First Day of School - Things to Remember as a TESOL Teacher
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First Day of School - Things to Remember as a TESOL Teacher

By Jessica Shyu — August 28, 2013 1 min read
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Jessica Shyu
Jessica Shyu has written three blogs for Education Week (On the Reservation, Lessons From China, New Terrain). Her background included working as the head of training for Teach for China, a program director for Teach for America, and as a special education teacher with Teach for America.

I don’t talk anywhere near enough about how resilient, patient, thoughtful, fearless, passionate, pioneering, loving and just plain awesome our Teach For China teachers are. But that’s what they are.

It doesn’t matter whether they’re living off the side of a mountain or in a flooded factory town, or whether they get a little or a lot of electricity/water/internet, or even whether they’re from America or China. The fact is, they chose to uproot their lives and love the kids we serve long before they have even met them.

All that’s left to say is, happy first day of school and don’t panic.

Photo by Sean Sukol, Teach For China 2013-15 Teaching Fellow

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