Teaching Certificate Hacks

[bluk30]

Hey everyone,

Now that my bachelor's is just about done I've been seriously contemplating moving to Thailand to teach English.

The starting wages over there vary significantly and one thing that can really boost earnings is a US state teaching
license. I have quite a bit of experience teaching adults test prep and ESL, but still need that little piece of paper to
bring in the baht.

I saw some scattered posts about this on the forum in the past, but I'd really like to pick all of your brains about it.
I don't care what state it's good for, or what I'd be certified to teach, it's really just window dressing for job applications.
The TEFL certificate is over $1000, and from what I hear it's not looked upon as highly as a legit state license, so if
if I could get a true teaching license for comparable effort I'd much rather do so.

Anyone here have any hacks, tips, or tricks?

Thank you in advance!

[koolbeat]

hello (Greeting from Thailand),

It depends on your experiences and your teaching license or certification of teaching English.
Many school require TESOL certificate but you can get it inThailand ex. AUA . http://www.auathailand.org/sit/
There is no shortcut, if you want to teach here(Thailand).

[bluk30]

Thanks for the reply koolbeat, but the information you give is at odds with just about everything else I've heard.

I have quite a bit of experience teaching ESL locally, and have done some MCAT tutoring as well, yet everything
indicates that a white male US citizen with a bachelors and a state teaching license will trump any other qualifications,
experience notwithstanding. Most seem to regard TESOL/TEFL as a "weekend diploma" at best. I've done enough
of those to know that they rarely pay off.

Hell, I know someone making 60k baht/mo right now using a degree mill diploma and no TEFL whatsoever.

Eh, maybe I'll just take the question elsewhere. Thanks anyway.

[Lindagerr]

Vermont and one other state (i forget which) will give you a competency based teaching certificate. I don't know if you have to be a resident but you might need to teach there one year. Other then that I don't know of any state that will give you a teaching certificate without either a BA from a teaching college or MANY hours of post grad in seat teacher training.

Good luck.

[yb1]

https://www.groupon.com/deals/tefl-fullcircle So is this groupon tefl not worth 40 bucks? I got the sense that in Thailand you can pretty much find low key situations but to better prepare yourself it would be better to get the qualifications.

I wonder how Germany would be. I hear they often need English teachers as well.

[7Steven]

ASU has MOOC's on Coursera for a 150 hour TESOL Certificate. Apparently, ASU will grant a certificate along with the Coursera certificates. Or American TESOL Institute of Florida has a course that will also get you 1 ACE Credit along with a 80 hour certificate.

Perhaps Vietnam may interest you.

[Lindagerr]

I don't know if it will hold any weight in Thailand but New Jersey will give you a Certificate of Eligibility to teach with a BA from an RA school after passing the PRAXIS II and one class (either in a week of 6-8 hour classes or several once a week classes of 2-3 hours) plus a couple of other free or cheap requirements. You can get a job with this certificate but you still need more time and classes to get fully certified. The Certificate of Eligibility is official and stamped.

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[Mamasaphire]

OOPs just realized how old this post is.

I think the info may be very helpful to someone newer to the forum -- thanks for sharing!

[OE800_85]

Hey just wanted to share this program with everyone on the board. Although it's not an official teaching license, U.K. Universities offer online PGCEi courses that are very reasonably priced (3500GBP) and recognized by international schools. I've been recruiting international teachers and several of them had this qualification and were in demand

Edit: oops forgot to leave a link.

Postgraduate Certificate in Education (International) (PGCEi) - The University of Nottingham

[KayV]

Recruiting for whom?