FOREWORD FROM ONTASA HONORARY CHAIRPERSON, (MR BERNARD ANDRIES HUMAN)

On behalf of our Social Self-Help Non-Profit Online Teachers Association of South Africa (ONTASA), I congratulate all members who successfully joined ONTASA by applying for membership using our Online process for REGISTRATION OF ONLINE TEACHERS & ONLINE STUDENTS on our website www.ontasa.org.za through which members accepted ONTASA Terms & Conditions including Minimum Requirements for ONTASA Membership which are duly elucidated in Point 3 here below with the understanding that ONTASA members are duty bound to adhere to our selfless ONTASA Motto: “Non Solum Nobis, Sed Etiam Aliis” which is the Latin translation for “Not Only For Us, But Also For Others.”

Additionally, I warmly welcome all members to our Online Teaching & Learning Platform which has been set up by professionals who are very experienced Online English Teachers in addition to being former Lecturers at University of South Africa (UNISA). Under the China-South Africa Cultural Exchange Program, students of Chinese ancestry may Register for our People’s Online English Classes FOR FREE by clicking on REGISTRATION OF ONLINE TEACHERS & ONLINE STUDENTS and thereafter students may Log into our People’s Online English Classes which are taught by South African Teachers either at Junior English Competence Levels A1 & A2 daily for FREE ONLY FOR THE INITIAL 3 MONTHS or at Senior English Competence Levels B1 & B2 daily which will not be free for 24 months or at Advanced English Competence Levels C1 & C2 daily which will not be free for 24 months noting that the said English Competence Levels A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 are defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Our ONTASA Platform links students of Chinese ancestry to freelance Anglophone Online Teachers who ONTASA may mentor and may award 120 Hour (12 Credits) Certificates in Teaching English As A Foreign Language to students having Chinese ancestry (TEFL for China), Accreditation Number AG/c/p/0218/08 tenable online from our Office viz., 23 Lewis Drive, Horizon View, Roodepoort, next to Westgate Mall west of Johannesburg.

I hasten to reiterate that Online REGISTRATION OF ONLINE TEACHERS & ONLINE STUDENTS for Annual Membership of this Online English Teaching & Learning Platform takes place throughout the year leading to ONTASA members accessing benefits either through being able to Login for mentorship from being potential Online English Teachers to become fully fledged freelance or pensionable Online English Teachers or through students of Chinese ancestry being able to Login to download a Link and a Timetable to join a correct People’s Online English Class either at Junior English Competence Levels A1 & A2 daily FOR FREE ONLY FOR THE INITIAL 3 MONTHS or at Senior English Competence Levels B1 & B2 daily which will not be free for 24 months or at Advanced English Competence Levels C1 & C2 daily which will not be free for 24 months.

(1.0) MENTORSHIP OF POTENTIAL ONLINE ENGLISH TEACHERS TO BECOME FULLY FLEDGED FREELANCE OR PENSIONABLE ONLINE ENGLISH TEACHERS

(1.1) Online English Teachers Login to download Study Guide in PDF for a 120 hour (12 Credits) Certificate in Teaching English As A Foreign Language (TEFL) to students having Chinese Ancestry.

(1.2) Online English Teachers Login to access a Link and Timetable for TEACHER-MENTORSHIP ONLINE CLASSES aimed at mentorship of potential Online English Teachers about Online English Teaching Pedagogy including Lesson Planning, Study Guide Preparation, Use of China Facing Online Learning Management Systems, preparation for Multiple Choice Online Exams (or Multiple Choice Online Re-Exams) for a 120 Hour (12 Credits) Certificate in Teaching English As A Foreign Language to students having Chinese ancestry (TEFL for China), Accreditation Number AG/c/p/0218/08 etc.

(1.3) Online English Teachers Login to write Multiple Choice Online Exams (or Multiple Choice Online Re-Exams) FROM YOUR HOME for a 120 hour (12 Credits) Certificate in Teaching English As A Foreign Language to students having Chinese ancestry (TEFL for China), Accreditation Number AG/c/p/0218/08 which is offered to ONTASA members FOR FREE at 19h00pm on the 6th day of every month.

