Introduction:

The BridgeSchool has a team of more than 100 teachers working in a full-time and part-time basis.

The reputation of The Bridge School is attributed to the high quality of its teaching staff, academic management and all the professional staff’s service. At The Bridge School our team of skilled teachers is carefully chosen based on their qualifications, backgrounds and experience. All teachers have university degrees either in Chinese Language, Chinese Literature, Foreign language and Foreign Literature, and Business. Some teachers are fluent in different languages such as English, German, Japanese and other languages.

Our teachers are also selected based on their enthusiasm, experience in teaching and sensitivity to meeting individual student needs. Regular teacher training, teaching seminars, teacher evaluation and awarding are held to update teaching techniques and ensure high quality teaching standards.

Teaching Evaluation and Academic Training

■ Teachers' awards:
Since the fourth quarter of 2006, nearly 30 teachers will be awarding quarterly. The Evaluation contents as following: The contest related to teaching methods will be held; the evaluations of teachers (made by students); the attendance and working attitudes; The lesson mark(made a call by customs service).The final added evaluation scores will be released quarterly, The first three groups will get award in three different levels. .

■ Teaching method reinforcement: 
Every morning at 8:50 and evening at 18:50, we have a teachers’ briefing to discuss their student’s progress or special circumstances. 
Every week there is a teachers’ meeting focusing on each detailed lesson. 
Every first Sunday of the month there is a workshop for all teachers. 

■ Training and testing for teachers：
We regularly invite experts university and professors to introduce different teaching methods to our teachers; sometimes we invite some foreign students of Chinese to give some suggestion as well. 
The school will test teachers about their basic Chinese language for foreigner’s knowledge and teaching skills on a regular schedule.

■ New teacher recruiting and training：
Every newcomer to our teaching staff has to receive at least two months of training regardless of his or her previous experience. Our experts trains them in a hand-on way: the new teachers teach real foreign students who are invited by the school and supervised by experts who will help correct and train the teachers. In this way, our teaching method is unified. The whole process of training is filmed and all the teachers watch the videotapes. The new teachers must pass 4 exams during the 1st year to continue teaching at The Bridge School.

■ Teachers-level management system：
We have carried out a teachers-level management system to give all teachers a fair and open platform to show their capacities and abilities. According to this system, every teacher can clearly know his or her level in teaching. What’s more important is teachers’ management will be more open and democratic. Teachers can submit any questions and problems existing in all mattes at The Bridge School. It will speed up question solving and boost evaluation system. The BridgeSchool plans to improve and realize it within half a year. Besides, by the end of this year, bonuses for teachers will double that of last year’s.
At present, we have an around 100 professional teachers. We organize all kinds of lectures every week and month to give teachers an opportunity to study and develop. No matter if you are a graduate, or an experienced Chinese teacher, you are welcome to join us to learn and develop better teaching methods for foreigners, especially for foreign adults.