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tanja
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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: What I should get certified in? |
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| Hello! I am interested in teaching ESL in the New York/ New Jersey area. I would like to teach ESL in a public school during the day time and perhaps at night teach ESL at a private language school or at a university. I understand that in order to teach in a public school I will need to become certified by my state. I am looking into becoming certified through Montclair Univerisity. I am currently a graduate student at montclair university. I am getting my master's in teaching along with my certification in elementary education and esl education. However, I am not sure if my master's degree in teaching and my certification will allow me to teach in a private school or at a university. Do I also need to get my TEFL certification? Or does a TEFL certification just allow me to teach abroad? Can someone please help me!? Thank you! |
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PittsburghPete
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: What I should get certified in? |
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| tanja wrote: | | I am interested in teaching ESL in the New York/ New Jersey area . . . Do I also need to get my TEFL certification? Or does a TEFL certification just allow me to teach abroad? |
Yeppers, your TEFL cert. won't do diddly for you stateside. New York, I hear tell, is like just about every other civilized state in this here blessed federal union. You'll need to be certified (nationally or otherwise) as a public school teacher per their state regs to teach legally. They don't care about a piece of paper that says you did in a four-week course in Timbuktoo.
Private schools, now, might be a different matter. I'd contact the one you want to work for directly as they all seem to run by diffrent rules. On the other hand you could do like that Nigel Fogden fella in Canada and start up a private TEFL biz on the side for private students by posting your bulletins in the not so "englishy-speaky" areas of NYC. MIght fall in the "home-schooling" category legally. Better find out from some more authoritative source than me honey.
Good luck to ya.
Pete
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