Canadian teacher Bryan: I have never experienced the changes of China in my Canadian hometown

Bryan has taken his English language advantage as a stepping stone. He said,“It was very easy to teach English in China at that time. China needed and still needs a lot of Oral English teachers. Many places are interested in improving students' English.” However, he was obsessed with science teaching since his major was mathematics and science. So he moved to Zhengzhou Middle School to teach mathematics three years later. After living in Zhengzhou for four years, Bryan wanted to try a new city. So he came to Shanghai in 2014.

As he had expected, Bryan, upon first arriving in Shanghai, felt the internationalization of the city. Here, he did not feel "unique" as he had when he first arrived in Zhengzhou ten years earlier.

Bryan took to teaching at No.2 high school like a duck to water. Founded in 1958, this school is the only national key middle school in Shanghai directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education. It is known for its high quality teaching at home and abroad. Founded in 1999, the International Department is one of the five public international departments approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government to recruit foreign students aged from 12 to 18 for credential schooling.

In China, the school represents the reform and innovation of basic education. Since the end of the 1980s, the school has carried out in-depth educational reforms in all aspects, and has piloted national science classes and Shanghai science classes in high schools to conduct experimental research on the education model of science education integrated with humanities education. At the turn of the century, it established the first "master teacher system" in the country.

Group photo of foreign teachers from the International Department of the No.2 high school of East China Normal University