Actually, I didn't think about it either This is a very good question.
According to the complexity of the answer, we respectively say three aspects:
1 revenue. 2. Teaching development. (covering personal value) 3 various entanglements.
Let's start with the simplest answer:
1 revenue
Generally speaking, people think that teachers in training schools earn more money, while teachers in public schools work hard, are overloaded all day and have low wages. This is not nonsense.
On 20 12, the new york times, where the American imperialists are dead and my heart is still alive, published an article with ulterior motives, asking how much is a professor worth? According to a survey of university professors in major countries in the world, Professor China's salary is the third lowest. Think about it, primary and secondary school teachers will definitely drop by several orders of magnitude.
Teachers in training schools are not all rich, which depends on the initial level of cities and teachers. In first-and second-tier cities, the salary ranges from 3,500 to 6,000 yuan when the class is just officially started. This may have exceeded the stable level of many public school teachers. If the teacher is good, loved by students, and the interpersonal relationship is not too bad, it is likely to enter the range of 6000-8000 after two years, and some people can even reach 10000. Some of them have excellent qualifications or the characteristics of public figures (such as witty remarks, outstanding looks, personal media and so on). ), it will reach the range of 10000-30000.
For teachers in public schools, it is estimated that the salary changes in three years, five years and eight years will not jump as much as in training schools.
Of course, our observation is definitely biased, which may be caused by the following reasons:
Training schools often focus on training some star teachers for recruitment needs or marketing promotion. First, let new teachers have the motivation to rise. Secondly, it also explains to students how successful the school is. This move gives people who don't know the truth an illusion: it seems that the teachers in the training school are all local tyrants.
There are a large number of unknown one-to-one teachers in the training school, and there are teachers who teach small classes of six people. Their wages range from 35- 100, which is actually very hard. But the competition within the organization is fierce, and the strong are like clouds. They have few opportunities for performance and narrow channels for promotion. Many people got stuck there and finally changed careers. You said that if you compare this group of people with teachers in public schools, it may be difficult to judge who is better paid?
Public schools have also trained many rich people, but this group of teachers must keep a low profile. Due to social pressure, or institutional pressure, or just living to understand, people are quietly getting rich. As far as I know, there are some excellent teachers in public schools who won the first place in the college entrance examination and later set up their own academic institutions. Spending two or three million a year is definitely not a problem. Maybe you don't even know their names.
So, I wonder if I answered your first question. Let's look at the second question, which is getting more and more complicated.
2 teaching development space
The first part stinks. Let's talk about ideals. Since the teacher is working so hard, why do others step forward?
Teaching others one thing is a technical job. First of all, you can't do too badly yourself. Secondly, you have to know the level of students. Finally, you will find the gap between these two points.
Some people are awesome themselves, but they can't teach others at all. Don't believe you try to teach foreigners Chinese yourself? Just because you can say it yourself doesn't mean you can teach them. Teachers who teach Chinese as a foreign language should have applause here. )
Some people are generally arrogant, but they know how to find the pain points of students and how to improve them. You can look at those little-known cram schools. Perhaps their own English is very general, not all grammar points can inspire your linguistic foundation, but practicality is paramount, and they can live well.
Some people have both sides. This is the teaching mode easy. Needless to say.
Speaking of two institutions, which can give you more room for teaching and exploration, so that you can practice how to teach?
I used to think that training institutions must have more freedom. There are three reasons:
1 Teachers in training institutions have more freedom in teaching.
As long as it works, teachers in training institutions can have more space to explore their skills. For example, a long time ago, a senior teacher in New Oriental could sometimes speak foreign experience and western ideas without speaking language points in a class. This is called establishing a positive attitude towards language, which is meaningful in teaching theory. Teachers in public schools are even more difficult to do. For example, some small private studios directly use foreign textbooks, organize teaching through classroom activities, and even do scientific experiments of PBL, which is also difficult to do under the syllabus.
Because of getting rid of many administrative and institutional constraints, teachers in training schools can realize what is meaningful to some extent. Looking back on my own education, the real "education" is mostly obtained in cram schools. The Catholic Church always gives me counterexamples and tells me not to be such a person.
Hippie, Confucius is actually the epitome of the cram school system for thousands of years. He traveled in the wilderness with a group of ragged people. If he is happy, just say a few words and debate. It will be boring when the future ruler puts his statue in a temple with a roof.
Teachers in training institutions have more time to enrich themselves.
More or less driven by money, teachers in training institutions are more willing to learn independently. People sometimes talk about teacher training in training institutions. In fact, it is because they love learning and feel that they have not learned enough. Teachers in training institutions have flexible class hours, so they have more opportunities to read an original English book, travel abroad and take some online courses.
For example, among the more than 200 teachers in Tucker College last year, a large number were teachers in training schools or private studios. The study intensity of Tower College requires two hours of teaching every week, and there may be other time to digest the content and do online teaching tasks. What followed was precisely the training institution teachers with personal motives. This has much to do with the composition of their working hours.
This is a virtuous circle: because most training institutions can provide better salaries, they can naturally choose more teachers with high quality. These people may be motivated. Because of their outstanding performance, they are more likely to get higher hourly wages, work less time to support themselves and spend more time to enrich themselves. Then the stronger you are, the more money you will make, and then you will be your own studio. Please ask the organization to operate costs and make more money.
Teachers in public institutions are actually part of the national education machine and must play the role of national historical narrator. The so-called national historical narrative does not mean that you are allowed to talk about history. This outline represents the country's expectation of young people, and teachers have the task of conveying this expectation. In addition, teachers in public institutions need to take on the responsibilities of many parents, doing repetitive work day after day and year after year.
