About Teaching Job Hunting in Guangzhou--Vacancies in Schools and Colleges

I. American International School of Guangzhou

Remunerations:

* Salary Range: $ 28,980 - 62,208 (placement depends on teacher certification and advanced degrees)
* Retirement (10% of base salary)
* Monetized Sick Leave - Unused sick leave is paid to the teacher (one day per month) at the teacher's daily rate of pay.
* Health Insurance
* Life Insurance
* Disability Insurance
* Professional Development Allowance
* Tuition Waiver for Children

Other benefits:

* Housing
* Transportation to and from the Teacher's Point of Origin
* Home Leave
* Shipping Allowance
* Settling in Allowance

Interested applicants should send a resume to:

Dr. David Shawver at dshawver@aisgz.edu.cnor fax: 8620-8735-3339

II. Oxford Academy Guangzhou

Is looking for CELTA qualified EFL teachers for its new school in downtown Guangzhou.

The school is managed by Victoria Harwood who has been living and teaching in China for the past three years.

We are offering the following package:

1. Salary ranging from US$ 1100 to US$ 1400 depending on experience and qualifications.
2. Single accommodation in a fully furnished comfortable 2 bed roomed apartment, or living-allownce
3. Return flights
4. 30 days holiday a year
5. Medical insurance
6. End of contract gratuity (one months pay)
7. Visa and work permit
8. Professional Development Programme
9. 2 consecutive days off a week
10. Average of 25 class teaching hours per week
11. One or two year contracts


Oxford Academy is a state of the art school located in the CBD of Guangzhou and has the following facilities:

- modern classrooms equipped with monitors, DVDs, OHPs etc
- Self Access Centre for students
- Internet access at all times
- Well equipped staff room

Please contact Victoria Harwood at office@edupro-china.com or on (020) 38879456/7/8/9

Liaison: Ms. Victoria M Harwood
Email: office@edupro-china.com
Tel: 8620 38879456

III. Nanhu College of Industry and Commerce

Vacancy: English Teacher (1 openning)
Starting Date: From March, 2007 to July,2007
Contract Duration: 6 months
Monthly Salary (RMB): 6000 per month after tax payment for BA degree. RMB 7000 per month for MA degree
Nationality: US, UK, Canada, Australia
Teaching experience: at least 1 year’s teaching experience in or out China
Contact person: Anky
E-mail: anky.zheng@163.com
Add.: No.9 Jinzhou South Rd.,Huangpu, Guangzhou,China
Postcode:510720
Website: www.nhic-edu.com  


IV. HaoHan Educational Co. Ltd.

My schools are public senior high schools in the open cities beautiful landscape- Jinan city, shandong Province and Guangzhou city, Guangdong province.

We are looking for healthy, dynamic, motivated, enthusiastic and matured instructors who have the passion to help young Chinese learners to learn and grow.

We offer 20 positions with a four month contract in and around Jinan city and 15 positions with a ten month contract in Guangzhou city.

The short time contract is good for the people who are the first time go to China. You can experience the different culture and get used to Chinese teaching with the short contract then get ready for your next job in China. ESL teachers just only need to teach oral English. We provide curriculum for ESL teachers. You just only need to follow the books to make lesson plans with Chinese billingual teachers together. We don't ask for exam by ESL teachers. Students are very good at writing English, they are keen to speak up in English. ESL teachers will be very popular by students. People are very friendly around the city. New teachers will get a lot help on/off campus. Cost living is very cheap. You will have a very easy living with the salary. Apply it now, you will have a wonderful time in China.

15 positions in Guangzhou:

Context:

1. A ten month full time contract with 15 positions in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province; Contract period is between 1st March 2007 to 15th January 2008.

1). Paycheck is 5000RMB monthly.
2). Students' age are 3 to 15 year old.
3). Visa will be processed by company once you arrive at Jinan city.
4). Teaching hours are 20 per week.
5). 2 days off each week, weekend is off. You just only need to work at daytime during Monday to Friday. So you will have enough time to relax and experience the different culture.
6). Free accommodation. The apartment is fully furnished,computer, internet access, TV, phone, air conditioner, kitchen utilities,hot shower, and washing machine.
7) We need 15 ESL teachers. Provided teaching training before start teaching by company.
8). Guangzhou airport pick up.
9) Candidates' Qualifications: Native-English speakers have a BA degree and a TESOL certification with a neutral accent from Canada, US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Candidates' age are 25 to 40 year old.
My school will provide the teaching textbooks for esl teachers. You need to make the lesson plans by yourself.
There is one billingual teacher in the classroom to help foreign teacher all the time. ESL teachers will be evaluated by parents. You need to be at school for the teaching time, 20 classes per week and English corner sometimes.
Simple Application Proccess:

Those native English speakers who are interested, please submit:

1. A short cover letter;
2. A complete resume;
3. A clear recent photo;
4. Scan of passport;
5. Available date
6. Highest education certificate.

