| Teach English in China |
| All Majors Welcome |
| Register Online | Frequently Asked Questions |
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| Ms. Lea Walker is the founder and the President of the U.S. Chinese Culture Center. |
Dear friends, would you like to travel to China without paying a large sum of money? Would you like to experience a more in depth understanding of splendid Chinese culture instead of only a superficial understanding through cursory observation? If so, then your CHANCE is NOW. Click here for our current teachers’ comments. Please Bring your friends, classmates, parents, and family members to our Teach in China Info Session: 10 AM - Noon, Saturday, September 22nd, on Columbia campus of University of South Carolina: Humanities Classroom Building Room 202. Some of our returned teachers will talk about their wonderful experiences in China, and they will also answer your questions. |
| Universities, colleges, K-12 schools in China need many English and other specialty teachers, such as math, physics, chemistry, music, arts, linguistics, marketing, economics, law, accounting, language and literature... in fact, all majors! We also need other native language speakers: French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, etc. Our requirements are as follows: |
| a) Native English Speaker to teach English. |
| b) BA/BS degree or higher by the time of departure. |
| c) Between the age of 20-65 and in good health. |
| Those who have the Certificate of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL, or ESL) are especially welcome. Families are also welcome. You will teach in the same school for at least one academic year. |
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| March 2004, the China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) sponsored the 2004 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals in Nanjing City, China. Left: President of the Chinese Culture Center (CCC) Lea Walker (right) with General Manager of CCC Local Office in China Peihong Li (left) at the 2004 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals in Nanjing City, China. At the meeting, many schools and Universities requested American teachers and experts from CCC in the years to come. Right: Mr. Jun Wang, Manager of CCC's Local Office in Shandong Province, China, also attended the 2004 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals in Nanjing City, China | |
| Benefits for You: |
| 1. Free round-trip international airfare if you teach at the same school for one academic year to be paid by your host institution. |
| 2. Nice apartments usually with bedroom(s), a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen. Room size will accommodate the size of your family. Accommodations also include TV, phone, air-conditioner, furniture, cooking utensils, etc. |
| Salary: | 3,500-6,500 RMB Yuan per month. The same buying power as $3,500 - $5,500 in the US. The salary will commensurate with your teaching experience and the degree you have. Even the lowest salary is more than enough for your living in China. Compared with our local Chinese teachers’ average salary of 1,000 RMB Yuan per month, you will be able to live a very comfortable life in China with free housing. |
| Let’s start from the very beginning. Please send me the following application materials: |
| a) | Register online or fill out the application form: click here to download the form; |
| b) | Your one-page resume (Detailing your teaching-related experiences) by email and/or mail; |
| c) | A copy (letter-size) of your college diploma(s) and/or teacher's certificate (or TEFL/ESL) if you have one. |
| After preliminary screening, if you meet our basic requirements, more documents will be required. |
| The Chinese Culture Center, authorized and certified by the the China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), will assist you all the way through the tedious and complicated application process. We’ll get you a Chinese work visa, a work contract with a Chinese school, a Work Permit and a Certificate for Foreign Expert from the Chinese government. |
| Application Deadlines |
| Application Deadline: | Departure Time for China: |
| Extended to May 15, 2008 | First week of July for summer and late August for fall 2008 |
| October 15, 2008 | Late February 2009 |
| Training: |
| We offer training for our teaching candidates in basic Chinese, Chinese culture and customs at the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina. If you are not in Columbia, you may use our online training. TESL Certificates are to be awarded by the end of training for qualified on-site trainees who did not miss any classes and passed the 30-minute teaching trial successfully. You can download the training tapes here. |
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Program Fee (Free Training funded by grants, Free International Round-Trip Airfare, and Free Housing Paid by your host institution): Covers up to 10-year placements with satisfactory work performances for your host school, one background check, one Chinese visa fee $130, one visa service fee $50, work contracts for you with employers in China, booking plane tickets for groups of teachers to go to China together, making arrangements for the school officials to meet our teachers at a major Chinese airport, and all other related professional consultation and services. The program fee does not include any airfare. From your second placement and subsequent placements, you only need to pay your visa fee plus visa service fee for each new placement if necessary. |
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| Mr. Eric Albritton is CCC's Program Director for our Teach in China Program. He graduated from USC in December 2004 with a Bachelor's degree in International Studies. Eric went to China in February 2005 through our Teach in China Program, and did great job for his host school in Northern China. He had made a lot of friends there, and traveled all over China. Eric was adored by his students and colleagues in China due to his great teaching methods, friendly personality, and great job performances. He was on local TV and in newspapers all the time as a model foreign teacher. Upon his return in January 2006, Eric became CCC's Program Director and one of our TESL Instructors. Eric missed his teaching life in China, and went back in Feburary 2008 as our Local Director in China and teaching in our program at the same time. |
| North American Fees in US Dollars: |
| Program Fees for Contracts of: | 10 Months | 5 Months | Summer |
| Total | $998 | $950 | $750 |
| * If you go with your family: $550/each for children over 12, $530 each for children 2-11, and $500 each for children under 2. Please note that the program fees and related service fees are subject to change at any time without notice. |
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| Mr. Jeffrey Miller, one of our American teachers in China, specially came to Nanjing City with some of his Chinese colleagues on March 26 to meet Lea at the Zhongshan Hotel in Nanjing, for the 2004 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals. |
| Refund Policy: |
| If by the designated departure time, The Chinese Culture Center hasn't secured a teaching/working position in China for you, you'll get back whatever you've paid for the Teaching/Working in China Program (including the Summer Program) if you did not miss any application/payment deadlines, and submitted all the required documents by the official application deadline posted on the CCC web site at your application. In that case, you may keep our TESL training/materials/certificate as free gifts. You have nothing to lose, but wonderful work/life experiences and a brighter future to gain! Otherwise, no refund will be issued. |
| Flights: |
| The Chinese Culture Center is to book the group flight tickets for you, and you pay for the one-way airfare directly to the travel agency, and you'll get a receipt. For 10-month contracts (two semesters), your host school will reimburse you for your one-way airfare to go to China by the end of your contract (If you don't have an original receipt, you'll not get the reimbursement). And the school will also cover your return flights when you finish your contracts. For 5-month (one semester) contracts, the host school will only cover your return flights. For summer contracts, it depends on the negotiated terms with each individual sponsoring school and/or agency in China. When you first arrive in China, we will have someone from the school to meet you at the airport, and you can ask our local office there for help if you have any questions or problems. |
| At the end of your first academic year teaching contract, if you wish, we may place you in another school or even in another city/province without additional program fee, so that you will have chances to see different parts of China, and experience more varieties of life in China. |
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| Besides the 10-month term teaching positions, we also offer summer teaching positions, which are especially good for those who want to visit China or do internships during summers; and the sponsoring school will arrange some sightseeing and tours free for you just as for the 10-month term teachers. |
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| If you are interested in teaching in China, please register online and email us your resume today! |
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美中文化教育交流中心 Chinese Culture Center
Address:1708 Greene Street Columbia, SC 29201, USA Phone: (803) 252-9086 E-mail:USCCC@ChineseCultureCenter.org Web Master: David He |