Should China enforce tighter rules on foreign teachers?

TedM (UK)

Teaching is a profession with professional standards. Teachers have enormous responsibilities. It follows that a teacher should be required to meet and keep strict standards. Developing countries are often keen to attract native English speakers to teach English and can be casual in who they allow to work. Often such teachers are excellent, but a few may have no qualifications and/or no experience, and little knowledge of teaching skills. Teaching English abroad has been an attraction to many university graduates who wish to travel the world ... but they stay only for a short time before moving on. Sometimes their lessons are rather shallow and unprepared. Any move to check the value of foreign people who wish to teach abroad is probably a good thing.