Kid Castle
August 2011 - January 2013
My first formal teaching position came in the form of 140 Chinese children ranging in age from three to twelve years old. This was equally the most challenging and rewarding experience I have had to date. I taught eleven classes a week, Monday through Saturday with the average class size being fifteen students. My students' skill levels ranged from beginner to intermediate and I created lesson plans daily from scratch and scrambled for materials outside of the mandated workbooks. It was through this position that I learned what it meant to be a teacher, and how much more training and experience I needed to be a successful one. I wrote about my experience teaching and had it published through a travel site called Travel Freak.
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Kid Castle is a privately owned company established in 1986 by William Wang and has grown from 1 school to 200 throughout Taiwan and China. Kid Castle values interactive teaching primarily to promote students' speaking and listening abilities. However, there is also focus on reading, writing, and grammar skills through workbooks, assessment opportunities, and course books.
Kid Castle is an after school program so the classes are primarily taught at night and on the weekend. Students range in age from 3 - 12 years old and the program is chosen because of the rigorous and organized curriculum as well as native-speaker teachers. |