@pg
thanks for the heads up...although it certainly won't be the greatest school we have taught in, I'm sure we will have a wonderful experience. I'm not at all sorry we'll be there.
@swissmiss
Thanks for the words of encouragement. We'll have great stories to tell one way or another :D

Thanks, swissmiss,
We will both be teaching in the pyp program. I got the impression that technology was not on par with international schools in china. I guess, since we are on a one year contact, we will make the best of it for this year and see what happens. I appreciate your feedback.

I've only been able to find some pretty benign feedback on this school in Guangdong, China. Does anyone have any kind of feedback they can give us? Since we haven't found any kind of scathing reviews out there, I guess we are assuming things are ok, but we welcome any kind of concrete info anyone might be hanging on to. Many thanks

PsyGuy,
Thanks for your reply...my wife and i will both be teaching at the school. I figured it was a little "cheap," but wanted some more input. I guesss I will work on a countere to their offer.
fyi, the one-year contract is our choice...we are receiving sabbaticals from our schools in the U.S.

We are weighing two, one-year contracts right now. One of the schools is asking us to pay over $1000 per month in tuition for our 3 children. That is 20% of our net monthly salary. Is this standard? The school is in China, and in the explanationn they provided, they said it was because of the one child rule in China and we pay progressively more for each of our children. Just checking to see if this is standard practice.
Thanks for your help

chocoloatefrog,
Thank you for your input. Not exactly a glowing review, but I appreciate your honesty. Would you care to elaborate about the statement regarding vacation. Also, how would you rate the facilities/technology?

Hello,
Having a hard time finding much info on this school. Can anyone provide details? Interviewed, but really have no idea regarding salary/benefits. Any help anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks

Thank you for your input. In lieu of airfare upfront, they are proposing a stipend at the end of our contract to pay for most of our round-trip airfare. I'm trying to negotiate that flights are included and paid for by them at the onset of our contract. We shall see. Also, any feedback anyone can give on the "negotiations dance" in China relative to how much give and take one can typically expect/hope for would be helpful as this is our first foray into international education. Again, many thanks.

Hello all,

My wife and I have recently been offered positions at a third tier bilingual school in China. The salary, relative to the cost of living is good. There are some things we don't LOVE about the contract, but all-in-all, we are satisfied with the salary. The question I have deals with my teaching assignment. I would be teaching 1/2 time and performing administrative/consultative duties for the rest of the time. For this I would be paid as if I were teaching full-time. I have an extensive background in language acquisition and they would like me to train their teachers in some of the 2nd language acquisition methodologies that I have experience with. I am excited by the idea of doing this because it is my passion, but I don't want to be taken advantage of either. I understand that things like this are negotiable, but I was just wondering if anyone has any input/experience with something like this.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide. I have been lurking for several months and have benefited greatly from many opinions here.