Roger Chrisman's China TEFL Job Search Tips

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    I put these tips together to help us all make the most of the Internet
when searching for new TEFL positions in China. Hope this helps. Please
send comments and suggestions to me, Roger Chrisman .
    If you have serviceable WWW access, definitely search Dave's ESL Cafe
for key word "China", and see also job selection advice at our own
TEFL-China Teahouse Jobs page.
    If you do not have good (fast) web access you might prefer to go
straight to step 4. TESL-L & TESLJB-L below because there you can search
100% by e-mail.

                           CONTENTS
   1. Dave's ESL Cafe Jobs Search http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/
   2. TEFL-China Teahouse
   3. TEFL-China E-mail List
   4. TESL-L & TESLJB-L



~ ~ ~   1. Dave's ESL Cafe Jobs Search http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/
	

The most comprehensive TEFL/TESL positions announcement bulletin board on
the WWW today. Search it with key word "China" or "a-city-of-your-choice"




~ ~ ~   2. TEFL-China Teahouse


Job Selection Advice http://www.yale.edu/yalechin/tea/jobs.html

Job Search Links http://www.yale.edu/yalechin/tea/index.html#links
Here are the most important links:

* Dave's ESL Cafe: Jobs Offered
If you do nothing else, check this--search it for "China" or for
"city-of-your-chice"--
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/wwwboard4/wwwboard.html
Also, easier to remember http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs

* TEFL Professional Network
They sell professional development services but also provide some free
information such as their Jobs List page of about 80 international English
teaching position announcements including a few in China. To receive this
free of charge once a week as e-mail, send a blank message to
. You can also view it on-line at
http://tefl.com/jobs/index.htm

* State Bureau of Foreign Experts
Basically boils down to an e-mail address where you may send your resume if
you are looking for a teaching job in China, .
They ask you to tell them the city you want to teach in. I tried it and
they offered me a job somewhere else :-[. (Their server is spotty) 
http://www.china-access.com/sbfe/sbfe_h.htm

* Appalachians Abroad
An organization that specializes in sending teachers to China. Also, Clark
Egnor provides links to many other such organizations here. Some of these
organizations are very good at preparing you for the unique teaching
environment in China http://www.marshall.edu/gochina/links/

* Academic WWW in China
Academic China links. Find contact info to schools in your city of choice
here http://my-pages.com/china

* Chinese Universities & Institutes
More academic China links http://hong.commerce.ubc.ca/www/shen/univ.html

* China Gray List
(Job warnings; not much here yet though.)
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/2660/china.html




~ ~ ~   3. TEFL-China E-mail List


After you have scoured the web, tell us what you found and ask us
questions. Be specific and post to , with a
subject line that ends in "?" if you are primarily asking something.




~ ~ ~   4. TESL-L & TESLJB-L


TESL-L has a jobs discussion branch, TESLJB-L. The following message, if
sent to  will subscriber you to TESL-L and
TESLJB-L, and get you an index of all TESLJB-L messages containing whatever
words you specify, such as "city-of-your-choice":

	SUB TESL-L yourfirstname yourlastname
	SUB TESLJB-L yourfirstname yourlastname
	SEARCH city-of-your-choice IN TESLJB-L SINCE 97-06-01

(Or search for "China" instead of "city-of-your-choice.") If you are
already subscribed to TESL-L and TESLJB-L, then you don't need the
subscribe commands. Note that you must be subscribed to TESL-L to access
its branches, such as TESLJB-L. The commands can all be sent in one
message, but put them in the above order because Listserv processes them
sequentially. (You can of course also search TESL-L. Just send another
search command and replace TESLJB-L with TESL-L. TESL-L discusses teaching
while TESLJB-L discusses jobs.)

The above search command will return you an index of all the TESLJB-L
messages containing your "search term" since 97-06-01 (use whatever date
you want, YY-MM-DD). It will also include a GETPOST TESLJB-L ##### command
which you can copy-and-past into another message to
 to get all those messages.

If when you are done you wish to receive no mail from TESL-L or TESLJB-L
(together they send about 20 to 30 messages a day) send to
:

	SET TESL-L NOMAIL
	SET TESLJB-L NOMAIL

To turn mail back on you would send:

	SET TESL-L MAIL
	SET TESLJB-L MAIL

You can still search with the lists set to NOMAIL. However, if you wish to
completely unsubscribe from TESL-L, send to  this
command:

	UNSUB TESL-L

(Listserv ignores the subject line. So you may use whatever subject line is
useful for your purposes.)


Good luck! Administration of English language teaching in China is a bit up
in the air right now and will probably stay that way for some time because
of extended authority structures and bureaucratic inefficiencies. Try to
find a boss who is dedicated to you and your goals as an English teacher. 

Please unsubscribe from TEFL-China if you cancelling your e-mail account,
and re-subscribe when you get online again. Orphaned e-mail addresses cause
lots of bounced mail and work for us volunteer list managers :-o ;-)

All *major* cities have Internet Service Providers. Tell us all about your
new job when you find it, and ask us some specific questions on TEFL-China!

All the best,

Roger Chrisman
Comments & suggestions please.. mailto:roger@unet.net.cn

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