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TEFL Teacher

Smiles International English

Changsha, China

US 1875 - 2200 a month

Start April 2019

Contract Length: 1 Year

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School

Eligible Candidates:

ESL Instructor

School Requirements:

Education Required: Bachelor
Minimum Teaching Experience: 1 year 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 successful applicant must meet criteria for working legally in China:

Bachelor's degree
Aged 25-60 (although we would prefer a maximum age of 57, to allow three years of working potential)
Clear criminal background check
Medical history clear of any serious or contagious health issues (HIV, syphilis, Hep. B, Hep. C, permenant liver damage etc.)
One of the following:
- 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 raising awareness of professional standards.

We are also looking for the following personal qualities:

Professionalism and a commitment to do the job to the best of their ability (while but at the same time not taking themselves too seriously)
Effective Class management: Our teachers are expected to manage a class of 6 without feeling overwhelmed
A sense of humour and creativity. We will expect teachers to inject 2-5 second bursts of spontaneous, playful silliness regularly in every lesson. It can be something as simple as a silly look, mock melodrama, silly hats, silly voices or noises, whatever it takes to get a laugh, without impacting on class management
Open mindedness – it goes without saying that life in China is different to the west. It’s important to have professional values and ethics. But Chinese interpersonal relationships develop in a different way compared to the west. A willingness to accept differences (even if they still seem weird) will be an important part of settling into this role
Good personal organisation: Arriving at work with plenty of time to prepare for classes, communicating any issues or developments in a timely manner, following through with any undertakings to colleagues
Good emotional awareness and self management

Job Benefits:

The foreign teacher salary package is up to 18,500RMB per month in value including the following:

A basic salary of 13,000RMB/month
An accommodation allowance of 1800RMB/month
Fully comprehensive healthcare insurance (value 700RMB/month)
Contract completion bonus of 6000RMB
6000RMB allowance for return flights to your home country
Reimbursement of Z visa and work permit costs
Two weeks paid leave in addition to national holidays
Team building experiences to various locations in and around Changsha
Unpaid leave may be granted on request and overtime may be available

The salary package includes a performance pay component based on the following:

Contract renewal by existing students
End of year customer satisfaction bonus
Referral of successful appointment of a new teacher
Successful demonstration class leading to a new student signing.

If both parties agree to renew for another 12 months, we offer a 5% pay increase as well to reflect the increase in your experience and fit with our organisational culture.

Job Description:

Our school teaches British English to classes of up to 6 in number ranging in age from 4-12 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. Our syllabus for 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 and a lesson plan can usually be supplied. However we expect teachers to adapt the plans provided to ensure consistently high levels of student engagement.

Teaching quality is very important to the school. Our approach to teaching is ALL about student engagement and making progress. We monitor teaching quality closely and teach using creative 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. Parents have told us they enrolled their children and renew their contracts with us specifically because of our teaching approach.

Teaching hours: 25 per week on average PLUS 5 hours non-teaching 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 but the teacher will be expected to carry out other administrative or marketing tasks as requested. These tasks could include marketing activities such as demonstrations, placement tests, event planning, maintenance of the campus, teaching resource production, lesson plan writing and class observations.

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