Hey great info thanks for that!
The person that i have been in email contact with is a person by the name of Destin Hodges and is just a gmail address…
this is what was sent to me. Your input on this would be great you seem to have a great knowedge of the town…
Here is a little more about the position. As far as the working hours, the nice thing about this position is that you have a set schedule from 1:50pm to 9:00pm and that does not change. Here is how those hours will be spent:
Mon Tues Thurs Fri
Three 30-minute kindergarten classes from 2:00 to 3:40 with a 10 minute break in the middle.
After your last class at the kindergarten you will travel to the buxiban (cram school) and work from around 4:00pm to 9:00pm, during which period you will teach anywhere from 2.5 to 4 hours of class. The time that you don’t have classes can be used for lesson preparation, making materials, personal interaction with the students, and making phone calls (we call the students about once a week to ask them review questions covering that week’s lessons).
Wednesdays are a little different. When your three classes at the kindergarten finish at 3:40, you will be asked to stay at the kindie for one-on-one testing with the kids from 4:00p to 4:30p. You will then go to the buxiban, where you will have none or possibly one class. You will most likely use the rest of this time on Wednesday’s to catch up on phone calls, but there is also plenty of time to plan lessons and interact with the students.
We provide all the curriculum and ask teachers to work with our curriculum. However, how the teacher wishes to teach the material is up to them. So there certainly is a level of creativity. Our overall policy is to ensure all children are fully engaged and enjoy the class at the same time as enjoying the class.
Let me tell you a little more about our student population here. At the kindergarten, the students range from 5-7 years old, and there are about 25 students per class; however, you will have one or two cooperating Taiwanese teachers in the room to help. At the buxiban, the students are a bit older, about 9-16 years old with only 4-12 kids per class. You are the only teacher in the classroom at the buxiban, but Taiwanese teachers will be available in the office if you need them.
The total teaching hours per week will be between 19 and 24 hours. Regardless of your actual teaching hours, we would pay you a salary of 65000 TWD per month. In addition to this we will provide you with your own furnished, self–contained accommodation, fully paid for by the school (with the exception of utility bills, estimated at around 500NT per month). The School will also pay for wireless internet service. Furthermore we will provide you with the value of a round trip air ticket from your home country as a bonus on completion of your years contract. We also provide all our teachers with a working ARC and medical insurance. Also, all training time is paid at the full-salaried rate.