I hear it’s hard to get Mandarin teachers, how can we be assured we’ll have enough teachers to fill all the slots?
It’s true that credentialed Mandarin teachers are in short supply nationwide. But thankfully, there are many Mandarin-speaking teachers already working within the San Francisco Public Schools, as well as numerous teachers within California who are trained and certified to teach in our state. One advantage our programs have is that it’s easier to hire a Mandarin-speaking teacher to live in San Francisco where he or she will have a community of other Mandarin-speakers as well as a strong and committed group of Mandarin teachers at both schools than in parts of the country where there is no support system, personal or professional. Our programs are known nationwide and we get resumes from as far away as Beijing. A challenge both schools face is that many excellent applicants are not properly credentialed or don’t have visas to work in the United States.
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