Location: #
Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Expected date on board #
February 2026
Qualification #
- Age: from 22 to 40 years old;
- Native English speaker;
- love children, have a friendly appearance, possess a lively personality, communicate well, and have standard and clear English pronunciation.
- A bachelor’s degree or higher is required, preferably in early childhood education or a related field such as English.
- Teachers with at least two years of teaching experience are preferred.
- a TEFL/TESOL certificate for 120 hours;
- Fulfill the requirements to apply for a Chinese authority’s English teacher work permit;
Job description #
a) ESL teacher, in charge of the teaching of several classes.
b) Student age: 3-6 years old
c) Working hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30am-12:00pm, 14:30pm-17:30pm (depends on kindergarten’s schedule)
Duties: #
- Teach different classes based on the kindergarten’s schedule;
- Abide by the school’s work regulation, follow the principal’s arrangement;
- Design lessons, prepare teaching props, and make the teaching plan in advance;
- Organize and have lessons to children on time and finish semester teaching tasks;
- Help decorating the classroom and create English environment and atmosphere;
- Participate in teaching research and organize open classes;
- Manage the class with assistant teachers and have a good cooperation;
- Accept the Children’s English Evaluation at the end of semester;
- Participate in the big events, such as open day, Children’s Day and so on;
Compensation #
- Salary package: 15,000~17,000 RMB/month (before tax), housing allowance included.
- Air ticket & visa documentation fee reimbursement
- Contract renewal bonus
- Medical and Accident Insurance provided
- Hotel expenses reimbursement
- Holidays: 11 days of Chinese public holidays and 1 day of Christmas off.
- Summer or winter holiday: 1 month paid leave (half base salary and full housing allowance) will be included in the summer or winter holiday; detailed arrangements will follow the school’s calendar.
About #
It’s late afternoon on Orange Island, and high school student Zhang Meixi is photographing the 32-metre-high granite statue of a rather bouffant Mao Zedong that gazes south down the Xiang River, which bisects Changsha, capital of Hunan province. Seated a few metres away, oblivious to the scenery and the proximity of the late Great Helmsman’s effigy, her grandfather taps a fusillade on his iPad, occasionally addressing it in a gruff monotone.
‘I wanted to ask him something about the old days, when he was growing up here in the 1960s, but once he starts playing with his tablet,’ shrugs Meixi, who likes to go by the name of Qitty.
Zhang Senior may be silent on the subject of Changsha’s most-voted-most-likely-to-succeed school teacher, but it’s one of the tenets of the city’s folklore: that roughly a century ago, Mao used to swim here and chew the political fat with his coevals while he was working at the Fourth Normal School. However, Changsha, which traces its history back 3,000 years to the Qin dynasty, is currently looking to the future, revving up for its own cultural revolution that’s taking shape all around the city.
The preening Poster Boy for the new Changsha is the US$275 million, russet-coloured Lucky Knot bridge, which opened last September. Rather than a straightforward 185-metre span, it twists and turns its way across the Dragon King Harbour River in Meixi district, granting pedestrians the choice of three different routes and a generous dollop of entertainment en route.
‘Changsha is growing and changing rapidly, and when we embarked on the initial design we wanted a unique gesture to inspire passersby,’ says Michel Schreinemachers, partner at Amsterdam-based Next Architects.
His colleague, Jiang Xiaofei, adds: ‘The Lucky Knot bridge is more than a connection between two river banks – it brings cultures together, it’s a fusion of history, technology, art, innovation, architecture and spectacle.’
