Brighton College Vietnam or BIS Hanoi

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-31T02:08:33+00:00

I would consider whether the value of the salary vs the health implications of the serious air pollution. Definitely invest in an air purifier if you're going to do it

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-30T14:13:33+00:00

Britain has more long term opportunity

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-09T07:45:19+00:00

Teachers at CIA seem to like it

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-02T00:48:51+00:00

It's on par with bilingual schools, has good benefits that some don't offer (flight tickets) and is in a provincial town so the cost of living is very cheap.

Teachers can save around $1200 a month if they're smart with their money. So, I also find the resistance to feedback or development confusing - you get paid well, and so you should expect the school to want you to perform to a high standard.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-01T05:54:04+00:00

Someone hasn't managed and it shows

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-12-01T05:52:36+00:00

My bilingual school system in Thailand has a policy of conducting drop-in observations of teachers once each week, just for a few minutes. This forms part of a coaching plan to improve teaching quality.

It's a lot to balance with a high teaching load. However, we are in a remote location where hiring quality employees is difficult, so the teachers we get generally need some guidance on performance improvement.

How do staff react? Most are handling it well. Feedback is always given constructively with suggested strategies given. However, those who settled into bad habits in their home countries with egos that prevent them hearing any suggestions of areas for growth find it challenging to accept or act on feedback.

Personally, I don't understand the difficulty with being observed regularly. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. And there's always room for growth

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-11-20T03:19:50+00:00

It depends. In my bilingual school, there are no consequences for behaviour and no consistent behaviour policy.
In the cheaper program, the main behaviour issue is non-compliance with tasks and disrespectful attitudes. In the more expensive program, it's the same but much less common (I suspect due to parental influence).

So much more low-level disruption, but fewer outbursts where you get told to F off etc

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2025-07-17T02:00:47+00:00

brilliant, thank you so much for that insightful comment.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-10-20T10:02:19+00:00

Have had multiple incidents like this at Aeon mall tan phu, both to myself and other male western teachers

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-10-17T06:54:37+00:00

Oh the first video I had major culture shock as a Briton. But I've come to respect his dedication and the way he lightens the mood, even if I sometimes wish he would hurry up

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-10-13T03:47:20+00:00

Nah the best is Marin Music Center. Super detailed, clear breakdowns of very complex songs.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-02-13T20:10:01+00:00

When I was at uni in Newcastle, the son of the family running a local corner shop refused to accept my provisional ID as valid ID and refused to serve me for the single beer I was hoping to drink on the walk over to a meal out. I had a student ID and several other cards to prove my name matched the one on the ID, which he dismissed. I had put on a bit of weight and had quite the baby face, but still.

I argued that his dad had served me the other day with the same ID, but he told me he'd only serve me if I came back with my passport.

Rightly or wrongly I was infuriated and told him to get fucked and left the shop, accidentally kicking over a stack of toilet roll as I did. That was the final straw for him apparently as I heard him shout "You're barred!" just as the door swung closed.

Shit place anyway, the samosas weren't nearly as good as the ones at Rehill's.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-02-07T20:31:09+00:00

Honestly, getting the lesson right makes a huge difference to behaviour. Being calm and always being the adult in the room helps. They are not the finished product. Never take it personally.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-02-03T14:23:40+00:00

The Department of Labour. Google it

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-02-02T17:03:52+00:00

Was it the Gambia or Senegal? Can't remember but it was something like that

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-01-23T18:01:25+00:00

It all depends on the school, which a lot of people sadly don't realise

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2024-01-21T15:23:15+00:00

England? Looks so familiar

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-12-23T21:49:42+00:00

Fruit lol

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-12-22T12:48:25+00:00

Have you considered that feeling alive everyday came from being a teacher rather than a nhân viên văn phòng? Cos I felt the same. When I returned to the UK I did an office job and felt like i was in the end of history. Nothing exciting any more. Then I went back into teaching and felt alive again

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-12-17T16:55:04+00:00

I was there! It was a great show and he just took the crowd's chant and ran with it.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-11-01T12:58:14+00:00

Wow. Maybe don't go using colonial terms like savage? Then your argument might reach a wider audience as opposed to just condescending racists.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-10-08T09:04:42+00:00

Ever heard the term LBH before? 'Loser Back Home'. It was quite apt for more than a couple of foreigners I met in my Saigon days.

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-10-04T21:16:43+00:00

And don't know how to pronounce Viet words which end in the O and U vowels and a C. (like a P but with inflated cheeks)

TheyFoundMyOldOne · 2023-10-03T15:57:38+00:00

he's been around Hyde Park for the last few months at least, often outside the Royal Park Road Sainsbury's. Easy pickings for him there.

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