Description:
As a LanguageCorps TeachChina English Teacher, you receive TESOL Certification, a guaranteed paid job, and unique training and services empowering you to thrive as a professional abroad.
Learn and apply new skills while developing a wider perspective about the diversity of cultures and populations around the world all within the security of a guaranteed paid job, a highly organized system, and a supportive community.
Our TeachChina Program provides the perfect introduction to China, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and a growing and important economy today. China has a population over 1.3 billion, a fifth of the world; the country spans nearly 10 million square kilometers stretching from the deserts of Mongolia in the north to the tropical Macau peninsula in the South China Sea, with all of the diversity you could ask for in between.
The TeachChina Program provides a comprehensive blend of training and orientation, guaranteed job placement, and support services to help ensure you have a secure, rewarding English teaching adventure.
Participants in all Asia programs (Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Vietnam) begin their adventure at our training facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, before traveling to their destination country. This allows participants in all 4 programs to:
* Meet participants from other programs extending their LanguageCorps network and making great contacts for future travel or vacations
* Participate in our most popular excursion to Angkor Wat
* Consider the option of switching to a different country for their teaching
* Learn about the options for obtaining an advanced degree and receiving academic credit for LanguageCorps TESOL training
At the conclusion of the joint training in Cambodia, Thailand program participants travel to Thailand for in-country training and practice teaching at our training facility in Pattaya.
Job Placement
Your teaching position will be at one of our affiliated schools located throughout China. Job assignments rely heavily on your individual qualifications and preferences, which we always seek to accommodate, but job placements also require flexibility on your part. China's complex systems of city-specific regulations and work permits can complicate things, but if you are accepted into the TeachChina Program, we will guarantee that we will place you in a teaching position with good pay and benefits. These prescribed options are for your protection, as the consequences of violating local laws can be significant: it is not unheard of for teachers working illegally to be expelled from the country! To ensure that this does not happen, LanguageCorps only places participants at schools that conform to local laws and provide work visas.
TeachChina Program Features:
* Predeparture information and assistance
* Work visa support
* Medical insurance, during training and while teaching
* Traveler's and evacuation insurance
* Airport pick-up in Phnom Penh, city tour, welcome dinner, and orientation
* Intensive TESOL training and certification at our training center at Pannassastra University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
* Tour of Angkor Wat, the 7th Wonder of the Ancient World during your time in Cambodia
* Housing during training in Phnom Penh
* Guaranteed job in China with salary up to 6,200RMB per month (approximately USD 900), or more if you have teaching experience
* Free (other than utilities and phone expenses) shared apartment accommodations during your teaching assignment in China
* Ongoing Chinese lessons
* Continuous teacher training and development
* Contract completion bonus (approximately USD 1,150)
* Flexible time commitments and teaching contracts
Highlights:
All Asia programs (Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Vietnam) feature the same TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Certification course and training methodology. All Thailand programs include initial training at our facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; transportation from Phnom Penh to Thailand; and in-country training at our facility in Pattaya, Thailand.
TESOL Certification Course
LanguageCorps' academic staff has over 30 years of experience in the English language-training field, both in pure academics and in day-to-day teaching in classrooms worldwide. The LanguageCorps TESOL Certification course in Asia relies on this wealth of experience to combine the best and most current academic thinking in the TESOL field with decades of hands-on wisdom from practical teaching in remote areas of the world.
The 140+ hour, four-week course integrates the aspects of real teaching that we have found most important:
- Ninety hours of classroom-based Academic Inputs
- Approximately thirty hours of Language and Cultural Awareness Training
- Up to thirty hours of Teaching Practice and Observation
LanguageCorps' Language and Cultural Awareness program is designed to:
- Give you the local language skills necessary for daily life in Southeast Asia
- Put you in the learner's seat, re-acquainting you with the struggle to acquire a new language
- Let you be part of the learning process
- Provide a major cultural overview and orientation to local customs what's polite and acceptable, how to fit in, the importance of making an effort toward understanding, etc.
LanguageCorps' Teaching Practice program is similarly goal-based:
- You will typically be seeing the same students on a regular basis for 8 to 10 hours each week, so your lessons will be continuous, one building-on and leading-to the next. The students you teach are actually your students, allowing you to plan from class to class based on student progress and need.
- Your teaching assignment will often be a local community resource (hospital, police station, city hall, orphanage, immigration office, etc.) so your teaching time directly benefits the community. By the end of the class, your students will have had approximately thirty hours of English Language classes, free. This may not seem like much, but it is approximately the same number of hours a class in many public schools will get in one academic year.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
The Primary Qualifications for successful LanguageCorps Applicants include:
* Excellent native or native-level English speaking skills
* A valid and current Passport issued in your name. U.S. citizenship is not a strict requirement
* A level of maturity and flexibility to be successful living and teaching abroad.
* A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university is required for some programs.
LanguageCorps Teacher Profile
From our experience, we know that these are key factors that will make your overseas teaching adventure enjoyable and rewarding for you, and valuable for your students!
* You have a genuine interest in living and working in a different country and culture than your own
* You have the flexibility to adapt to new surroundings and new ways of doing things
* You are comfortable being the center of attention and curiosity
* You are a self-reliant, outgoing, charismatic person, who will be able to engage a classroom of eager students, and who enjoys interacting with new people
LanguageCorps teachers see themselves as true "global citizens". They are comfortable with, and excited about genuine intercultural exchange. They embrace opportunities to share their own culture with others, and to immerse themselves into new and different worlds.
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type:
English as a Second Language
Language:
English
Language Used As A Medium of Teaching:
English
Cost in US$: 2, 295
Cost Includes:
- The LanguageCorps TeachChina Program Fee includes all of the above.
- The following are NOT Included:
* Personal expenses
* Airfare to Cambodia and to China
Salary / Pay: Your salary will be up to 6200RMB per month (approximately USD 900) or more if you have classroom teaching experience. You will be given free accommodations in a shared apartment, with your only expense being utilities and phone. Given the low cost of living, you should be able to live very comfortably, and set aside some savings.
Experience Required: no
This Program is open to
American,
Australian,
Canadian,
European
and Kiwi
Participants.
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Participants Travel to China
Independently
Typically Participants Work
Independently
Application Process Involves:
- Phone Interview
- Written Application
Typically The Application Process Time Is 1-2 weeks
Post Services Include:
LanguageCorps's Mission Statement: LanguageCorps' mission is to offer participants a rewarding experience living in, working in, and learning about a new culture; affording them a unique opportunity to learn and apply new skills and challenging them to develop a wider perspective about the diversity of cultures and populations around the world.
Year Founded: 2002