QMCC Recruitment Blog

If you want to learn Chinese, visit a “young” city of 200 years old, experience a variety of classes then look no further than Changchun.

We have 7 positions available in this lovely city. Check out the details and let me know if you are interested:

School type: Franchise Institution
Monthly Salary: 8000RMB. This figure may vary depending on experience and qualifications.
Weekly teaching hours: 20
Contract term: 12 months
Housing provided: Private
Teaching experience required: 1 year(s)
Minimum qualifications: Degree plus CELTA/DELTA/TESOL/TEYL
Job description:
We are looking for English native speakers ONLY from USA, UK, NZ, Ireland, Australia.
Student age: 6-adult
Salary: 6000-8000 depends on experience as well as qualifications
Holiday: 22 pay holiday
Flight ticket: 9000rmb for one year contract
Housing: single apartment

We have 7 positions available. Teachers should be able to START IMMEDIATELY OR ASAP

contact Sally - email: sally@qmccr.com or 13884631059

Business class activity

I adapted an exercise from Market Leader 1 Unit 2 – Work and leisure:

Vocabulary 1: Days, months, dates: E

1. Print and cut up each of the questions and answers so that the S’s have to put each of the questions and answers into the correct word order.

2. Each S should have 3 questions and 3 answers.

3. Once the s’s have completed this task put them into pairs and they are to ask and answer these questions using the examples given.

4. Once they have done this they are then to ask 3 or more extra questions.

5. Using the concept of the “2 minute date” get one s in each pair to move to another chair after 2/3 minutes and begin a new conversation with a new partner.

6. The teacher has an option to get involved in the activity or to roam and observe.

7. I chose to get involved as I had uneven number of S’s in my class and this helped me talk to some of the weaker S’s 1:1 to do a continued assessment of their progress.

This activity suited my class quite well as it is a mixed level class.

The only difficulty is the cutting up of all the questions and answers. Obviously this will need to be adapted if you have a lot of s’s in your class (board the questions and answers, just use the book, or a gap fill question answer sheet)

My S’s enjoyed this activity. It was a good confidence boost.

I have taken my time to write about this  - why we teach. I have done some research as to what other people have been writing about this topic and I have come to the conclusion that each of us have our own reasons. These reasons do effect the way we teach and how we approach our job.

My dad was very much old school when he taught my sister and I the value of things in life. I suppose he came from a time when they had not invented the saying “work hard play hard” but dad used to say that we needed to be committed to something and then give it everything we have. I started this job as a short term job. In and out in a year get back to the “real life” I have now done this for four years and really do not see myself leaving China anytime soon.

I am committed to giving my students the best lessons I can possibly put together. I know that I will never make the perfect lesson (personally I think it is a myth) but I can always strive to meet the aims of my lesson.

I am committed to improving my technique as well as my delivery as I believe that I am not the finished article, so to speak, because I do not know everything in this business. The minute I believe I am the finished article then I need to get out of the industry.

I am committed to having fun in class. This applies to business, general English classes and childrens classes. No matter what our age we want a little fun (shi bu shi?)

I am committed to being as professional as I can be toward my employer, students, colleagues and to myself.

So: Why do you teach? Leave your comments. I will be very interested to hear what you have to say….or you could leave it on my facebook page - check group - qmcc recruitment

Activity 1

Good for any level as you can make it as complicated or as simple as you like.

1 Ask students to come up with 10 questions to ask you.

2 When you answer the questions add a lot more detail than simple yes or no.

3 Now using your answers test how well the students listened by making some comprehension questions.

This really worked out well and was fun!!

Activity 2

Ok, this one is simple, but it results in tons of laughter. (I used it for the beginning of a conversation class with students who already knew each other. Ages 13-17)

Basically, the teacher picks someone to be “it.” The main goal of “It” is not to laugh or smile. Then the students in the class ask “It” questions, but “It” can only respond with the word “bananas.” (They shouldn’t be yes/no questions!!)

For example: “What is your girlfriend’s name?” Answer: BANANAS!
“What is your favorite sport?” –Bananas

City: Qingdao 

About QMCC Recruitment

QMCC has been formed as part of a desire to approach English teacher recruiting from a different angle than most companies. The company is a partnership in many ways. A partnership of cultures, experience, ideas, friendship and a professional attitude to locating the right school for the right English teacher and the right English teacher for the right school.

There seems to be so many of us in the country. There are good ones and there are bad ones. To catagorise this simply is just not good enough and possibly too much of a generalisation. So the question is asked: what makes a good TEFL/TESOL teacher? What makes you different from those whose motives for doing this job is less than honorable? There are exceptions to every rule but my rule is that if you, as a teacher, pride yourself in doing a good job for any specified period of time (6 months or shorter or 12 months or longer) and with a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and a list of other qualities which are debatable at any given time, then I would classify you as a good teacher.

I have been in China for 4 years. And to some I would be, and possibly am, regarded as a baby in this industry - quite rightly so but like so many people, I have seen teachers being screwed by schools (myself included) and schools being screwed by teachers. There are no guarantees when we look for a job. We ask all the suggested questions and will do all the required and suggested internet research but at some point one of us is going to get screwed.

I have worked as a DOS and have had the joy of hiring some wonderful teachers. This in itself is no guarantee that the teacher will stay or will be honest enough to honor his/her contract. Reasons for leaving range from bad accomodation, the school not fulfilling its contractual obligations to , maybe, the treacher not researching, as encouraged to do, and finding out that the city is just not up to fulfilling their social needs.

So, I am sticking my neck out and trying something different. I am trying to recruit people that I would want if I were in charge of my own school. I am not sure where this chapter in my career will take me but I am sure that I will be on the steepest learning curve possible in understanding human nature in general as well as the phsychi of a tefl teacher.

Let me introduce myself. I am a TEFL teacher/ Corporate language Trainer and I would like to find you a job in China.

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