Very Good Pay {6,000RMB/mth} University Conditions, Short Contract.

Native speakers only please.

SUMMARY: This is an excellent opportunity for somebody who would like to “test the waters” teaching spoken English to small classes in one of China’s most beautiful cities, Dalian, at its most beautiful university, DLU.

Class sizes are guaranteed to be less than 25 (probably 15 to 20) and you are encouraged to use the teaching techniques that YOU find most effective.

The contract is for 4 months from the 30th of August to the 29th of December 2004. The gross pay is 24,000 RMB – no tax – plus sole use of a very nice apartment very close by (a bus stops right beside the apartment and is just three stops to the front gate of the uni) with a generous utilities allowance and basic medical insurance. You can connect to the internet from the apartment or use the internet café in the college. There is NO guarantee of immediate further employment at the college after the 4 months but most of the best teaching jobs are not advertised and you would have a chance to get one of those if you found that you liked teaching English in China.

Also outside teaching at another university nearby is allowed and they want part time teachers desperately and pay well.

GENERAL DETAILS: Private school English teachers in China are usually paid more but have to endure more grueling conditions than those working for a University. Typically they have to work nights and weekends, accept frequent schedule changes, respond to ill-informed criticism from parents and students, forego paid holidays and often struggle with managers to be paid according to their contract terms or even to be paid at all.

The trade off is usually a higher monthly pay scale – on paper at least.

Here is an opportunity to have the security, conditions and stability of a university teaching post with a pay scale better than most private schools. Plus it is permitted for you to earn good extra money teaching extra classes at Dalian Da Wai University’s nearby Kai Fa Qu campus.

The International College of Dalian University is starting a new program in which students will do the first two years of their degree in China then complete it abroad. The students will receive intensive English training to properly prepare them to study and participate in campus life at an English speaking university.

We are seeking a suitably motivated and qualified native English speaker to join the teaching team to teach the spoken English component of the course. You must have an Australian, British, Canadian, New Zealand or U.S. accent.

Should you be a successful applicant, you will give twenty-four lessons, each of forty-five minutes, and conduct one two-hour English salon per week. This gives a total student contact time of twenty hours a week. The schedule is in blocks and is not altered during each full semester.

You will have considerable freedom to choose your own teaching style but we request that an emphasis be placed on student participation. Class sizes will be kept small (maximum 25, probably closer to 18) to allow for personal interaction. This allows you too much more effective and satisfied than trying to teach conversation to classes of 40 to 65 which are common in China.

The pay is 6,000 RMB per calendar month for a 4 mth contract that starts on the 30th of August 2004 and finishes on the 29th of December 2004. Pay is monthly on or before the last day of each month.

You’ll also be provided with a free, comfortable, self-contained western style apartment three bus stops from the campus. Meals are not provided free, but restaurants are inexpensive and you can also cook for yourself if you wish. The accommodation is very good by Chinese standards, clean and functional. Heating is provided free in winter. You get utilities paid up to 150 RMB per month. Go over this generous amount, and you pay the excess.

You will have opportunities to travel as every weekend is free and also there is a full week’s paid holiday in October.

We are looking for a person who wants to rise to the challenge of being as good a teacher as they can. You must be a native speaker with a British, North American or Australasian accent. You must have either a bachelor degree (preferably in a language field) or equivalent or an EFL/ESL qualification or second language teaching experience.

We can provide documentation for you to get a valid working visa.

Send me an email telling me about yourself and why you think you might like the position and we’ll take it from there. If you can, please attach a jpeg photo (less than 400kb please) of yourself, so I know who I’m talking to, and phone number(s) with good times to call.

I’ll get back to you promptly.

Best wishes,

John Haigh.

Email: johnhaigh@163.com
The college website is www.dlu.edu.cn but it may take a few attempts to connect and there isn’t any info on the new project yet.