(1.4) Potential Online Teacher, Login to download procedures about how you may engage ONTASA to invite you to come to a RESIDENCE WHICH ONTASA WILL ARRANGE FOR YOU to concentrate and pass your TEFL Certificate within 5 days through you attending 5 days of an intensive Residential Face-To-Face TEFL Certification Mentorship Program at our Self-Catering Heedmorine Student House next to Westgate Mall, west of Johannesburg in South Africa at an accommodation cost of R600 for 5 days which is subsidized for ONTASA members wherein ONTASA members use their own money to buy and cook their own food over and above paying the said R600 for accommodation including downloading procedures about how you may APPLY for Residential Face-To-Face Mentorship at the R600 subsidized 5 day accommodation rates by writing the SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR RESIDENTIAL FACE-TO-FACE MENTORSHIP to our e-mail addresses: 

online.english.teacher.mentor@ontasa.org.za  

COPIED TO:

online.english.teacher.mentor@gmail.com 

(1.5) Online English Teachers Login to download ONLINE ENGLISH TEACHER JOB INTERVIEW TIPS from “Ms Zhao Yun” about how to apply, sit and pass Interviews for Jobs involving Online English Teaching of Students having Chinese Ancestry

(1.6) Online English Teachers Login for Guidance on how to Download, Activate & Use the App for Xiaohongshu Database of Adverts for Online English Teaching Jobs in China whose minimum requirements may include candidates possessing at least Grade 12 and 120 hour (12 Credit) Certificate in Teaching English As A Foreign Language to students having Chinese ancestry (TEFL for China).

(1.7) Online English Teachers Login to download procedures regarding how, after being mentored to the status of freelance Anglophone Online Teachers, you may choose to start to independently and personally receive payments for any services which you will render to people in China in the Chinese Yuan (CNY) currency either through suitable International Payment Gateways (IPGs) or through our CHINA ONTASA MONEY TRANSFER in which ONTASA utilizes a special Bank of China Account of HEED NGO Marketing (PTY) Ltd who, (inter alia), are our Consultants for Educational Services to which Online English Teachers will pay applicable transactional fees which are charged by Bank of China. 

(1.8) Potential Employers and/or Schools and/or members of the public will be using e-mail to directly contact Teachers and students having Chinese ancestry whose ONTASA displaying Membership Number, Names, Gender, Cellphone Number, WeChat ID, my E-mail Address, Age as of the current year and Membership Status either as an Online English Teacher or as an Online English Student having Chinese ancestry as part of the LIST OF TEACHERS & STUDENTS WHO ARE REGISTERED AT ONTASA as displayed on the Home Page of our website www.ontasa.org.za

(2.0) JOINING A CORRECT PEOPLE’S ONLINE ENGLISH CLASS BY ANY STUDENT WHO HAS CHINESE ANCESTRY

(2.1) Online English Students Login to ASSESS YOURSELF, download a Link and a Timetable so that you JOIN any correct People’s Online English Class either at Junior English Competence Levels A1 & A2 daily for FREE ONLY FOR THE INITIAL 3 MONTHS or at Senior English Competence Levels B1 & B2 daily which will not be free for 24 months or at Advanced English Competence Levels C1 & C2 daily which will not be free for 24 months.

Furthermore, I reiterate that students having Chinese ancestry are reminded that ONTASA links students of Chinese ancestry to freelance Anglophone Online Teachers who ONTASA may mentor and may Awards 120 Hour (12 Credits) Certificates in Teaching English As A Foreign Language to students having Chinese ancestry (TEFL for China), Accreditation Number AG/c/p/0218/08 tenable ONLINE at our Office viz., 23 Lewis Drive, Horizon View, Roodepoort, next to Westgate Mall west of Johannesburg.

