Hess Kindergarten
Hess operates Kindergarten schools in the ROC, giving students instruction primarily in English and Chinese, but also French and Japanese. The teaching philosophy of Hess Kindergarten focuses on whole-child development, and whole language learning. Prior to August 2005, the curriculum was the Rainbow Kids series, consisting of 6 levels or three years of material. As of August 2005 it has been updated and graduated as the Rainbow Adventures series. The Rainbow Adventures series is considered to be more challenging and therefore more suitable in a crowded market.
It must be stressed that teaching English to children under 6 years old is illegal when the teacher is an alien resident of the ROC. Hess has gotten around this restriction by registering English teachers' work permits at schools where they do not actually teach. Because the teachers are not formally employed expressly to teach kindergarten (their official status is roughly equivalent to a guest lecturer), Hess is able to employ foreigners to teach in their kindergartens with less legal trouble than in some other schools. Nonetheless, in most cases, Hess will have these "guest lecturers" exit through the back door when government inspectors arrive. Many experienced Hess teachers look favorably upon kindergarten contracts, as the hours are greater and steadier than at the language school, leave room for time in the evenings, and require less unpaid grading and overall documentation than at the Hess language school.
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