...[b]do not choose Yew Chung[/b]. [/quote]

I actually subscribed specifically to read their reviews since I wanted to work in Qingdao. They sponsor the printing of Queen's University's (Kingston, Canada) B.Ed's [i]Job Search Guide for Teachers[/i] so I thought they were reputable until I checked. It was $30 well spent!!!

At Queen's U last month, I met recruiters from Atlantic Ed. Int'l. Given their origin as part of the N.B. Dept of Ed. in '97, they seem reputable. I'd highly recommend looking into the Canadian Int'l School of Beijing which is a Sino-Cdn joint venture. They've got 50 Cdn. teachers in that school alone and I know they place for an In'tl school in HK. I didn't find that school's review on this site but perhaps that's a good sign because the int'l school in China I was interested in (Yucheng) had 30 reviews, almost all negative. Good thing I subscribed!!!
[url]http://www.aei-inc.ca[/url]

---------------------------------
As an aside, you may be interested in this:

Having taught ESL in China 8 yrs, I've become intrigued by the differences between their ed system and ours. Perhaps as part of China's recently implemented ambitious 12 yr educational reform, the University of Bristol's Grad. School of Ed recently completed a 2 yr study to 'investigate the nature and extent of school effectiveness in China'.
[url]http://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/rese ... tes/ieeqc/[/url]

Lately, I've been reading how Confucian philosophy, essentially a moral code of conduct, [i]evolved from[/i], and then back into religious ritual---quite the opposite of Buddhism, Taoism and even western monotheistic faiths that evolved from philosophies into religions. You'll recall Moses' iconoclastic episode and the highly politicized early Christian history.

In being forced to drop out of a B.Ed program due to a critical prac evaluation and a safety concern, I’m left questioning whether it’s just me or the classrooms I was in that makes regular teaching so demanding here. How different are int’l. schools generally?

After years of successfully teaching kids English in China, I returned to Canada to do a 1 yr. prim/jun B.Ed but just couldn't adapt so quickly to a western classroom. I had anarchy on my hands in kindergarten gym and was harshly criticized by a prof in a gr. 4 for defaulting to the same excessive ‘chalk and talk’ that the teacher relied on. I felt I'd need to surpass even the teachers’ performance to find teaching more rewarding than stress-inducing.

Had I known just how inclusive (diverse) N.A. classrooms had become, perhaps I would’ve reconsidered. Maybe it’s an age-related thing—both prac teachers, like me, are in their late 40s and we’ve all had previous careers. The kindergarten teacher took a planned 6 mo. leave of absence following my practicum admitting teaching hadn't become easier with experience.

I’d received recognition from students, parents, colleagues and superiors in China for my dedication to teaching. Pedagogical interests largely drew me to pursue a B.Ed but I didn’t expect needing more parenting than pedagogical skills in the classroom.

As I consider returning to China I need some advice:
a) Is it worth completing my degree (to teach in int’l schools)?
b) If so, what options do I have in completing my B.Ed degree?