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Q: As a Nigerian kindergarten teacher, can I get a job offer in China?
I am a Nigerian Early Years teacher presently in Nigeria seeking for teaching job opportunity in China.
My question is ; can I as a Nigerian get job offer in China?
5 weeks 4 days ago in Teaching & Learning - China
First, you should consider the fact that not too many Chinese have seen colored person in flesh ...
At my time in China as an English teacher, I was asked to replace colored teacher from Ghana, because kids were afraid of him.
Chinese teaching assistant told me, many kids had started to cry at his entry to the classroom. Tianjin kindergarten, year 2010.
You can try at FindJobs above, but remember Chinese don't know, what racial discrimination is, i.e. questions about your skin colour are just a regular questions.
At English teaching, Chinese rather go for a 'kids-likable' teacher, more than proper pronunciation and proficiency in English language overall.
Good luck!
icnif77:
2nd: Have a look, who qualifies for a legal English teaching work in China ..., i.e. only native English teachers, UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, New Zealand and S. Africa passport holders and no one else.
https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/guide-teaching-english-china#paragraph-item-63614-target
*English proficiency: Passport from one of seven "native speaker" countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa). If you aren’t a native speaker, you’ll need to be a certified teacher in your home country with proof of your English proficiency (e.g. IELTS or TOEFL).
your_esl_teacher:
Hi, Icnif77. Are you by any chance an agent who could help me find a job in China? I used to work in an International Kindergarten in Foshan, Guangdung province. Now, I work at school here in Edmonton, Canada. I am searching for a job either online or offline somewhere in the south preferably. I am originally from Ukraine, but i have a TEFL certificate, a Bachelor's Degree in Education and recently got a Level 1 Certificate for Early Childhood Educator in Canada. I also have a Chinese tutor and can speak some basic Chinese(Mandarin)
icnif77:
No, I ain't a placement agent or anyhow involved in hiring of ETs. I'm just a long time member of this website, ex-non native English teacher with lengthy working experience in China and elsewhere ...
I can give you an advice on how I was treating 'looking-for-a-job-in-China' matter ....
"Never, ever stop sending your CV to the new job openings ...!".
... not even when you already have an interview or few lined up!
Looking for the new position in China was like a daily part-time job for me.
It just crossed my mind:
I am an E.T., too ...
However, I can't recall planet of my origin ... 
icnif77:
'Add-it':
You don't stand a chance at landing of an English teaching job as a non-English native teacher!
Consider this as a friendly advice, which will save you a lot of wasted time by trying to find a placement as an English teacher.
Now, this advice came from a students' likable teacher, but management of any school or Training mill will not give you a pass, because of your non-English nativity.
You have to step into their shoes ... and imagine, you would run an Ukrainian language Training mill, and I would apply as a non-native teacher of Ukrainian language ... Don't tell us, what you would say ...
I was working over 3-years in Istanbul some 5-years ago, and there you could land a job as a non-native English teacher.
I've worked in Turkey with ETs from Iran, Africa, Russia ...
The thingy there was "ET's popularity among the students ...", because Training mills in Turkey are making monies by students enrollment and if you aren't likable by students, you'll starve.
Getting a job as a non-native English teacher ain't any different than applying for a ride at the Cape Canaveral, FLA.
Good luck!
Although less common. There are still some black teachers working in China
theresia.anne:
they still hire black teachers, but ONLY from native English-speaking countries. as it's one of the work visa requirements.
I am taking a Online University course, one of my classmates in already working at a kindergarten in China. She is Jamaican. At my school in Vietnam I also have a Ugandan colleague. Yes Asia can be very casually racist, but I have seen slow changes as schools adopt 'Global Citizenship' values. Same thing with mental health. They never recognized autistic or disabled students previously, but are starting to make more accomodations in recent years.
icnif77:
I hope, you're aware, any African English teacher, who's land-based working in China is illegal worker by the current Chinese Labour law, i.e. work without Working and Residence permit, with exception of English teachers from S. Africa (see my link above!).
This doesn't have anything to do with the racism!
It's a simply put, 'The-Law-of-the-Land!', which applies the same to the whitiest Dutch, Swedes ... or 'Vladimir-Vladimiro-witch-Putins', i.e. Ruskis ...
Once, Chinese .gov will have a check-up on foreign workers in China (... and that happened every 2-years or so ...), African ETs will all get short (a week, the longest!) Exit-China requirement, i.e. you can enter China with Tourist, L-visa, but you aren't entitled to work and receive payment for that.
Same applies to foreigners in China with student, X-visa.
Good luck, but 'Exit-China requirement!' is not a pleasant experience ...
P.S.
Your listed 'values' do not apply to illegal workers in China, i.e. 'Stop with sugar coating BS, please!'
