2 English teachers needed at Jiangsu Foreign Languages Academy

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Jiangsu Foreign Languages Academy
(Working in Suzhou/Wuxi/Kunshan)

Posted By: Karl Landry <TeachinChina@qq.com>
Date: 20th Aug, 2009, at 2:41 a.m.

Hello,Do you need a new job in Jiangsu Province in Sep? Welcome to teach in Suzhou/Wuxi/Kunshan Foreign Languages Academy.

Salary is negotiated. 5,000-7,500/month depending on how many hours a week(16-24 hours a week). to teach 3 - 18 years old students. You can choose to teach 3-10 years old kids or 12-18 teenangers.

Kindergarten teachers needed: 4 positions
Elementary School teachers needed: 4 positions for Teaching English
Middle school/High school teachers: 2 positions
Teaching arts to international student: 2 positions
IB teachers needed in High school department: Math, Chemstry, Physics and Business English, 5 positions
A round ticket or 8,000rmb for ticket allowane, nice free and private apartment...and free other good benefits....

I am sending the contract to you as soon as I get your application letter.
If you or your friends like to teach in Nanjing, Suzhou or WUxi, Please contact me in advance.I really need 4-5 new foreign teachers in Sep.
If you have a job and can't come, Please introduce some of your friends to come to

Teaching places: in Suzhou/Wuxi/Kunshan of Jiangsu Province

Contact email: TeachinChina@qq.com

A Brief Introduction of Jiangsu Foreign Languages Academy

Jiangsu Foreign Languages Academy was approved by the Jiangsu Province Education Bureau and established by Dr. Steve Liang in 1995. Dr. Liang is a famous American/Chinese scholar and the Honorary President of the board of directors of Schiller International University. Jiangsu Foreign Languages Academy is the first private Currently there are more than 3000 students, including nearly 100 students from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas. There are more than 800 staff. It has 3 branches in Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi. Suzhou and Wuxi campus are both located on the Yangcheng Lake in the northern part of Suzhou. The campus covers an area of 20 hectares, and the buildings are more than 160,000 square meters. Nanjing Camapus is located in the pretty landscape,Xianlin School Town.

The school has an excellent group of teachers from all over the country. Among them there are a lot of qualified teachers with special classification, teachers with advanced training , specialist computer teachers, about 100 Chinese-English teachers ,and more than 20 foreign teachers who teach oral English.

The aim of the school is to educate “ future citizens” who will meet the needs of social development, and follows the idea of modern education, namely that “Everything for the children enhances the children's overall qualities.” The school takes quality education as an orientation of school values, lays emphasis on the demands of social development and the students own advancement. The school aims for enhancing individual comprehensive traits and bringing the students personalities into full play. It also attaches paramount importance to the strategic decision of “raising quality, intensifying salient features, and standardizing management.” Face to face teaching in small-classrooms lets the students enjoy the best teaching service.

During their education, English and computer are the feature subjects. The school offers bilingual teaching (in English) from kindergarten. For English classes, mother-tongue situational teaching methodology is implemented. Students are divided into different small classes according to their ability and levels. The school attaches great importance to the development of the use of English, listening and speaking first, reading and writing second. The school possesses the first Gigabit Ethernet facility in the world. The facility is connected to the Suzhou Education City net and was upgraded in 2002 to 10M ADSL broad band. About 1000 students, from kindergarten to Grade 12, in computer classes have individual computers, and are given extensive training in computer technology. Students have received honors and awards in psychology, arts and crafts, science and technology.

Since its establishment eight years ago, the school has achieved many honors, such as, the “Society Generally Recognized Successful Education Unit”, the “State Advanced Art Education Collective”, and “Voted best school by Shanghai children”. It has also been named by the Jiangsu Psychology Institute as a “Psychology Education Experimental School”. The school was one of the first “Computerized Experimental Schools” in Suzhou, and was named by Jiangsu Province as the training and activity base for information relating to the Olympic competition. The school has been successful in several Olympic competitions, and subject competitions, for example mathematics, computer, English and Chinese. The school is proud to have fostered many students of good character and scholastic achievement. Zhang Xin-xin was the best girl contestant in Jiangsu Province Information Olympics Competition; and Feng Biao won the first prize during the English oratorical contest in Suzhou. The school has provided many of the best successful candidates in the entrance exam to senior middle school for six years. A large batch of excellent senior middle school graduates have gone to many famous universities such as Beijing University, Shanghai University of Communication, Tongji University, Jinan University etc. In 2002, the school made a new breakthrough, three senior middle school graduates Ni Di, Ji Zefei and Zhou Yunhao won prizes in the State Computer Competition. Three of the twenty-seven prize winners were from the school. These three graduates were recommended for admission to three key universities without being required to take the entrance examination. That event initiated a new prospect for private schools.

