Yes. It is part of the bilingual 2030 initiative. I know it’s tough to believe someone you don’t know on forumosa, but someone in a position of knowing confirmed this.
Here’s a few articles where they considered it.
MOE aiming to boost all-English class instruction - Taipei Times
I hope it does get reported soon.
In addition to relaxing the restrictions on teaching English in kindergarten, Hsu stated that the MOE is planning on amending the law and curriculum to expand the number of hours of English taught from elementary school through high school, and raising the number of bilingual classes.
Currently, English is not taught until third grade, with only one class on the subject offered per week in third and fourth grade. In fifth and sixth grade, two English classes are taught per week. Not until middle school are three classes provided in the language on a weekly basis. Hsu said that in order to promote English as a second official language, more emphasis will be placed on developing basic listening and speaking ability in English at early ages and increasing the density of courses provided on the language.
It’s mentioned here so this legislation must have passed
It’s the only way they’re going to get close to bilingual 2030. They’ll need to recruit NES teachers for the kids from poorer families in the public kindergartens.
I should say, I don’t think this means all foreigner teachers working at kindergartens are now safe. Many still focus too much on worksheets and are too rigourous which likely does go against the rules.
Finally those ladies on Tinder can get what they want. 
And, currently, they should have work right or open work permit, and credential to teach at kinder.
Where I am in Taiwan right now, I am only doing EFL to mainly grade 6 students in 3 different schools. The problem is each class has English with me for only once a week at all 3 schools. At my main school, I will be doing a cross curricular program with my grade 6 students. It’s a slight change for the second semester. What I will be doing by next February is teaching them songs in English. More like a music and EFL program. I guess they are gradually moving me into a bilingual program for teaching music using English right? I would prefer that than teaching performance arts drama.
If it is true that the MOE has changed its rules then why would foreigners on a work sponsored ARC not be allowed to teach in a kindergarten?
Because, kindergarten cannot support work permit currently, and teachers at kinder are not allowed to be dispached.
Therefore we should not be teaching English to Kindergartens. And besides I am not a Kindergarten certified teacher so I wouldn’t want to do Kindergarten.
Kindergartens can’t support work permits for foreign English teachers because the MOE didn’t allow English to be taught there. If the MOE now allows English to be taught in kindergartens then surely they will now be able to support work permits for suitably qualified foreign English teachers.
They need to amend several laws.
That’s great news.
Retention rates need to improve. No point hiring and then 12 months later needing to do the same process.
This is incredible news! This has been the biggest hurdle to bilingualism in Taiwan. With a solid English foundation I believe this CLIL classes have a chance of success.
I believe that, to get around the teaching requirement, schools will just park a certified teacher in the classroom and let the foreigner do their thing. Call it some sort of support position.
Great News for Taiwan but not that great for my little buxiban. The competition has increased.
Many countries have implemented bilingual education programs that have failed, detractors of these programs say having local teachers without a high proficiency in English teaching subjects like Science or Math to students that are even less proficient is a good recipe for failure. Good thing is that it seems in Taiwan they only consider using English to teach “less important” subjects like P.E. or Music. however having teachers, locals or foreigners, teaching subjects they have no idea how to teach instead of hiring teachers with a background related to the subject doesn’t sound like a great idea
Only problem is most certified teachers wouldn’t choose Taiwan as they can generally make more money in North America or Saudi or something. The pay rates for Taiwan aren’t all that great compared to other places. Certified teachers that are here are here for other reasons not just a big salary
In five years of working in public schools, maybe a third of the people I was teaching with directly had any qualification to be there. Most local “teachers” were someone in the school’s relative who may or may not have even graduated from college (in anything, let alone education) and almost all foreign “teachers” either had a substitute teaching license and zero actual teaching experience outside Taiwan or were from Fulbright and were recent college grads who’d basically been scammed into believing they would hang out in the back of the classroom and “help with some stuff” but were just tossed into classrooms ALONE and told to go teach, despite probably 98% of them holding degrees in ANYTHING but education and only about a two week orientation on what teaching is. There were a lot of FETs who actually had qualifications to be here, but most of them were only here for the year because they wanted a change in scenery from their teaching career in their home country. And they went back to their home country after a year. Which leads to…
^This might be one of the only reasons…
Yeah, and the public school salaries are not negotiable and you’re constantly reminded by your co-workers about how “nice you have it” because “you have such a high salary” even though you’d barely be above the poverty line with that salary in the US. (And I don’t want to hear about how cost of living here is lower. I can’t begin to be able to afford property here on my “generous salary” and I don’t make enough that setting aside 25% of my income will give me nearly enough to retire to my home country)
I have to agree with you ado. Last year when I was teaching in the bilingual program, they had me teaching grade 4 performance arts drama to grade 4 students, and I am not a drama specialist. I also taught grade 2 PE and I am not a PE specialist, but the co-teacher I worked with was supportive of me and I did better with the PE than I did with the others. But even though I love my job, deep inside I really hated that bilingual education teaching assignment.
Looks like it:
“ a highly proficient English-speaking population”
Hahahah rotfl!! 
Where exactly is this “population”? Chinese learning institutes?
Guys, can you please tell me where would you apply if you have these qualifications:
QTS /Qualified Teacher Status from the UK/, BA /Hons/ in English language teaching, MA in Language Teaching, CELTA, one year of experience teaching in Taiwan. Qualifications to teach English as a first and second language.
Thanks a lot for your help!