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The Benefits of Being a BETTER FASTER Online Teacher
Online Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. NOW WANTED
Benefit 1. All lessons are mapped out for you. A video, or alternative, forms the basis of groups of 3 half-hour sessions. You're testing the students 'take-up' as much as actually teaching.
Benefit 2. This is not your usual online teaching appointment. Here you are required to be able to spell out any word phonetically using the new Anglish phonetic characters. Sounds hard? It's not.
See more here. In return for this ability you are paid much higher than is considered normal.
Conversational English, from £20 (US $26) to £30 (US $39) per hour.
Business English, from £13 (US $16.90) to £36 (US $46.80) per hour.
Benefit 3. The remuneration shown is often exceeded by government departments or large corporations in exchange for completion of specific projects. Example 3 months to get a group pilots able to converse in an aviation setting.
WE FIND TEACHING JOBS
FOR NON-NATIVE YET FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS
AS WELL AS FOR NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS
Benefit 4. You are interviewed once only for any number of contracts or appointments. Each company or institute accepts your qualifications as a registered and qualified BETTER FASTER Online Teacher.
Benefit 5. You apply for a new job, from a vacancy board, when your existing contract is coming to a close. In this way you remain in constant employment. See sample of vacancy board.
Benefit 6. Depending on your teaching times and days of your first contract, you can accept to attend at more online sessions for a second contract. These can overlap only when teaching times and days do not clash. Contracts may be in different countries with different time zones to your own local time.
Benefit 7. Where you live is not an issue. Some online teachers actually travel between contracts and have a new contract waiting to start when they arrive at a new destination.
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Comments Received From Existing Better Faster OTs
Online Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. NOW WANTED
Benefit 1. All lessons are mapped out for you. A video, or alternative, forms the basis of groups of 3 half-hour sessions. You're testing the students 'take-up' as much as actually teaching.
Benefit 2. This is not your usual online teaching appointment. Here you are required to be able to spell out any word phonetically using the new Anglish phonetic characters. Sounds hard? It's not.
See more here. In return for this ability you are paid much higher than is considered normal.
Conversational English, from £20 (US $26) to £30 (US $39) per hour.
Business English, from £13 (US $16.90) to £36 (US $46.80) per hour.
Benefit 3. The remuneration shown is often exceeded by government departments or large corporations in exchange for completion of specific projects. Example 3 months to get a group pilots able to converse in an aviation setting.
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Do you positively have to have all of the listed requirements to apply for a 13,000 RMB to 23,000 RMB position in China? The answer is, 'NO!" you don't and deep down you know it, we know it, the school knows it too.
If you're from a non-English speaking country and applying to work in China as an English teacher, don't put your nationality on your resume.
MMA is working as a procurements agency for a whole bunch of schools and other bodies in China, many along what's known as the 'Coastal Corridor.' These are largely 2nd tier cities on the coast between Shanghai and Hong Kong and are among the most attractive cities there are. Of course some of crammed full of industry too and without that - there'd not be such a soaring demand for English teachers.
Let MMA worry about the applications, you concentrate on making a good job of the speaking interview when you're called on to do that. It's not so daunting just 10 minutes at most via Skype or something similar and we'll prep you on that anyway.
There are 4 different situations that exist when NON-NATIVES are applying for a legal visa to work in China.
WE CAN HELP YOU WITH ALL 4 SITUATIONS
Situation #1
YOU HAVE A DEGREE (BA, MA ETC.) from a native English country.
Example: You are from the Philippines (or any other 'non-native' country) and have a degree from the USA (or any other qualifying country; UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia).
Situation #2
YOU HAVE A DEGREE IN EDUCATION.
Example: You've a degree in Primary Education, Secondary Education, Early Childhood Education Degrees, or Educational Leadership Degrees. or similar.
Situation #3
YOU HAVE A DEGREE RELATED TO ART, SPORTS OR SCIENCE . . . and you speak fluent English.
SEE NEXT BOX
We'll Lead You, and Get You Past the Gatekeepers!
