#64 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Lunar New Year Extravaganza + English Studies in China) January 7th 2007 My first college semester at Taizhou Teachers College is coming to an end, and its 7,000 students once again confront more sets of examinations, testing their study-skills and learning habits. These consist mostly of never-ending memorization, encouraged by almost all of their teachers, the amount of which has left me amazed and astonished.
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Asia » China » Jiangsu » Taizhou » Taizhou University For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
After 38 years as a Foreign Language Teacher and Foreign Language Dept. Chair at Coral Gables Sr. H.S., and A.J. Professor of German at the University of Miami, I have left Florida in June of 2006, where my home is in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. I have just signed another year's teaching-contract (my 8th year now) with Taizhou University in the city of Taizhou, located about 3hrs north of Shanghai, in Jiangsu Province, CHINA.
I thought it would be informative for others and rewarding for me personally, to log the progress of my efforts from beginning to end, as a Travel and Photo Jo... full info