Overview
Part-time teachers are expected to prepare and facilitate Chinese language and communication skill courses, assess student performance, and provide feedback. They may also participate in the development of language projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and facilitate each lesson of assigned courses.
- Correct assignments and homework in a timely manner.
- Monitor students’ progress and suggest useful learning strategies.
- Provide group and individual feedback.
- Administer, assess and grade evaluation tasks, tests and exams.
- Provide students’ final evaluations and report on students’ attendance.
- Participate in the development of language or communication skills projects.
- Report on the progress of work for assigned projects.
- Integrate feedback received from supervisors.
- Prepare and teach Chinese language and communication skill courses at all levels via in-person, online, or hybrid modality.
- Use Learning Management Systems (such as Moodle) and e-learning tools in course preparation and delivery.
- Administer the course in the Learning Management System, including maintaining attendance and grading records.
- Develop new Chinese language and communication skills courses (including self-study courses) and learning materials, using innovative instructional technology.
- Design Chinese language learning assessments, construct and grade language proficiency exams following specific guidelines.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of experience teaching Chinese as a foreign or second language to adults in a multi-cultural setting (corporate, academic or other professional setting), is required.
- Of these, at least three years of recent experience in curriculum development, language examination design, and/or language teacher training is required.
- Experience using a variety of e-learning tools, learning management systems, online collaboration tools and social media platforms to teach a second or foreign language is desirable.
- Experience at an international level in a multicultural environment is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent degree) in language area studies, language teaching, applied linguistics, communication or education/pedagogy or related area is required.
- Degrees with special emphasis on the theory and practice of teaching a second or foreign language to adult learners are desirable.
- A first-level university degree in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Post-degree training in second or foreign language teaching is highly desirable.
