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Xiaodan “Dandan” Huang, professor in SSU’s Department of Education, left, welcomes former student and SSU alumni, Ty Marshall, formerly of Portsmouth, who is teaching in China and came back to Portsmouth to visit.

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Ty Marshall, formerly of Portsmouth, a 2011 graduate of Shawnee State University, first went to China as a student teacher. He had 18 classes with at least 50 students or more in each class – around 1,000 students.

“These kids are so eager to learn,” Marshall said. “It is so gratifying to see students avidly paying attention. They want to learn.”

Marshall recently married a Chinese teacher, Yuan “Panda” Zi, who was an exchange student at Shawnee State where they met. He now teaches kindergarten in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, in a private school with about 28 students in his class.

“If you have a college degree,” Marshall said. “There is no shortage of jobs there – especially if you are an English teacher or an education major, you’ll have people fighting over you.”

Source: Shawnee State University