In summary, the school has a beautiful environment, advanced facilities, leading ideas, and a distinctive philosophy. The school is well received by the local community, has attracted wide attention and became a famous private school both in China and overseas.

Welcome to Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu Province lies in the lower reaches of the Yangtze and Huai rivers and on the shore of the Yellow Sea. The mighty Yangtze River runs east and west across it, while the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal flows through it from north to south. Jiangsu Province is one of the developed regions in china with a burgeoning market economy. Transportation is convenient, and there is a complete array of tourist facilities. Crisscrossed by rivers and studded with lakes, Jiangsu abounds in natural resources and is known as a 'land of fish and rice'. Jiangsu has more famous historical and cultural cities than any other province in China-there are seven of them, Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Zhenjing, Changshu, Xuzhou and Huai'an. The part of Jiangsu south of the Yangtze River is a famed water-bound region, where there are many river-skirted villages, such as Zhouzhuang and Tongli, and a galaxy of classical Chinese gardens, including those in Suzhou, which have been designated as world cultural heritages. With places of historical and cultural interest scattered all over the province, Jiangsu is one of the provinces with a mature tourist industry.

SCENES & SIGHTS

Nanjing

Known as Jinling in old days, Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu. Strategically situated on the Yangtze, with a moist climate, its terrain rendered majesty by the mountains in the background, it is also the province's political, economic, cultural and transportation center. Nanjing today looks at once new and old-new due to the ongoing modernization drive, and old because it is already 2,460 years old, and, as one of the nation's seven ancient capitals, it was the capital city for 10 feudal dynasties or regimes.

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

The mausoleum for Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), forerunner of Chinese democratic revolution, was built during the 1926-1929 period. The entire layout, covering 80,000 square meters, takes the shape of a giant bell.

Qinhuai River Scenic Belt

The Qinhuai River is a trunk waterway as well as a famed scenic belt in Nanjing clustered as it is on both banks with a host of places of historical and cultural interest. One of them is the Confucian Temple, where the great thinker is worshipped. The temple mingles congruously with the Ming and Qing buildings around it, turning the place into a renowned tourist, cultural and commercial street. Night cruise on the river and visiting the night fair at the Confucian Temple are unique tourist programs available for visitors to Nanjing.

Linggu Temple

A famous Buddhist establishment, the Linggu Temple 2km east of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is known for its 22-metre-high Wuliang (Beamless) Hall, constructed without a single inch of wood, pillar or beam.

Ming Great Wall

This section of the Great Wall is the best preserved and longest of all city sections of this mammoth de fence work.

Xuanwu & Mochou Lakes

Both Xuanwu Lake and Mochou Lake are well-known parks in Nanjing. Aside from gracious scenery, each has a rich historical legacy to show its visitors.

Suzhou

Suzhou, located in the Taihu Lake Basin, which is the most prosperous part of the Yangtze River Delta, and 199km east of Shanghai, is a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,500 years. Rising simultaneously with the city itself were a Venice-like layout with tiny bridges sitting gracefully on rivulets and streams, which ran parallel with the streets. Suzhou is celebrated for its many classical gardens, and the UNESCO has endorsed some of them as world cultural heritage sites. The suburbs of Suzhou are studded with ancient waterfront towns-Zhouzhuang, Tongli and Luzhi are three of the most prestigious ones.

Suzhou Gardens

Beginning from the Song, construction of private landscape gardens and courtyard houses came in vogue among local scholar-gentry, so much so that for a time the city had as many as 270 such gardens. Aloofness from the den and traffic of the outside world was what was on the minds of owners of these gardens, in which limited space was cunningly arranged to engender scenic spots that allowed owners to have nature all to himself without stepping out of the city. In 1997, the UNESCO put Humble Administrator's Garden, the Garden to Linger In, Fishing-Net Master's Garden, and Circular-Grace Mountain Villa on its world cultural heritage site list. Humble Administrator's Garden and Fishing-Net Master's Garden are open at night so that visitors can attend theatrical performances and enjoy the night scenery.

Tiger Hill Park

Huqiu (Tiger Hill) Park is billed as "No.1 Scenic Place in the State of Wu". Legend has it that this was where the remains of the King of Wu of the Spring and Autumn Period were buried. A pagoda was built on the hill in 961, which had begun to slant until its top deviated 2.34 meters from its axial line. Every year the park is the venue of a flower show and temple fair with a distinct local style.

