Irose Hansen is an Early Years teacher who started at Yew Wah International Education Kindergarten of Rizhao this time last year. She tells us now about what her life has been like since she took on this new role, setting up the Early Childhood Education section in the school. Read on to find out about the different aspects of working… Read more »

Zeba Saudagar is one of our adventurous primary school teachers. After completing Teach First in the UK she was brave enough to take on an international post, and has been teaching in China, at Dulwich College since 2017. In this blog she explains how she found the role, and what her life has been like so far… Read more »

Beijing is a smoggy and chaotic city. You either love it or you hate it. For brave and curious souls, Beijing presents a magnificent adventure, an opportunity to experience all the good things that China has to offer. We work with many schools in Beijing, and recently helped Scott Hannan on his way to one… Read more »

After years of teaching in Australasia and Scandinavia, Adika’s international teaching experience has now brought her to China. What a contrast! A move to Asia has totally opened up her teaching experience. In this blog she tells us of her experience so far at EtonHouse International Pre-School, a bilingual school in Shanghai. My husband and I moved… Read more »

Do you remember that feeling of being a kid in a candy shop? You were overwhelmed with excitement over all the sweet treats that awaited you.The anticipation of filling your bag up with sour gummy worms and eating your Skittles all the way home was just almost too much for you to bear… Well, that… Read more »

Megan Grey has been in China for just over two weeks, at Yew Wah International Education School of Tongxiang. She tells us she is having an amazing experience so far, and has written lots of blogs about her experiences which we can’t wait to share with you. In this first blog she recounts her experience… Read more »

With schools in Asia starting to finish up their recruitment for 2017-18, we thought it might be fitting to have a chat with some of our candidates who have now been living and working there almost a year. Mike Manktelow is just finishing his first year at Yew Chung International School in Beijing. So come… Read more »

In this week’s blog, we find out some detailed inside information from Christoforos Kanakis, who has been teaching at Maple Leaf Foreign Nationals School in Dalian, China. His school is part of the Maple Leaf Educational Systems school group which has schools in 15 different cities in China. Where are you teaching and what’s your… Read more »

A major concern of many international teachers is their ability to pick up a local language and be able to get by in shops, bars and restaurants. Mandarin is arguably the most difficult language in the world for an English speaker to learn, but Helen Weir’s experience proves it can be done with a little… Read more »

Teacherhorizon finds out some inside information from Megan Banerjee who has been teaching at Yew Chung International School, Beijing since September 2016.