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Nov 20, 2024

Middle/High School Dance Teacher

Full time Performing Arts

Job Description

Job Summary & Responsibilities

  • Schedule: M-F, 7:30am 4:15pm 
  • No more than 20, 40 min periods per week (extra pay for overtime if necessary)
  • Location: Shanghai, Qingpu district (shuttle from downtown provided)
 

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary commensurate to qualifications and experience
  • 12,600 RMB/month housing allowance
  • 2,600 RMB/month transportation allowance
  • 5% end of 2 year contract completion bonus
  • Paid holidays: Chinese government holidays, 3-4 weeks for spring festival, 1 week for Christmas, 6-7 weeks off in the summer
  • Airport pickup and accommodation upon arrival
  • Legal work visa
  • Medical insurance for employee and spouse
  • 12,000RMB annual flight stipend
  • Tuition benefit for two children
  • 1 year contract
 

Requirements

  • 2+ years classroom teaching experience
  • Professional state teaching license
  • Learn how to get your teaching license whilst working abroad
  • BA degree or above and degree in education preferred
  • Experience with US Common Core Curriculum preferred
  • Age required: 24 - 55
  • Happy, healthy and accepting of Chinese culture
  • Ideal candidate must be a serious, career oriented teacher with stable personal life. Bring a willingness to combine their western expertise with Chinese culture to present the best of both worlds for the students.
 
 

Summary

 
We are proud to partner with this well established school of over 1,200 students grades 1 to 11 in Shanghai. China. The school is proud to be accredited and recognized as a school of distinction through Cognia (previously AdvancedEd). The location is about an hour from downtown but a shuttle is provided to make transportation easy. If you prefer to live closer to work there are housing options nearby as well. The staff at the school describe a great sense of togetherness and collaborative environment between foreign and local staff. The students are caring citizens and global thinkers, and the school really goes out of its way to provide a unique and engaging learning environment by doing things like bring in special guests for school events. Although the compensation and benefits are on par with a true international school, this is a school of Chinese students and therefore an appreciation of Chinese culture is expected.

Start Date

Aug 01, 2025

Various start dates through the year?

No

Is government issued teaching license required?

Yes

Is school provided for dependents?

Yes

Salary

Competitive salary commensurate to qualifications and experience. 12,600 RMB/month housing allowance + other benefits

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Soong Ching Ling School
Soong Ching Ling School

Soong Ching Ling School (SCLS), founded in 2008, comprises primary, middle and high schools. The school currently has 1,500 students in both Domestic and International Divisions. SCLS is located in Zhaoxiang, Qingpu district, covering an area of nearly 100，000 (㎡). With a greening rate of 60 percent, the school is renowned for its graceful environment. 

SCLS has state-of-the-art facilities, including a world-class library with a collection of books in Chinese and foreign languages, the Soong Ching Ling Theatre, the Technology and Art Building, the volleyball, basketball and table tennis hall, a gymnastics room, a swimming pool with constant temperature, and twenty indoor classrooms (used for art, drama, chorus, dance, piano, pottery, instrumental music, etc.). In addition, outdoor athletic fields, tennis courts, football and basketball fields are provided for students, which fully meet the needs of students for individualized learning and all-round development.

Soong Ching Ling School was founded in 2008 by the China Welfare Institute, funded and established by the Chinese Honorary President, Madame Soong Ching Ling, named after Madame Soong Ching Ling, the school is a model educational institution which integrates teaching, research and training. 

Inheriting the philosophy of “To Give Children the Most Valuable Things”from Madame Soong Ching Ling, SCLS has fully integrated the educational resources of China Welfare Institute for more than 80 years. The school is committed to creating a loving environment and enabling every student to learn and grow.

SCLS comprises primary, middle and high schools. Since its establishment, SCLS has adopted excellent traditional Chinese culture as its foundation, and has as well absorbed the best practice educational ideas from the West. The school has created rich, balanced and challenging courses which promote international perspectives and global competitiveness.

The school cooperates with world-renowned universities such as UCLA, a top public university in the United States, to provide teachers with communication and learning opportunities from the forefront of international education. The perfect training system will also bring teachers broad space for personal development. Soong Ching Ling School is now recruiting talented teachers from home and abroad to create a new brilliant history.