Recognized as a thought leader, pioneer, and key support in English Education in Asia, expanding the global Kindergarten English brand and opening offices in five new locations in two years.
Maintain the brand’s reputation for excellence and increase educational successes by cultivating a strong team of educators, recruiting talented staff and delivering consistent and comprehensive training based on current best practices.
Shaolin Temple; training with little monks. Really an eye opener on life and how the view can be from different people... Traveling wise, when you are living in a foreign country, most people explore and see so much more. I think most teachers teaching abroad spend most weekends exploring new cities, things and so much more traveling that they did before they left their country.
The company has evolved and grown in so many ways. Each month seems like we have taken another step. China is definitely a challenge. After living in Japan for eight years, South Korea for 1, France for 2, (and being Canadian), I thought that China would be a breeze. The learning growth for the company and for myself has been amazing and it definitely takes a team. There is always more to learn, explore and we constantly get better.
We work with the teachers. I don't get into the client business side of things much but mainly handle the training teachers, cultural communication, problem solving, developing the curriculum, improving the teaching system. Returning or rather continuing teachers in the program (staying for more than one contract). I get to hear all kinds of stories. The best stories involve teachers being able to travel and have real experiences like locals inviting teachers to go paragliding, making dumplings, water-skiing, etc.
We are not a program provider (our ESL teaching program is for kindergarten children), but teachers are able to go step-by-step inside the classroom to learn how to teach young children in a fun and exciting way. I think each teacher has their own interests, but I recall being a teacher once myself, going abroad to teach, and how every weekend was an adventure.
I am involved with the part of our company that can really help foreign teachers to get through the cultural differences in the best way possible and have the experience of a life time. I think China can be a challenge and Chinese people have a hard time understanding the concerns and feelings of foreign teachers. We definitely do all that is possible to bridge that gap.
We believe in a win-win-win strategy. This means the students/parents are happy and excited to be in our program, where our kindergartens are proud of our teachers, and where the teachers are able to feel they made the best decision to go and teach in China in the M.E.F. program using the M.E.F. system.