Cold Mountain Temple

Built in 502, Hanshan (Cold Mountain) Temple earned its fame from a line composed by the Tang poet Zhang Ji: "Beyond the Suzhou walls the Temple of Cold Mountain tolled its bell, which broke the midnight still and signaled the arrival of a guest's boat." On New Year's Eve, visitors flock to the temple to hear the tolling of the bell by the temple's abbot, and attend a night of carnival celebrations.

Suzhou embroidery Institute

Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in the Circular-Grace Garden is staffed with a team of top-notch embroidery masters in the tradition of one of China's four eminent schools of embroidery.

Panmen City Gate

Panmen is the oldest city gate in existence in Suzhou and the only one on a river-the oldest section of the Grand anal dug 2,500 years ago. Nearby stands Ruiguang (Auspicious Light) Pagoda, which has a history of 1,000 years. The city gate and the pagoda together form the most distinctive section of the wall of the ancient city of Suzhou.

Zhouzhuang, an Ancient Town

Thirty km from downtown Suzhou sits Zhouzhuang, extolled as No.1 water-bound town of China for its labyrinth of waterways, Ming and Qing dwellings, and honest-to-goodness folkways. Boat racing, lantern shows and old granny's tea are part and parcel of local tradition. The folklore of this water bound town is celebrated at an international tourist festival, which takes place on April 12.

Tongli, another Ancient Town

Fifteen rivers, 6 km in total length, carve Tongli, a town 20 km from Suzhou, into 7 sections linked by 49 ancient bridges. Tongli is also a veritable museum of Ming and Qing architecture, and the venue of the famous Tuisi (Introspection) Garden, a classical garden in the style of the lower Yangtze River reaches. The annual "Spring of Tongli" tourist cultural festival takes place in town on April 18.

Wuxi

The Grand Canal runs across Wuxi, a city in south Jiangsu Procvince bordered by Lake Taihu to the south and Suzhou to the east, and 128 km from Shanghai. Wuxi is also a major industrial city south of the Yangtze, a "land of fish and rice", and a famous tourist city. The 2,000-square-km Lake Taihu, one of the five major freshwater lakes in China, spans both Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces. As its surface gradually encroaches upon downtown Wuxi, the lake becomes as photogenic as a "natural painting". All manner of pleasure boats bring visitors on tours of discovery to such sights as Triple Isles and Turtle-Head Islet, which is actually a peninsular with the best view of the lake.
Wuxi is also known for its classical gardens, and most popular of these are Jichangyuan in Xihui Park and Liyuan by Lake Taihu. Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong had visited Jichangyuan repeatedly and heaped praises on it in calligraphic inscriptions. Liyuan Garden, situated on the northern shore of the Lihu Lake (an arm of Lake Taihu) in southwest Wuxi, stands out for its gracious mountains and glistening water surface. New, high-class tourist attractions include Wu Culture Park and Space City. Taihu Film and Television City, a location center for China central Television, consists of a series of gigantic scenic zones such as City of Three Warring States, Tand City, Water Margin City, and European City. Half way up the Lesser Lingshan Mountain in Mashan District stands an 88-metre bronze statue of Sakyamuni, consecrated in 1997 as the largest likeness of the Buddha in China. There is no lack of scenes and sights to see in the three cities under the jurisdiction of Wuxi--Jiangyin, Yixing and Xishan. Jiangyin is known for its Yangtze River Bridge Scenic Zone and Huaxi, a village with a from rags-to-riches story. Yixing, where the famous purple pottery ware are made, is the world-famous Capital of Chinese pottery industry.

Zhenjiang

The Yangtze River crosses the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal at Zhenjiang, a central Jiangsu city known for its rich cultural legacy and picturesque landscape. Major attractions: Jinshan Hill, Beigushan Hill, and Song-and-Yuan Ancient Street. The Jinshan Monastery, dating back to the East Jin, is a famed ancient temple in China. Longchang Temple, built more than 1,500 years ago in Baohuashan Scenic Zone, is a famous Taoist domain.

Yangzhou

The central Jiangsu city of Yangzhou, situated at the juncture of the angtze River and the Grand Canal, has made a name for itself with a wealth of sites of historical interest and elegant gardens. These include the Lean West Lake (actually a natural waterway feeding mountain runoffs into the Grand Canal), Geyuan Garden (whose forte is artificial rockwork), and Lesser Pangu Garden. During their repeated visits to Yangzhou, emperors Kangxi and Qianlong left a succession of historical sites on the land of Yangzhou. This has prompted local travel agencies to invent the "Emperor Qianlong Cruise", which transports visitors to a string of local attractions. Shugand Scenic Zone and Cruise on the Ancient Grand Canal are yet another two popular tourist programs. Other places worth seeing: Tianning Temple Museum, Daming Temple, Monk Jianzhen Memorial Hall, and Memorial Hall of Eight Yangzhou Eccentrics.

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