Teach English or Your Specialty

or Basketball in China
All Majors Welcome
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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? Do you want to learn Chinese in China without paying the tuition, boarding, or international airfare? If so, then your CHANCE is here. Click here for our current teachers’ comments.
Universities, colleges, K-12 schools, and basketball training centers in China need many English and other specialty teachers, such as math, physics, chemistry, music, arts, linguistics, marketing, economics, law, accounting, language and literature, physical education, basketball...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 (no degree requirment for summer teachers or backetball coaches).
        c) Between the age of 20-65 and in good health.

Basketball Coaches/Youth Mentors:
Work at basketball training camps for youth in China to improve their playing skills, developmental progress and their ability to use English. Requires experience playing basketball at the college level or coaching at the middle or high school level, or a P.E. degree with basketball training experience. Ideal for retired teachers/coaches. Good salary and living expenses/travel costs covered by the employer. Online application through www.chineseculturecenter.org, the same registration form as other teaching applicants.


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. Free housing usually with bedroom(s), a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen. Room size will accommodate the size of your family. Accommodations also include a TV, phone, air-conditioner, furniture, cooking utensils, and beddings, etc.

3. Free Chinese lessons offered by your host school.

4. Professional support and liaison services offered by Chinese Culture Center 24/7 for our teachers and their families both in the US and in China. We even offer our teachers 2 toll-free phone numbers to call our US office during their entire stay in China.

5. Chinese Culture Center negotiates and secures the highest pay possible and the best terms possible in your work contract with our well-established partner schools and colleges in China.

Salary:
4,000-6,500 RMB Yuan per month (the same buying power as $4,000 - $6,500 in the US). The salary will be commensurate with your teaching experience and college degree. 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, and free international round-trip airfare.

Let’s start from the very beginning. Please send me the following application materials:
a) Register online to fill out the application form;
b) Your one-page resume (detailing your teaching-related experiences if any) as .doc file by email attachment.



After preliminary screening, if you meet our basic requirements, more documents will be required.

The Chinese Culture Center, authorized and certified by 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 if you qualify.
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Application Deadlines
Application Deadline: Departure Time for China:
March 15, 2010 2010 Summer or Fall
October 15, 2010 Late February 2011

Training:

We offer training for our teaching candidates in basic Chinese, Chinese educational systems, Chinese culture and customs, and ESL teaching methods in Columbia, 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. If you are not in Columbia, SC, and can not come to the on-site training, there are 2 options for you to obtain a TESL Certificate:

1. You take the online training, and come to Columbia for a 30-minute teaching presentation. When you pass it, you receive a TESL Certificate.

2. You take the training online at your own pace. When you finish your first work contract in China successfully in our teaching in China program (including summer teachers), you'll receive a TESL Certificate.

You can download the training textbook and tapes here.


Program Fee (Free Training funded by grants, Free International Round-Trip Airfare, and Free furnished Housing offered by your host institution):
Covers up to 10-year placements with satisfactory work performances for your host schools, one background check, one Chinese visa fee (if you are in the US and we get the visa for you in the US), 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. Toll free phone numbers are offered to teachers in China to call our office in the U.S. 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.

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: 10-12 Months 5-6 Months Summer Only
Total $998 $998 $950
* If you go with your family: $598 each for children under 18 including their visa fee and visa service fee. Please note that the program fees and related service fees are subject to change at any time without notice.

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 offered you a job, you'll get back the program fee you've paid for the Teaching in China Program, including the summer program (except for factors beyond our control, such as wars, natural disasters, plagues, epidemics, or political issues, etc.) 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 when you applied. In that case, you may keep our TESL training materials and 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. No refund for any early withdrawal from the programs. If you can not go for the registered semester for any reason, at your request, we'll keep your teaching candidacy for two more years within the program. If any wars, natural disasters, plagues, epidemics, political issues or other factors beyond our control delayed or affected the departure of our teachers for China, we would keep the teachers' candidacy for up to 10 years in the program.
 
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 10-12 months contracts (two semesters), your host school will reimburse you for your one-way airfare to go to China (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, we'll reserve your international round-trip flights for you at a group rate, and you'll pay for the flights yourself. When you first arrive in China, we will have someone from the school 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 can place you in another school or even in another city/province without an additional program fee, so that you will have chances to see different parts of China, and experience more varieties of life in China.
Besides the 10-12 months term teaching positions, we also offer summer teaching positions, which are especially good for those who want to visit China or do internships during the summer; and the sponsoring school will arrange some sightseeing and tours free for you just as for the 10-month term teachers.
If you are interested in teaching in China, please register online and email us your resume today!
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
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