AN APPLICATION FOR NON-NATIVE YET
FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS IS AT PAGE BOTTOM
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MMA Places Non-Native Teachers, in Lucrative Jobs in China!
FROM PREVIOUS BOX
You have a degree related to art, sports or science. (BSc.) AND you speak fluent English.
You can get a work permit as a subjects teacher. You will teach your specific subject (art, sports, science or whatever it is) and English, at the same time.
Example; you have a degree in fine arts. You can easily get a job as a fine arts teacher - in your school you will teach art and English at the same time.
Situation #4
Your school has a close relationship with the local government. You will not be able to find anything at all about this particular situation on the Internet. (ESSENTIAL: You can speak fluent everyday English).
This relationship between the school and the local government has been developed over time. With such a relationship the school can easily get visas for their teachers. They've done it before and they'll do it again and again.
DO NOT be concerned if the school tells you they can get a work permit for you, even though you are a non-native English speaker. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of non-English teachers enjoying the good life all over China. The school will use their local 'power' or connections to get the work permits they want and this situation can be relayed on.
There are certain requirements to obtain a visa to work in China.
Remember the school doesn't care much about those regulations but it DOES CARE that you can speak fluent English. When you have an online interview with your school, you will speak to someone who 'believes' he or she can communicate well; oftentimes they can't.
You'll be asked three things;
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Where are you now?
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What visa are you holding, if any?
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What salary do you want?
You will answer exactly how we explain to you. And you will get the job offer - and we will get your legal visa for you.
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To simplify these issues, let’s define economic corruption as the use of public office for personal gain.
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Thus illegal acts solely between private individuals may be bad but they are not examples of corruption.
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Corruption, under this definition, is clearly more pervasive when the state plays a major role in the economy via ownership or control of resources.
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These same resources are needed to facilitate profitable activities.
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This is the case in China.Despite a steady increase in the role of the private sector in China, corruption has been increasing.
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Any TEFL certificate hugely helps in all 4 situations and can be the decider.
MMA Places Non-Native Teachers, in Lucrative Jobs in China!
In these following situations, you can get a work permit as a teacher in China as a non-English native speaker.
ANY KIND OF TEFL CERTIFICATE HUGELY IMPROVES CANDIDATURE
TeachEnglish.Live is a Swiss organization, now based in Shanghai with Chinese supervisors and staff. We have many local government contacts we use to assist our highly skilled and fluent NON-NATIVE English teachers, in finding the best openings and opportunities we can.
When you browse on Baidu or WeChat looking for job listings, you come across a huge amount of English Teaching positions in China (more than 100,000 just now). You will see the phrase "native-speaker" listed as a requirement on most of the these listings. If you're a non-native English-speaker, how can you overcome this seemingly insurmountable obstacle?
The Truth is, it's not too difficult
Before explaining; can we ask, how good is your English? Are you able to tell the difference between, say, 'their' and 'they're'? Or, 'your' and 'you're'? Are you comfortable asking for the 'bathroom,' and not the 'toilets'? Can you easily pronounce 'squirrel' or 'sixth' or 'those thistles' and not get tongue-twisted? If you can then you're fluent.
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The Basic Contributing Requirements
As of 2019, there are 3 SAFEA primary requirements;
and 3 MMA common requirements to teach in China:
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A Bachelor’s Degree [SAFEA]
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Two Years Work Experience [SAFEA]
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Native English Speaker [SAFEA]
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Any kind of TEFL Certificate [MMA]
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Two Years Teaching/Instruction Experience [MMA]
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Registered & Completed Export & Business Workshop Training [MMA]
Please note that these are what SAFEA recommends, and there is no reason to be alarmed if you don’t meet one of them. Also, meeting these requirements does not ensure you will be able to get your dream job right off the bat, different employers are free to impose their own requirements (outlined above) and it’s not uncommon for the best jobs to be just as strict as those back home.
Second tier and third tier cities are much less strict and this is where MMA primarily operates.
