What IEEA Does

IEEA performs four main tasks as a non-profit Educational consultancy in Hainan Province:

1. Teacher placement

2. Student placement

3. Government programs

4. Poverty-relief

  1. Teacher Placement:
    * We accept applications from native English speakers with the proper certification who want to teach conversation English in Hainan.
    * We place teachers into various cities throughout Hainan (Haikou, Wenchang, Sanya, Wuzhishan, and Danzhou).
    * Once we receive an application, we search for and secure a position at a certified school—a school licensed to host a foreign teacher.
    * We process all applications through the various bureaus of China to obtain the Z visa—the visa one needs to work in China.
    * Along with the hiring school, we meet the newly arrived teachers at the airport, helping make first impressions more comfortable.
    * Until a teacher signs the contract with the school, we act as an intermediary between the teacher and school, assisting in contract negotiations, etc. Although, if the school hasn’t upheld their contract, we can step in and contact the arbitrator at the provincial bureau immediately.
    * If, for any reason, a teacher needs medical assistance, we can direct him to licensed, English-speaking hospitals


     
  2. Student Placement:
    * We accept applications from Western students and professionals wishing to study Mandarin in Haikou city.
    * We meet students at the airport and help them settle into their new surroundings.
    * Once the students arrive in Haikou, we enroll them into the Haikou College of Economics and Technique, home of the IEEA.
    * If desired, we can help students apply for the Chinese Language Bridge (HSK)—a national exam offered by the Beijing Language and Culture University that scales students’ ability in Mandarin Chinese.


     
  3. Government Programs:
    * Since 2003 and in cooperation with the Hainan government, IEEA has organized annual summer workshops for English teachers of the Li minority in Hainan province.
    * Each month-long workshop offers Chinese English teachers training in English writing, speaking, listening and in Western culture.
    * Since 2005, IEEA has also organized and funded a semester-long workshop for twenty teachers representing different counties and districts on Hainan Island.
    * This writing-intensive workshop trains twenty top teachers who have completed at least one summer course with IEEA.
    * Due to the success of the first semester workshop, the Provincial Education Bureau has granted IEEA permission to host three more identical courses over the next three years.


     
  4. Poverty-relief:
    * Each year, Hainan provincial leaders designate various districts of Hainan to be annual poverty-relief areas.
    *IEEA visits these districts and surveys each school, looking for where the most desperate structural needs lie.
    *Then, with money raised through private donations, IEEA returns to these areas and, with the help of volunteers, sets to rebuild what the schools lack.
    *In 2002, we visited Baoting County where we built new desks, chairs and bunk beds for each student in two separate primary schools (see pictures).
    * In 2003, we visited Baisha County where, again, we built new desks, chairs and bunk beds for each student in two separate primary schools (see pictures).
    * In 2004, we visited Qiongzhong County where we spent our time at Lai Hao Primary School. Most of the walls in this school’s classrooms and dormitory were slowly decaying and falling apart, so we re-plastered and repainted the inside of all the rooms. Where windows were broken or missing, we replaced with new glass. We inserted new doors, beds and podium and fixed both the teachers’ and students’ desks and chairs (see pictures).