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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?
2 weeks 1 day 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 overall in English language.
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).
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!'
