Seize the rare opportunity to join the vibrant, dynamic, synergistic community at CAIS’s Early Childhood campus as a Pre-K Chinese teacher. Become part of a team striving to be the world’s most innovative, inspiring, and influential Chinese English dual-language immersion school. This position offers a unique opportunity for passionate early childhood educators to be part of a Pre-K-8 program that places great importance on early learning and provides pathways to leadership.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate finds resonance with CAIS’s mission to Embrace Chinese, Become your Best Self, and Create your Place in the World. As CAIS aims to empower inquisitive, creative, and inspired learners, we look for a candidate adept at child-centered pedagogy such as differentiation, play based learning, inquiry based learning, and application of best practices in language and literacy instruction. Our new team member will collaborate with grade level Chinese and English partner teachers and enjoy a wealth of professional development opportunities. The candidate will enter an environment that values social emotional learning alongside intellectual challenge. Within the framework of a strong curricular vision supported by English and Chinese directors, the candidate will enjoy considerable autonomy in developing the classroom curriculum.
BENEFITS
CAIS offers a dynamic dual culture setting, in which faculty are immersed in a culture of language learners. We look for a candidate who will embrace CAIS’s work to create an equitable, inclusive environment where all faculty, students, and families are supported in their individual identities. We welcome all applicants who aim to actively support our diverse and inclusive community.
The CAIS Board of Trustees and administration are expressly dedicated to ensuring that CAIS is a great place to work. As a critical component of our strategic vision, the school has committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and rewarding top-tier faculty and excellent educators with a benefits package including:
Salary scale benchmarked to the Bay Area’s competitive standards
Robust opportunities for professional development, support, and growth
Comprehensive insurance package (covering 100% of premiums for individual employee)
Adjusted tuition for children of CAIS faculty
Numerous opportunities to participate in international travel
Commuting cost assistance
Consideration for relocation
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Position responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Demonstrate teaching excellence, a growth mindset, professionalism, and integrity.
Collaborate with Pre-K teaching team, including other lead teachers, teaching associates, and specialist teachers.
Interact with children using positive, supportive, and respectful attitude, language, and tone.
Support child’s social and emotional development.
Maintain a safe, engaging, and developmentally appropriate environment.
Make sound, timely and appropriate decisions and take responsibility for the decisions.
Contribute to the development of community among staff by having open, constructive, and solution-oriented communication.
Encompass a positive discipline approach in guiding student behavior.
Partner with families towards students’ success
Develop a positive intellectual, emotional, and social environment within the classroom and a class community in which all children feel valued and a sense of belonging.
Work collaboratively and maintain standards of respect, courtesy, and mutual consideration with the school community, including students, staff, and parents.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of 12 ECE units or Child Development Teacher Permit
2 or more years of teaching experience in early childhood
Mandarin Chinese language proficiency
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work with colleagues from different backgrounds
Commitment to school mission, policies, and initiatives
Technical/Computer skills as required for job performance
Initial and continued tuberculosis clearance
Initial and continued criminal background clearance by DOJ and FBI
CPR and First Aid Certification
ABOUT EARLY CHILDHOOD DIVISION
For information about CAIS’s Early Childhood Division, visit
The CAIS mission exhorts all community members to embrace Chinese, become their best selves, and create their place in the world. As the nation’s first dual language Chinese and English Pre-K through 8th grade school, CAIS embodies this mission by working continuously to maintain our role as a leader in immersion education. CAIS incorporates the innovation and best practices from both Chinese and English language teaching traditions to create an immersion experience that leverages our distinct opportunities for language, subject, and cultural intersections. Our three campuses are located in the heart of San Francisco and accessible by public transportation in San Francisco. The lively neighborhood echoes the school’s vital energy and provides ready access to cultural treasures such as the Asian Art Museum, SF Jazz, the San Francisco Symphony and more. For more information, visit https://www.cais.org/about-us/employment
TO APPLY
CAIS’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is central to our mission. People of color and LGBT candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Email cover letter and resume to b_pells@cais.org. In subject line please indicate “Pre-K Chinese Teacher.” Please no calls.
