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Beijing National Day School
Nick Nightingale, English
Over the past 25yrs in Asia, my life and work have taken me from Mumbai to Melbourne.
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Beijing Renmin University
David Wheeler, Physics
I began my teaching career in 2003 after graduating with a Medical Physics degree from the University of Wales.
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Changchun High School
The role of a Centre Principal is twofold to make sure that the teachers have what they need to teach, students what they need to learn and to create and collegiate atmosphere conducive to teaching and learning.
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Changzhou Senior High School
Nick Cala, Teacher in Changzhou
Although my classroom certainly seems more homogenous at a glance in Changzhou, I’ve found that the students here nonetheless will engage at a much deeper level when they feel that what makes them unique is included in the classroom. For this reason, my time spent in New York City certainly had a profound effect on my pedagogy.
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Chengdu Foreign Languages School
I miss all the students that I had before, and I keep a vivid memory of many of them, but I could not be happier with the kids that I am currently working with.
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Chengdu Shishi High School
Ryan Strugnell, Teacher of Maths and Physics
My path to teaching here in Chengdu is a rather unique one. Arriving in Chendgu and not finding an appropriate Engineering employment was the tipping point for me to turn back to teaching as a career change.
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Dalian No.24 High School
Gavin Wheatley, Economics
After graduating I worked for a short time in the hospitality industry before I decided on a career in education.
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Fuyang HS
Shawn Campbell, English
I was born in Lansing, Michigan, in the northern part of America. Before coming to the Fuyang AP Center, I worked at the Fuyang High School as an ESL teacher.
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Hangzhou Foreign Language School
Jeremy Exelby, Chemistry
After spending many years in the chemical industry, I decided several years ago to return to my first choice of career – that of teaching.
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Hangzhou No 14 Secondary School
Thomas Merchant, Mathematics, Hangzhou AP Center
My ultimate goal is to help students become first-rate people, capable of making important and long-lasting contributions to their society and the world.
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Nanjing Foreign Language School
Isobel Bartz, Music and Theory of Knowledge
By offering music, students learn a variety of skills that will undoubtedly serve them in other areas of their life such as self-discipline, stage presentation and self-confidence.
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Nanjing Jinling High School
Jhune Guay- Physics and Chemistry
Nanjing not only provides a large variety of social activities and entertainment, but also an experience of China's culture and history.
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Ningbo Foreign Language School
Richard Wilkin, Centre Principal
For the previous three years, Richard Wilkin worked in United Arab Emirates as a teacher trainer where he trained English teachers and helped these teachers improve their pedagogical skills through regular classroom observations, feedback, and coaching.
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Ningbo Xiaoshi High School
My colleagues at Xiaoshi are passionate and dedicated educators who are willing to collaborate and support each others' professional growth as well as their adaptation to the local environment.
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Ningbo Zhenhai High School
Shane Anderson, English
I'm Canadian, 28, and love to teach. Unfortunately, the market for our trade back home is dismal, and I grew sick and tired of trying to find a job in my home country.
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RDFZ AP Xishan
Erin Yakiwchuk, AP Economics Teacher
My formal educational background consists of degrees in Commerce and Education, and my teaching experience has included time in Germany as well as in the Canadian public school system.
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Shanghai High School
Margaret Hadley, Centre Principal
I have been in education for 35 years. 15 years of my educational career was spent as a School Principal of K-12 school for 850 students in Sydney, Australia.
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Shenzhen Foreign AP
Kurt Kahlenbeck, Centre Principal
I was a teacher and administer in the US for 10 years and east Asia for 19 years before joining Dipont.
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Suzhou Experimental School
Mark Brown, Teacher of English Literature
I spent two years teaching English in Korea before returning to UBC to complete studies in Education.
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Tianjin Foreign Language School
Ultimately finding himself in search of new challenges, and determined that his young sons learn, firsthand, about other countries and cultures, he sought a position halfway around the world in China … and here he is.
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Wuxi Jiangsu Tianyi High School
The main benefit I have experienced is, simply, the quality of student I am working with.
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Wuxi No. 1 High School
Eduardo Escolar, Chemistry
I graduated in 1992 as a Licenciado en Educacion with speciality in Chemistry and Biology.
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Xi'an Gaoxin No. 1 Middle School
My lifestyle in Xi’an can be described as quiet with sporadic moments of excitement.
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Zhangjiagang IVY Experimental School
Tom Stephens, English and Economics
I think at Dipont the work hard, play hard model is in effect.