At the moment, only people with teaching licenses are legally permitted to teach in public schools here. We got a discussion going about that:
In my opinion, only people trained in teaching English to speakers of other languages or individuals with bilingual teaching experience should be teaching English in public school classrooms here. It’s helpful from a cultural standpoint to have math or history teachers from English speaking countries, but it’s not great from a teaching the English language standpoint. Either that or the MOE needs to step up its training (and accountability…)