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Full Time ESL Teacher

Smiles International English

Changsha, China

US 1875 a month

Start November 2018

Contract Length: 12 months

Number of Vacancies: 3

Student Level:

Early Childhood

Eligible Candidates:

ESL Instructor

School Requirements:

Education Required: Bachelor
Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
Required Certificates:
TESL/TEFL Certificate over 100 hours
Certification Requirements: TEFL certification required
Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand

Additional School Requirements:

The usual Z visa-led minimum requirements apply:

Bachelor's degree
Aged 25-57
2 years teaching experience or 120 hour TEFL certificate

If applicants hold a Bachelor's degree in related field such as linguistics or a Master's degree, a TEFL certificate may not be required by the government but we will ask for it anyway because the training process is helpful in setting standards.

We are also looking for the following personal qualities:

Professionalism and a commitment to do a job to the best of our abilities
Effective Class management: Our teachers are expected to manage a class of 6 without feeling overwhelmed
A sense of humour and creativity. The kids and parents will love you for it
Open mindedness – it goes without saying that culture and values in China are different to the west

Applications from parents are particularly welcome. We have found they tend to empathise with customers more easily and have more patience and emotional intelligence.

Job Benefits:

The Salary Package
Teaching hours: 22 per week on average PLUS 8 hours preparation time for a total of 120 hours per month minimum. We guarantee payment for that time even if we don’t have the classes signed up. However but the teacher will be expected to carry out other tasks as requested. These tasks could include helping with marketing activities such as demonstrations, placement tests, Project Based Learning events, preparing teaching materials for courses or painting cartoons on walls.

A teacher’s basic salary starts at 11,000RMB per month + 6000RMB contract completion bonus.

We also provide our teachers with:
•   Accommodation allowance (2000RMB/month)
•   Fully comprehensive healthcare insurance
•   Allowance for return flight to your home country (8000RMB)
• Reimbursement of Z visa costs
•   Two weeks paid leave in addition to two weeks of national holidays
• Additional unpaid leave may be granted on request
•   Experience bonus (for teachers with specialist qualifications or significant, relevant expertise from a previous career)
•   Overtime is likely to be available if the teacher is motivated.

The bonus package will include a happy customer performance bonus based on feedback from parents of the students you teach, and other optional bonuses for marketing activities that support successful business growth. If both parties agree to re-sign for another 12 months, we offer a pay increase as well to reflect the increase in experience.

A couple of times a year we will organise group outings to various locations in and around Changsha.

Job Description:

We're looking for a full time English teacher for our newly opened school in Hexi (north west of the City centre, right next to the Metro supermarket). The campus is 540m2 in size and features 7 classrooms each with smartboards, whiteboards, air conditioning and acoustic dampening, as well as offices and kitchen area.

The Role
Our teachers teach British English to classes of up to 6 in number ranging in age from 3-12 years old. The students range in ability from beginner to intermediate level so new teachers can expect to cover the usual vocab plus grammatical context, reading, writing and phonics as appropriate to the age group. For three year olds, we tend to run unguided play sessions where teachers expose students to English through play activity and elicit verbal responses as the opportunity arises. Our syllabus for older students is based on a mix of internationally reputable courses. The teachers’ guides accompanying these courses have lesson plans already written so our teachers don't start from scratch most of the time. However we expect teachers to adapt their plans to ensure consistently high levels of student engagement. This which brings us onto the most important quality we are looking for.

Teaching quality is very important to the school. Our approach to teaching is ALL about student engagement and making progress. We teach using creativity and playful learning activities. Games, songs, music, movement, interactive smartboards, arts and crafts, even acting like an idiot…you name it, we do it to keep our students focussed and engaged.

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