Teaching English, China

Volunteer teachers are needed in Chinese to assistant local teachers in class, as English is compulsory for most schools all over China. The age group for the kindergarten are 5 years old and below, and the age group for the primary school is from 6 to 12 years old, and 13 to 15 for the junior high schools and 16 to 18 years old for the senior high school students.

Volunteer will be mainly teaching the conversational English in class by choosing their own topics. They may paint the pictures and cartons, and play sport games, sing the English songs, and study the western culture and tradition and customs and discuss any simple topics on the English study. There will be one Chinese teacher sent to each class to help the volunteer teachers in teaching.

The average class size is about 50 students per class, while many schools have bigger classes with over 60 or even 70 students in each class. In addition to teaching English language, you may also choose to teach science, arts, sports, music in class or outdoors.

Chinese students are trained to be disciplined in the school, and they also show great respect to teachers. They are hard working day and night, and you will find piles of books standing up in every desk of the students in class, and they have very less time for any entertainment items and sports games. This is very different from any western schools. Students spend a lot of time everyday studying English even in their free time such as Saturdays and Sundays. They are very keen and enthusiastic to learn English, and they are friendly and
hospitable to volunteer teachers. Volunteer teachers may visit the students’ families during their free time.

Project Location: Yantai City, Shandong Province, China.
Yantai is one of the major Chinese coastal cities for tourist attractions, historical heritage and relics, boasting of a total population of over 6.4 million with 12 satellite towns and districts under its administration.

Volunteers may also choose to do local hiking and excursions during their free time, and there are many local scenic and relics to visit such as Penglai Pavilion, Nanshan Grand Buddha, and Mou’s Manor, Kunyu Daoist Mountains and Horsing Raising Island and Tashan Park, Yantai Hill Park and Changyu Winery Museum and so on.

Your Role as a Volunteer: Teaching assignment for volunteers are from Monday to Friday, and most of the class takes place in the morning, a few classes may take places in the afternoon. Volunteers are free in the evening time and weekends. The teaching loads vary from school to school. The average teaching hours are about from 2 to 4 hours per day. Teaching hours vary from school to school, and it could be from 12 hours to 20 hours per week depending upon location of the school and number of students and the teaching requirements of each school.

Your Free Time: China is an old and huge country which offers a full variety of nature and culture to the world, and it is one of the best and largest tourist destinations in the world nowadays. Volunteers may visit Great Wall, Forbidden City, Opera House, Terri-cotta clay soldiers, Panda House and lots of museums in North China, and they may also explore the beauty of landscape and mountains and rivers in the South China.

Activities: Teaching English
Working Hours: Flexible 12 - 20 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Who Can Volunteer: Anyone from 18-65 years
Language Required: English

Program Fee Program Fees are in British Pounds

Weeks Program Fee
1          £299
2          £389
3          £479
4          £569
5          £659
6          £749
7          £839
8          £929
9          £1,019
10        £1,109
11        £1,199
12        £1,289
Additional Week = £90
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WHERE THE PROGRAM FEE GOES:

Field Expenses: Food, Room, Donation to Project (42%)
Program Development (23%)
Outreach (14%)
Volunteer Coordination (11%)
Administrative Cost (10%)

What is Included in Fees?

Airport Pick Up: Upon arrival, our in country coordinator and a staff will be at the Airport to pick you up. Please do not forget to send us your flight information as we would be waiting to pick you up. We guarantee, you will never miss us at the airport.

Orientation: Orientation about the local culture, history, safety, project r, and other issues relating to the country

Accommodation: All volunteers will stay in the apartments on school campuses. Each individual volunteer has his or her own private room with bathroom, bed and beddings, bathroom and TV and phone and simple furniture. The room is clean, sanitary and safe with air-conditioner or fan for the summer. All rooms are equipped with the radiator for heating for the winter time. Some rooms have computers with free internet access. The accommodation is more than adequate for volunteers with friendly setting and secure environment on school campus. All volunteers are freely to use the computers with internet access in the school offices. Each school will provide volunteers with the purified mineral water from time to time for drinking. The tapping water in the bathroom can only used for drinking when it is cooked and spoiled in China.

Meal: Volunteers will be provided with three Chinese meals in the school dining halls together with the Chinese teachers and students. They should abide by the dining schedule of each individual school. A variety of food menu are available such as egg, meat, fish, bread, rolls, all kinds of vegetables and soups and so on, It is believed that the Chinese food is the best in the world due to its history and culture of over 5000 years’ development in cuisine and menu. Vegetarian food is also available in the school cafeteria. The schools cafeteria will be closed during the Saturdays and Sundays, and the school will provide volunteers with kind of Chinese snack food such as the bread, milk and noodle and or fruits such as apples and oranges. Please be aware that all Chinese schools do not cook any kind of western food and dishes.

24/7 in Country Support & Supervision: There are field offices and staffs all over our projects sites and our country co-ordinator will also be available to help you when you need it, including a 24-hour support team. Volunteers and Culture Xp is committed to making sure all participating communities and volunteers benefit from the collaboration.

Safety: Your well being while volunteering with us is our priority. We make sure your trip is safe and our in-country coordinator will provide whatever support you may need at any step along the way.

Administrative Charges: Our staff works every day to take care of our volunteers: Emails are answered; phone calls are taken; coordination occurs between projects; and most importantly volunteers are placed within areas of their interest in villages. Even though we try hard to keep these administration costs to a minimum so that your money can be used most effectively.

Arrival & Departure Airport: Yantai airport

What is NOT Included?
Flight, Airport Taxes, Visa Fee, Immunizations, Personal expenses, Soft drinks, Mineral Water, Passport, Travel Insurance, Entrance fees and in-country travel expenses including any excursions the volunteer wishes to take whiles volunteering except our programs that include travelling.