I made an inappropriate metaphor, which was really inappropriate. Training institutions are like high-end prostitutes in ancient times. They may have to eat youth food, learn a lot of music, literature and poetry skills, and fight against prostitutes of new green tea, but they live a carefree life. The institution is a woman who is married to Han. She is supported and respected, but she has to work as a yellow-faced woman and buy it out day after day.
Teachers in training institutions have more opportunities to broaden their horizons.
I once said that there are three ways to enrich your life: reading, traveling and meeting people.
Of course, reading takes time, and you need to let others tell you which to read. Books popular in different circles are definitely different, and it is very important to mix and match. Some people only see the official WeChat account forwarded by others, some people read the Chinese version of the bestseller two years ago, and some people directly use the Kindle to buy the original text recommended by last week's American cultural talk show. This is the difference between people.
Training institutions usually have a tradition of traveling abroad. Many teachers are turtles themselves, and even if they study abroad for a short time, they have seen it. There are also many managers of training institutions who have experience in living abroad and encourage employees to go out and watch. Don't think that traveling is a waste of money. People's ideas will change because of knowledge, their style of doing things will change, their actions will change, and the results may change.
The last one is to know people, please refer to the virtuous circle mentioned above. Because the salary is good, it is easy to attract people who may be better, so even if you are not the biggest fish, it is good to look. Moreover, these people are not necessarily arrogant, and there are many real Daniel, who are modest, kind and helpful, which is also the strength of your progress.
Okay, I said three reasons. But it's all my thoughts.
Of course, I once doubted whether education can really develop freely only in a public state.
Because the opposite of training institutions is forced by money.
Although I think it is reasonable, legal, fair and just to make money by knowledge, I do see a lot of fraud. In order to recruit students, many people talk about "teaching you to master IELTS reading in four hours", "forming American thinking in 28 days" and "breaking TOEFL words in 10 days", and there are a series of crash slogans similar to those of classes and cult organizations that guarantee grades. I really believe that they know in their hearts that this is wrong, but they can only talk nonsense for money.
Because the survival rules of training institutions are not always fair.
Where is complete fairness? Teachers in institutions have met people who are likely to teach in general, just because they are handsome and tall, just because they can say a few compliments to female students, just because they like to strip and dance with their mouths open, and they still earn five figures. So it's very frustrating. Many tourists come to me to complain about what's going on in the world. The world is like this: the ecology of training institutions is like the entertainment industry to some extent. Although some people are good-looking, they are full of shit, but unfortunately they are not good-looking.
So, sometimes I think:
Maybe if you do education according to scientific theory with peace of mind, you can't make money in a hurry, you can't read performance reports all day, and you can't shout anti-human crash slogans with the crowd. But teachers in public schools also told me that there are other worries without looking at grades. They don't shout slogans, but they have endless homework evaluations. They don't have to be funny, but they have leadership relationships to maintain.
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
Many of my respected colleagues have decided to hold their own seminars. There are a group of students who understand science and a group of teachers who are at ease. They charge reasonable tuition fees and there are no flashy advertisements. Teachers have a dignified life of rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and students are making progress step by step. I'm thinking, with the promotion of science and technology, maybe the era of self-employed revival has arrived? (However, the self-employed are not suitable for everyone. I will write a post later. Some people struggle with this system, so they go all the way to the executives. Others study abroad and teach each other after marriage.
Well, speaking of which, I can sum it up.
Income: From my intuitive feeling, the income of the strong in the training school will be good. If you are weak, you may not be happy in training institutions, but you may live slowly in institutions.
Teaching growth: From my one-sided observation, training institutions and institutions are equally divided. The advantages and disadvantages of the former have been analyzed for you, including ideal rose color and copper coin khaki color.
Career development: I wrote a post before, and both male and female teachers can refer to the career development path of female teachers. I won't say much. I'm not sure about the teachers in public institutions. I guess you can refer to the promotion model of civil servants.
Three complex exceptions
Finally, I will talk about many exceptions. They are all teachers I have ever met, and some of them are outstanding young people I met in Ta College:
Teacher 1: a teacher of a training institution, a second-tier city, with average spoken English. After entering the training institution, he was very depressed. He can't compete with others everywhere. He simply gave up, slacked off his teaching work and complained all day about having no money. Finally, when a teaching task was not completed, it was finally invited out of the institution.
Not all people in training institutions make big money. Not everyone is so motivated.
Teacher 2: Public school teacher, married with children, second-tier city. Not only do you have to support your family, but you also have to learn English in the evening, participate in online teacher training, actively communicate with your classmates and make jokes. It is also deeply loved by students at school. I have seen the photos of the classroom he sent. This is a kind of happiness.
-People in public institutions are not all hard-working people, and they will be happy wherever they pursue.
Teacher 3: The tortoise returned to his town, opened a workshop, and taught children in third-tier cities with advanced foreign methods, relaxed and orderly. The students around me are very recognized and happy to work in their hometown.
The strong and the weak are a comparative advantage. You asked me how to choose a city, compared with my own ability. A one-year master's degree in Britain may be nothing in Beijing, but it will be a big event; But in the town below Handan, this person is a baby.
I said a little too much today. What I see here is true love. I hope I have answered your question. No matter where I work, I have to ask my heart: am I happy?
Whether a person is happy or not is related to how much money he earns, but it is also related to the interpersonal relationship around him and the pursuit of knowledge and culture. If you think it will make you happy, do it.
-Cui Mian, the former tower owner of the tower.