And any other relevant information you think might help your application.

Contact:

Recruitment manager: Chelsea Chan
Email: helloesl@gmail.com
MSN: eslinchina@hotmail.com
For more information, please go to http://www.gapyearway.com  

V. Guangdong Peizheng College

Employment Conditions

The teachers work under a contract which starts first of September and ends thirtieth of June. The teachers work ten months and get paid for ten months.

According to the contract, the teachers are expected to teach about 24 classes a week. Each class is about 50 minutes. The teachers are also expected to work five 8-hour days per week - teaching classes and/or guiding students in their extracurricular activities.

The pay is in RMB - the money used in China. One U.S. dollar is equivalent to about RMB 8.3. The regular monthly salary is RMB 2500. Besides the regular pay, the teachers get an allowance of RMB 500 for food and RMB 500 for utilities (including phone calls). If a teacher stays over for a second year, there may be a small increase of salary.

The school can supply simple meals to the teachers. However, no teacher had in the past taken the option of receiving meals from the school. They all had chosen to take the RMB 500 allowance and buy their own meals and/or cook for themselves.

The salary of RMB 2500 ( approximately US$ 300 ) sounds like very little money. However, considering the low cost of living in China, the money can go very far. Most teachers can not spend all the RMB 1000 allowance for their daily living. The salary of approximately US$ 300 can all be saved for their holiday need. This kind of saving can not be achieved by most of the graduates in U.S. on their first job.

With the saving, most of the teachers in the past managed to take one to two long trips in China plus one trip to South East Asia seeing countries like Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia or India.

Mandarin tutoring is available to all foreign teachers completely free. Many of our teachers got very good jobs after they returned home because their knowledge in China and her language.

The standard housing for teachers is double room. Two teachers shares a bed room and four teachers share a two-bedroom house or apartment. If conditions allow, the school will provide single rooms for teachers. Single rooms will be allocated on first come first serve basis. The date a signed contract arrives in our school determines the priority. The school will not know who gets a single room and who gets a double room until all the teachers arrive in Huadu.

There are seven houses built specially for the foreign teachers. All the seven houses had two bed rooms and two baths. They were designed by a Pui Ching alumnus, an award winning architect now teaching in UC Berkeley. In the lake side foreign teachers' compound, there is also a club house where the foreign teachers can relax or meet large group of students in special occasions. The foreign teachers' compound has been a show piece of China for the past few years.

The houses are air-conditioned. They are fully equipped with refrigerators, stoves and televisions.

The school will be responsible for a round trip economy air ticket from most major cities in North America to Hong Kong or Guangzhou. Most cities served by United is acceptable to the school. The school will also be responsible for the transportation from Hong Kong to the school. There are many limitations and details concerning the air tickets written in the employment contract. The prospective teachers are advised to read the employment contract very carefully.

The cost of the visa will be born by the school. However, starting September 1997, China will not issue work visa to any teacher without a bachelor's degree. The school can apply the work visa for the teach if he or she can get a letter from his or her university certifying that he or she will be graduating in June and will have a bachelor's degree in September when employment starts.

Any religious activities is forbidden by law and teachers will definitely get into trouble if they try to organize anything religion related.

Although the teachers are expected to work a 40 hour week conducting up to 24 sections of classes, nobody in the past managed to squeeze in that many sections because they will run into conflict with other classes. Regardless what the contract most of the teachers have a lot of free time of their own and they always enjoy spending their time with the students.

If there is any difference between this information sheet and the employment contract, the conditions in the contract will apply.

1.Email to hdpcoc@public.guangzhou.gd.cn with Subject : PCCC Foreign Teacher Application

2. Mail the above application form to the following address :
Foreign Affairs Office
Pui Ching College of Commerce
# 1 Peizheng Ave, Chini Town,
Huadu Distric City of Guangzhou,
Postcode: 510830
P.R. China
Attn : Mr. Peter Chen

3. Fax the above application form to : 86-20-8671-0135

(Collected by Helena Zhang)

Source: www.lifeofguangzhou.com

Editor: Helena Zhang