Mandarin Language Instructor - 2025 (immediate opening)
Apply NowCompany: San Francisco University High School
Location: San Francisco, CA 94112
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 the language in a program that focuses on the close reading and analysis of literary texts, and where supplementary course materials are teacher-generated (no commercial textbooks). Candidates should have a degree in Chinese language or Chinese literature, teaching experience, preferably in high school, and strong fluency in the language. We are especially interested in candidates who exhibit a passion for teaching language and culture through literature, and for collaborating on a teaching team.
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 through literature, and a link to a 2-3 minute recording in Mandarin addressing the following: Give an example of a literary text you would like to teach. How would you teach it, and how would you assess the students' close reading?
Please submit all materials using the online application. The linked recording can be either audio or video.
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.
Salary Description
Annual Salary
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 the language in a program that focuses on the close reading and analysis of literary texts, and where supplementary course materials are teacher-generated (no commercial textbooks). Candidates should have a degree in Chinese language or Chinese literature, teaching experience, preferably in high school, and strong fluency in the language. We are especially interested in candidates who exhibit a passion for teaching language and culture through literature, and for collaborating on a teaching team.
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 through literature, and a link to a 2-3 minute recording in Mandarin addressing the following: Give an example of a literary text you would like to teach. How would you teach it, and how would you assess the students' close reading?
Please submit all materials using the online application. The linked recording can be either audio or video.
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.
Salary Description
Annual Salary