The Amity Teachers Program
We would like to invite you to consider being a foreign language teacher in China through the Amity Foundation.
The Teachers Program is a project through which people from around the world are recruited and sponsored by church agencies working in partnership with Amity and sent to China to teach English, Japanese, or German. A typical Amity placement is in a college which prepares future middle school teachers, usually in a small or medium-sized city. In these schools, Amity teachers most often teach oral skills courses and/or writing, although there is variation from school to school.
The Amity Teacher Program emphasizes Christian service, and encourages Christian participants to bear witness to their faith through their teaching work and through participation with Chinese churches, rather than through efforts to proselytize. Teachers interact with Chinese teachers, students and Chinese people at large while they live in China. Amity sees the primary contribution of the foreign teachers in China as arising from their teaching work.
The financial support for teachers comes from overseas sending agencies which work in partnership with Amity, so potential candidates must apply to one of these for sponsorship. The sponsoring agency covers costs for orientation, transportation, insurance and, through Amity, provides most of the salary (the rest comes from the school). In rare cases where individuals do require some fund raising, it takes place in a context of strong church or denominational support.
