The Latin American teachers’ visas allow them to teach at any SAISD school for three years, with the possibility of applying for up to six years.
Marian Mendoza, a pre-kindergarten teacher from Honduras, poses for a photo in her classroom at Ira C. Ogden Elementary.After 12 years of teaching in Nicaragua, Emilce González decided to apply for a program that would allow her to teach students in the United States. She and Marian Mendoza, a nine-year veteran of the profession in Honduras, are two of nearly a dozen international teachers hired by San Antonio Independent School District to teach in dual language classrooms.
“It’s totally different,” said Mendoza. “There’s so much disorganization. … You’d never see a school like the one I’m at now in my country. We are so far from finding a similar system.”Success! You're on the list. SAISD has hired teachers from outside the U.S. before, but previously worked with the Texas Education Agency to bring in teachers from Spain. With the new hires, the district now has fewer than 10 vacancies for dual language educators.
González and Mendoza hope to stay at Ogden as long as possible and are excited to learn from San Antonio students and share their respective cultures with students. “I want to contribute my experience as a Latina educator from another country that speaks a different language and show students [anything is] possible, that even though we’re from different parts of the world, we can do different things,” said González.
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