"Most Chinese students do not have the maturity or intellect to guage whether or not an FT's teaching style and methodology is effective or not."

I'm supposed to be enjoying my holiday in Thailand, which I am; however, the wailing and gnashing of teeth on these sites can be a bit addictive ,I find.

I think I would agree with Kevin's sentiment-in China I have often found that the best way of being popular and getting good feedback from the students is actually by not being a very good teacher at all, but rather by being a good white monkey entertainer.

Mostly us FT's are not employed in China for our teaching skills (most of us wouldn't get jobs cleaning out the toilets in our own countries), we are largely employed for promotional reasons. This can make life very uncomfortable, especially in crap training centres where if you try and teach well you run the risk of upsetting your students and consequently taken to task by your employers, fined and even sacked and labelled as a bad teacher to boot. This can even happen in universities where bums on seats are cash for leaders, just the same. (good universities are better-many crap ones however)

At the end of the day you can't actually blame students for a bad attitude to good FT's, it's not their fault if their leaders have little interest in their learning good English, and more interested in keeping them happy and entertained by white monkey FT's. Chinese students do not dare to treat their own Chinese teachers with the same contempt they often show towards FT's.

I do not know how to be a good teacher and a popular one in China-I just settle for being a bit unpopular and completely disregarding any criticism. Not that I'm a top teacher but I try my best.