Xilinhot Aston was great!

I came to Xilinhot (also called Xi lin Hao te) as a completely new teacher, with no teaching experience whatsoever. I was pretty nervous as a teacher and the school was just opening in the city when I arrived so they needed me to give a good impression to parents there.

This was the toughest part for me, but one of the owners of the school (one of a group of westerners who own most of the Aston Schools in Inner Mongolia) helped me a lot through the first weeks. He'd give me lots of one on one teacher training and taught "tandem teaching" classes with me whenever there was a class I was worried about. This was really helpful as a new teacher. Even after the owner left for one of his other schools he got a Chinese Teacher trainer there to keep giving me help and feedback. That has helped me become a much better teacher and I've since gone on to work another contract for Aston in a different city, then for a different company in Taiwan, and now teaching English in Spain.