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Q: Is it easy for Chinese to find teaching jobs in your home country?
I couldn't really answer one of my Chinese friends who's thinking about doing this. Her preference is for Canada, but I couldn't really help her at all.
Is it generally easy for Chinese nationals to find employment teaching Chinese abroad? In places like Canada or Europe, what type of diplomas/experience do they usually need to get a decent teaching job?
14 years 16 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Speaking for Australia. In order to teach they must undergo Certificate 4 (IV) in training and assessment to become a trainer. This than can be used in training organizations. For schools they will become a teachers aid with the cert but to become a fully pledge teacher they must have a bachelor in education. Guessing Canada would have the same process due to the similarities of the two countries
Shining_brow:
While this is all true, Australia is onl the lookiout for good Chinese teachers - so if you've got the quals, you may have a chance!!!
Whether Aus will accept a Chinese university's BEd is another matter!
Extremely unless they are married to a citizen or immigrated at sometime. These days it's difficult to get past the embassy, even for students. They know, they probably will not go back home. Even if you find a job, you still have to show ties in China that will force you back.
GuilinRaf:
I am not condoning Illegal Immigration, but with so many legal obstacles, I can see why so many people give up and hire a "Coyote"...
In the states, it would be very hard for a Chinese native to get a job at a high school or university teaching Chinese. The requirements of a bachelors/masters degree would be the same as American citizens but they also have actual language certifications to get (I don't know the exact ones and it might vary by state). Also, we have had Chinese people in the States for 200 years. So Chinese people are not "rare" like foreigners are here. So getting Chinese language teachers who grew up bilingual (Chinese in the home, English everywhere else) are not hard to come by.
bat22:
iam not sure why someone would give this post a negative what she said is absolutley correct
Tapwater:
It is worth noting that the educational requirements for teaching in the US are unrealistically high given the salary teachers are paid. It is no surprise that there is a shortage of language and science teachers.
No, there are degrees required, so not everyone can teach. Also more strict with background checks. Which doesn't seem to be a requirement here
jyao87:
But would you feel safe if your child was taught by a rapist or pedo ? Though in saying that, we have a pervert freak teacher at our school and he is always being inappropiate and if it was back home, he could get in trouble for sexual harassment, but no one at work that's it seriously even though students have complained numerous times.
Will be quite difficult for her to teach Chinese in Canada I think. Not many places are teaching Mandarin other than in the bigger cities, and therefore she would have to compete with Chinese Canadians who have experience and who have degrees that they have obtained in Canada. She could probably get other jobs more easily.
To be a teacher in the UK you would need as a minimum a 2.2 degree or higher, (or equivalent GA 3.2 iirc), and a Certificate of Education or PGCE for adult teaching, (similar qualifications but different terms for teaching children). The 2.2 degree is a new requirement this year, but the requirements are less if he / she was willing to be a teaching assistant, in fact in some schools you don't need any qualifications at all to be a teaching assistant.
Of course he / she would also need all the other regular requirements to immigrate to the UK in addtion to these qualifications.
University teachers in America hve a phd and speak several languages fluently. The reason we can get a job with a BA in China is because the Chinese-English teachers are so terrible, not because we are so good. -Case in point, the German (Actually from Canada so bi-lingual) teachers, the Yanks, the Russian, and the Japanese teacher (who spoke 4 languages) were all put at one table together so we wouldn't make the staff feel bad. We spoke and translated happily for each other, and only one Chinese teacher could understand any of us....course most of the teachers are MA's who paid 10,000RMB to get their job. -No decent uni in america wants to hire a Chinese uni grad. My Chinese teachers graduated from Penn, and oddly, Atlanta.
At private schools in America you only need a BA and do not need a certificate. It is competitive and pays a bit less but the classes are smaller and the community is supportive. Your friend would have to be almost fluent in English though and a creative teacher. I went to one that did hire a native Chinese teacher for two years who was an English teacher at Dongbei Daxue in Shenyang. Most north American private schools use recruiting systems like this one: http://www.carneysandoe.com/ that match up teachers and schools.
There are also Chinese schools, language centers and summer camps in US and North America if your friend is interested in that kind thing as well, just look online!
No idea but am sure Chinese language is not that popular around where i live
I had a Chinese professor at my University. It was some filler course I took....International Affairs 101 or something. His name was Fei Ling Wong (so what's that, Wang Fei Ling or something?). If I knew then what I know now about Chinese educational culture, I probably should have cheated my ass of in that class! But no, settled for a B 
