MEF World (MEF English)

As a MEF teacher I was able to discover my passion for teaching children and being a mentor for young minds across the world. This experience opened some many doors and opportunities taking me to new places. This company provided me with so much support during my transition to a new culture. This company provided me with benefits that extended beyond the pay and the housing allowances, they provided me a new place a could call home and extended family.

I spent a year working overseas with MEF teaching English in a Chinese kindergarten. When I look back on my time with them I have nothing but awesome memories and i'm so glad that I went! At first, when I started to look for teaching jobs overseas, it was quite a daunting prospect - travelling so far and to such an exotic place seemed a bit scary, but I was fretting over nothing. Derek and his team have years of experience helping teachers relocate, and the whole experience was safe and professional. Once I was set up at my school I was kept well stocked with teaching resources which were intuitive, fun to use, and really engaging for the kids. Truthfully, I could have spent much longer in China as it's such an interesting and beautiful country, but I chose to move back to England and enrol in full time teacher training. I would gladly signpost anybody looking to teach in Asia to MEF as I am sure they will enjoy their time abroad as much as I did.

Hey everybody, this is Rachel. I live in China working for M.E.F It’s great here. There’s a lot of other foreigners here. We get together a lot, it’s a big support system. On Sundays we have Chinese classes, because I didn't know any Chinese before I came here but I'm steadily learning it. It’s very useful, and once a month we have meetings to share what we’ve been using in our classrooms, what works well, if anybody has any ideas to share, we do that as well, and it's great here. I really enjoy it. I highly recommend M.E.F it’s a great program lots of support, there’s Chinese teachers here that help you out, if you ever need anything you can reach out to them and they’re very supportive, there’s lots of materials that they have so we have access to, to bring to our classrooms and really it’s just great.