I am currently training to become a teacher of primary school children. Taking prereqs right now for a Master's degree program in Education. I have already gotten 2 courses nailed down with A's, not even A-'s. Still have 10 more to go, 5 per semester, before I can grab all my stuff together and apply for the Master's program. The school is the exact same school I went to for my bachelor's degree (in a science-related field) and I haven't gone to any other school, so the school will already have access to my former transcripts and stuff. The school itself is in the top 50 schools of the USA that boasts of a competitive Master's program, so I may need to bolster my application with strong A grades, cumulative GPA at least 3.0 (check), 3 recommendation letters / references and a personal statement. I am told by the academic adviser that the Master's program is for people who are NOT licensed right now. In other words, they want applicants who want to enter a 1-year accelerated program to become a licensed teacher in the State with the option to get endorsements afterwards (I hope to get the Bilingual endorsement, trying to make use of my bilingual biliterate skills).

Ideally, I want to get into the Master's program instead of opting for the Bachelor's program because I figure that would make me even more competitive in the workforce. But if I mess up my prereqs or my whole application and thus can't get into the program, then I just have to settle for the Bachelor's. A second Bachelor's. And I would have to compete with other Bachelor's degree holders for the same jobs. A Master's degree might give me a competitive edge, enabling me to work not only in my own home state, but also other states, perhaps even working overseas. Overseas employers would gladly take me because I come from a relatively prestigious university with a Master's degree, and from what I've heard, most English teachers overseas are just Bachelor degree holders with TEFL or TESOL certifications (or something equivalent). Furthermore, the Master's program gives me the hands-on teaching experience which would be like an internship, so that means even if I don't get hired directly by that school, I could choose other schools in the State.

The early grade levels in primary education (kindergarten, first grade, second grade) are the grade levels when students are just beginning to read. And we have to take RODMs (Record of Decision Making), and in taking the RODM, we have to account for the student's dialect or accent. I feel like I need some practice in this section because I once marked a sample student's reading as wrong, but the answer sheet didn't mark it wrong. In truth, I don't speak any of the American dialects natively. I don't talk white, and I don't talk black. I don't talk Southern or Appalachian or East Coast or West Coast. I was practically raised in the US, but my voice sounds like this:

Is this a good teacher-like voice? :

And apparently, people say that I sound Asian. I posted on that subreddit before too and received replies from other people. They still said the same thing. Asian. Not even Asian American.

I wonder if that would limit my options. Instead of being able to teach K-5 or K-6, I would have to stick to the upper grades, when students are less focused on pronunciation and decoding?

By the way, I do have some online teaching experience, and in my experience, I can do English-medium instruction or Chinese-medium instruction. Usually, beginners opt for the Chinese-medium instruction. I don't want to do online teaching forever because it's not a stable income. I might return to online teaching, perhaps, but maybe as a summer job... or I might volunteer my time at the library as a summertime ESL teacher.

I don't expect working at a bilingual school in my home state, let alone an international school or bilingual school in the PRC or ROC. How my parents got into this country (USA) is kind of based on luck. My father just read a lot of scientific research papers in English (because America at the time was a superpower with a lot of high-tech stuff) and did what a scientist would do: contacting the professors for collaboration. A US-based researcher was willing to collaborate with my father, and my father got sponsored--work visa and everything. In terms of reading/writing English, my father would be proficient; speaking and listening, on the other hand, are a different can of worms. For me, I don't know anyone in China that would hire me to work in a school OR at the very least get my application in the hands of REAL hiring managers who are looking for applicants, bypassing all the bots. So, my best bet to get hired would be a local school / a US-based school. And I might brush up on my Spanish knowledge so I could service Hispanic students which tend to be the biggest group of English Language Learners. Not that I will actually work in a Spanish-English bilingual school. It is likely that I will just teach in a regular public school with a lot of Black and Hispanic students, and I need to make my own classroom inclusive of everyone's family backgrounds and personal abilities.

Searching for a Chinese-English bilingual school position in the USA is a possibility, but I would have to check if the schools in my State are actually hiring. Otherwise, I might have to search elsewhere, maybe East coast or West coast, where there is a larger Asian population or greater demand for Chinese-English bilingual teachers. Maybe even out of this country . . . like Singapore or Malaysia.