It is important to point out that, in compliance with dictates that govern China’s K-12 education system, students having Chinese ancestry who are of school going age will be allowed to register for free and thereafter join our Online Peoples English Classes with strict adherence to strict national mandates covering compulsory schooling, private tutoring limits, and standardized high-stakes testing which govern China’s K-12 education system.

(2.2) Potential Employers and/or Schools and/or members of the public will be using e-mail to directly contact Teachers and students having Chinese ancestry whose ONTASA displaying Membership Number, Names, Gender, Cellphone Number, WeChat ID, my E-mail Address, Age as of the current year and Membership Status either as an Online English Teacher or as an Online English Student having Chinese ancestry as part of the LIST OF TEACHERS & STUDENTS WHO ARE REGISTERED AT ONTASA as displayed on the Home Page of www.ontasa.org.za

(3) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ONTASA MEMBERSHIP

I duly bring to the attention of Teachers and students having Chinese ancestry of the following selfless values and qualities which constitute the Minimum Requirements for ONTASA Membership the latter which are part and parcel of Terms & Conditions of ONTASA Membership:

(3.1) Freelance Anglophone Online Teachers are duly reminded that ONTASA membership is primarily subject to payment of the non-refundable ONTASA Annual Membership Fee of R30 for the Current Calendar Year, into the Bank Account of HEED NGO Marketing (PTY) Ltd who, (inter alia), are our Consultants for Educational Services and whose account details into which you must deposit your Annual Professional Membership Fee of R30 are Standard Bank (MYMOBIZ) Current Account Number 10258074947 which means that only paid up members who are in good standing will be able to Login to access the ONTASA benefits which are elucidated here above in Point 1 and Point 2. Students having Chinese ancestry register for ONASA membership for free under the China South Africa Cultural Exchange Program meaning students having Chinese ancestry are exempted from paying the ONTASA Annual Membership Fee of R30. In short, I reiterate that students of Chinese ancestry will Register for free and thereafter students of Chinese ancestry may Log into our People’s Online English Classes which are taught by South African Teachers either at Junior English Competence Levels A1 & A2 daily for FREE ONLY FOR THE INITIAL 3 MONTHS or at Senior English Competence Levels B1 & B2 daily which will not be free for 24 months or at Advanced English Competence Levels C1 & C2 daily which will not be free for 24 months.

(3.2) In order not to bring the brand of our Online Teachers Association of South Africa (ONTASA Brand) into disrepute, all individuals who aspire to join ONTASA must at least possess the following selfless values and qualities before and during their period of annual ONTASA Membership:

• Achievable goal-getter.
• Conflict Management adeptness
• Courageous vision inclination.
• Cultural Exchange inclination.
• Dedication to duty.
• Discipline consistency.
• Entrepreneurship propensity.
• Ethical conduct.
• Faithfulness.
• Honesty.
• Innovative demeanour.
• Intrinsically motivated approach.
• Measurable performer.
• Non-prejudicial disposition.
• Professional etiquette.
• Relevant goal getter.
• Respectfulness.
• Selflessness.
• Specific outcomes bound.
• Time-bound strictness.
• Willingness to pay ONTASA Annual Membership Fee of only R30.

(3.3) Suffice it to point out that individuals who intend to apply for ONTASA Membership to be mentored from being potential Online English Teachers to become fully fledged freelance or pensionable Online English Teachers must meet an additional minimum requirement of proving that they hail from at least one verifiable Anglophone background from where the said individuals preferably attained at least a 50% pass in South Africa’s Grade 12 English as a second Language subject or the equivalent as adjudged by appropriate South African Qualification Authorities (SAQA).

In conclusion, I end by reminding members that ONTASA links freelance Anglophone Online Teachers with students having Chinese ancestry during our 3-month Academic Cycles viz., from January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December in line with our in line with our selfless ONTASA Motto: “Non Solum Nobis, Sed Etiam Aliis” which is the Latin translation for “Not Only For Us, But Also For Others.”