Welcome to the Colorado China Council's Website
Harrison X. Tu
You're wondering whether you should go to China and teach and, if you go, how you will grow and change and what benefits you will derive. Some observations:
Time in China will give you the opportunity to teach some bright and dedicated students. You may form profound and long-lasting friendships with colleagues and students. It will give you the chance to travel to the most amazingly beautiful, and geographically and culturally diverse places in the world, not as a tourist, but as an insider--someone who is living and working in the country. It will give you insight into the oldest, most populated, culturally rich and complex society on earth. You will observe and participate in the fastest growing economy of any nation in the world today. You will witness extraordinary pollution, poverty, bureaucratic suffocation, and crowding of terrifying proportions. You will learn to love the country so much, and at times you may hate it with a passion, but you will always want to go back.
Founded in 1977, the Colorado China Council (CCC) is a not-for-profit, non-political, educational outreach organization dedicated to developing programs to deepen the American public's understanding and appreciation of China's history, culture and contemporary life. CCC does this by sending people from North America to China for either a month in the summer, or a full year to teach English, as well as other subjects, at Chinese universities. As a teacher you will also share American history and culture with their Chinese students.
CCC has placed over 550 teachers, making it one of the U.S.'s largest non-religious providers of teachers to China. Right now we are accepting applications for the 2009-2010 Full Year Program and the 2009 Nanjing Summer Program.
CCC provides successful applicants with advising, materials, orientation, placement, and makes arrangements for its candidates with the Chinese institutions. For full-year participants, every summer CCC hosts an Intensive TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Mandarin training Institute in Shanghai during the first three weeks of August.
Professionals in all fields are encouraged to apply. Couples are also given priority. Recent graduates of a four-year college or university need a 3.0 GPA, good letters of recommendation and excellent mental and physical health.
Chinese language is not a prerequisite.
Please note that we can ONLY accept people into the program who are currently living in North America.