Teaching Chinese in US...where do I start?

Question

I have 3 years experience teaching Chinese in NZ to middle school students and am curious about working in US. Which states in US has a need for Chinese teachers? What will I need to do before I can start teaching? Which states in US has good working conditions for a foreign teacher? Do I need green card to work? Do workers in US pay high taxes - heard that it is about 15%?

Answer 1

Generally in Europe, South America, Mexico, Brazil,
and the United States you will need the teachers certificate.
University will provide you with all details. Different per
elementary, junior and senior high schools. Colleges are
looking for good chinese teaching also. Ordinarily I would
say my own office United Nations skill instructors would be
of help, although the United States is not the best options.
Europe and Brazil are the stronger concerts. All together
I would think that chinese professionals would want to use
some real estate advice to locate. Millers, Evengelista,
Chang, and Wang are the better trade servers. A good ISP, resources and those conditions I would say Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Maryland,maybe Florida are doing well.
Your office for supplies could be crayola, kraft, or shriver
for the best supplies. Tax cooperative like low cost housing is running well, Catholic locates, methodist in the south and midwest, and evengelist in the west. Catholics in Euro, Brazil, Mexico also. Look into the school insurance
initiatives like stock portfolios, good earnings in realty
rather then orient long range banking. Insures like Prime,
Metropolitan, Mutuals are in good order.

Answer 2

I am taking a course in Chinese at the Adult Education College here in Florida. They are offering adults three different levels and the class is full. see too that one school in Tampa is offering high schoolers Chinese and now are including another school in the program this coming academic year. I don't know what qualifications you would need. You will need a green card, hard to get and expensive, but you might consider coming in as a student, then teaching Chinese as well. You would get a student visa which is a lot easier to get than a green card. The tax is 15% up to a certain earnings level. But if you stay less than a year or are a student then you would not pay or would not pay much in taxes.

Answer 3

It is best to come to California since there are a lot of Asians there... and yes, you need a green card in order to work... and teachers in the United States do NOT get paid a lot. They make very little money regardless if they are foreign or not. And the amount of taxes depends on the state that you are living in. Your best bet is to teach at a community college or university... they get paid more.

Answer 4

pretty much all states have a need- there's a pretty big shortage. i think you'll need to get a teaching liscense for the us (or you might need a state one i don't know) but if you're not a citizen you'll need a green card. if you're still interested- try applying to larger schools- smaller, more rural schools probably won't be able to afford adding a chinese program, whereas more and more larger, suburban schools are adding chinese programs, but having a hard time finding teachers.

schools in larger, more affluent suburbs won't pay all that bad. but in contrast to the answer above me, it won't matter what state you're in- most students are taking chinese for international business reasons, not because of large local asian populations.