Mandarin Language Instructor - 2025 (immediate opening)

Description

Job Type: Full-time

Salary range is Step 1 $83,995 to Step 41 $162,757 and is based on years of relevant experience.

At San Francisco University High School, we believe that the deepest learning requires collaboration among people who embody a diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and perspectives. In order to build and sustain a community that is comprised of a wide range of social and cultural identities, we must continually engage in furthering our self-knowledge, equity literacy, and ability to communicate effectively across differences. We challenge ourselves to do this work on both a personal and institutional level, recognizing that our community is part of a larger and more complex world.

University High School is seeking a full-time instructor of Mandarin who can teach all levels of a six-level language program, from beginning to advanced, using Pinyin. Candidates must demonstrate familiarity with Chinese literature, history, and contemporary social trends. They should be skilled in designing diverse teaching activities that integrate cultural and social themes. Additionally, they should exhibit flexibility in employing various instructional methods to enhance students' language proficiency and cross-cultural understanding.

Requirements

Because San Francisco University High School is a college preparatory school, we seek teachers who are thoroughly educated in their disciplines, who exhibit a love of learning, who will expand the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives present in our community, and who will contribute to the school's invigorating intellectual climate by promoting our values of care, inquiry, integrity, agency, interconnection. Throughout the school, we seek to hire adults who are stimulating and supportive in their work with students and who share our belief in the moral and educational value of diversity.

APPLY

To apply for this position, please prepare a resume, a statement of your approach to teaching Mandarin language and culture, and a link to a 2-3 minute recording in Mandarin addressing the following: Give an example of two successful lessons you have taught, one at a beginning and one at an advanced level, and explain what your general teaching approach was there. 

Please submit your resume and statement through the online application, and leave a link to the recording there.

NON-DISCRIMINATION

San Francisco University High School is an equal-opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. School policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.