This is a free and comprehensive online guide written by experienced foreign experts for foreign teachers that contains volumes of valid and reliable insider information about living and teaching English in China. It covers more than 47 key topics and what every foreign teacher should know before accepting a job offer. If you are thinking about living and teaching English in China, then you owe it to yourself to read this guide.
Either before or after reviewing the guide, you should take our China English Teacher Self-Assessment test. This 20-item questionnaire will give you an excellent idea about how competitive you will be as an English teacher in China, as well as how easy or difficult your adjustment to life in China will be.
After you've had a chance to read the guide, we ask that you take just a couple of minutes to complete our reader survey so that we can be more responsive to your needs in the future. In addition, if you are or were a foreign teacher in China, we invite you to take our China Foreign Teacher Satisfaction Survey.
For background information about the guide and the author, you can refer to the About Us page.
This guide consists of 47 topics or chapters and each chapter is written to be read independently. The units are organized across three broad temporal categories and each chapter informs the category it is a member of: 1) What you need to know before making your decision (Teaching English in China); 2) What you can expect during your first six months (Initial Adjustment), and; 3) Ongoing Work and Social Issues (Ongoing Issues). Obviously, the three categories and each of their units are interrelated, so crosslinks are provided throughout the guide wherever appropriate for your convenience.
A good place to start is simply to browse the main menu to your left or, for a visual layout of the entire guide, you can take a look at guide’s site map and topic index. If you are primarily interested in obtaining a good idea about how competitive you would be in the English teaching job market, as well as gauging how easy or difficult your psychosocial adjustment to China will be, we encourage you to take our China English Teacher Self-Assessment test. If you are pressed for time and want a brief overview and discussion of the most salient issues you need to be aware of, then the Comprehensive Summary Checklist is an excellent place to start.
For a detailed description of the vocational, sociodemographic and personal aspects of teaching English in China, see the unit on Is Teaching English in China for Me?
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