However, the certificate is only a bonus item, not a mandatory option.
According to my personal experience in the related industries of international Chinese teachers for many years, I have the following reminders for your reference only:
First of all, the biggest problem for TCFL teachers at present is whether they can find a job, not whether they have a certificate.
In recent years, various certificate training institutions in China have trained tens of thousands of certified Chinese teachers. However, certificate training institutions can train and research, but they can't really solve the employment problem. The so-called "after research, you can recommend to a cooperative Chinese teaching platform for employment" is just to package and send students' resumes to some Chinese teaching platforms, and the platforms will receive thousands of similar resumes every month, so the success rate of recommending employment is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and there is no real guarantee, resulting in a large number of Chinese teachers with certificates and no posts.
Secondly, the certificate is not a stepping stone, but a real Chinese teaching ability and rich Chinese teaching experience.
When foreigners choose a Chinese teacher in a Chinese teaching institution, they generally don't look at the certificate of the Chinese teacher, but ask the teacher to give a trial lecture on Chinese teaching, and they can sign up for study after passing the trial lecture. Therefore, when recruiting Chinese teachers, real Chinese teaching institutions do not pay attention to what certificates candidates have, but ask for trial lectures. Only candidates with real Chinese teaching ability and rich Chinese teaching experience can be hired after probation. Therefore, the certificate is not a stepping stone for Chinese teachers to apply, but a real Chinese teaching ability and rich teaching experience. Those who say that certificates are a stepping stone to the education industry in China are all certificate training institutions.
Moreover, the training method based on textual research lacks the cultivation of practical teaching ability and cannot really meet the requirements of Chinese teaching.
At present, the teaching and training of Chinese as a foreign language industry is basically for textual research. Most Chinese teachers who participated in the training got the so-called international Chinese teacher certificate without even teaching foreigners. Just like drivers who got their driver's license without driving, they have no theoretical level, real Chinese teaching practice ability and teaching experience, and can't meet the real Chinese teaching requirements. A large number of teachers with short certificates can't successfully apply for suitable positions with their own teaching ability, and real Chinese teaching institutions can't find excellent teachers with high teaching ability and rich teaching experience.
Finally, in Shuobo, after the training, students will be hired to participate in Chinese teaching. With rich experience in Chinese teaching, textual research will naturally follow.
Shubo International has a well-known Chinese school, Super Mandarin, and more than 500 foreign students take part in Chinese learning every month. In Shuobo, students can directly recommend positions to teach Chinese after training (no need to recommend them after textual research) and accumulate rich Chinese teaching experience. Under normal circumstances, master students can be recommended to teach Chinese within two months from the date of training. On the basis of Chinese teaching experience, master students will participate in the research of international Chinese teachers at the right time, just as drivers with many years of driving experience will re-test their driver's license. Chinese teachers who are trained by Master Bo and have rich experience in Chinese teaching are very popular and well received even if they apply to other Chinese teaching institutions.