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blueboy
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 Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:32 pm Post subject: Is it possible to earn a teaching cert online while in China |
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I hadn't seen this covered, so I thought I'd ask. If I were to be teaching in China, and earn a teaching certificate from a university accredited in the US, would this qualify me for a job with an international school  |
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5h09un
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| are you talking about something like a state teaching license? you can't earn one of those online. the only thing you can earn online is a TEFL certificate, but many schools don't recognize certifications from online schools. |
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twilothunder
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Not sure how helpful this is but I'll throw it out there as it may be a path you can choose...
You can do a British PGCE, aimed specifically at teachers in international schools, online, from the University of Sunderland, which is a proper recognised institution (although not exactly prestigious, but that shouldn't matter too much in this case).
This basically is accepted as equivalent to qualified teacher status in most international schools. If you wanted the QTS on top of that, you'd have to do a teaching practicum in the UK, but that shouldn't be necessary unless you wanted to teach in the UK.
What is a PGCE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
The course:
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/coursedetails/?cid=1032 |
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basbas
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Miles Smiles
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: Re: Is it possible to earn a teaching cert online while in C |
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| blueboy wrote: |
| I hadn't seen this covered, so I thought I'd ask. If I were to be teaching in China, and earn a teaching certificate from a university accredited in the US, would this qualify me for a job with an international school |
Are you talking a teaching certification such as what one would test for after having earned a BA from an accredited college and then taken the Praxis test, or are you talking about some other certification unrelated to a college degree?
Teaching certificates aren't included in boxes of cracker jack in the U.S. One must earn a degree first.
By the way, what have you been doing since you joined Dave's in 2004?
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El Macho
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| twilothunder wrote: |
Not sure how helpful this is but I'll throw it out there as it may be a path you can choose...
You can do a British PGCE, aimed specifically at teachers in international schools, online, from the University of Sunderland, which is a proper recognised institution (although not exactly prestigious, but that shouldn't matter too much in this case).
This basically is accepted as equivalent to qualified teacher status in most international schools. If you wanted the QTS on top of that, you'd have to do a teaching practicum in the UK, but that shouldn't be necessary unless you wanted to teach in the UK.
What is a PGCE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
The course:
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/coursedetails/?cid=1032 |
Edit: Interesting course of study, but the program page states
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| This programme is for overseas students only, and does not carry any state registration such as QTS. |
/Edit
If you are interested in becoming certified in the US, it is possible to do all your coursework online through schools in the state of Texas. (Total cost is ~$5,000.) After finishing your coursework, you would need to go to Texas for three months to do a teaching practicum. As far as I know, no state in the US will grant a teaching credential without a locally supervised teaching practicum.
It's also possible to get a Montessori teaching certification entirely online. Montessori schools in Beijing pay $50,000+, so that could be a good investment if you like working with early learners.
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haleynicole14
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| El Macho wrote: |
| If you are interested in becoming certified in the US, it is possible to do all your coursework online through schools in the state of Texas. (Total cost is ~$5,000.) After finishing your coursework, you would need to go to Texas for three months to do a teaching practicum. |
Do you have any more information on this, El Macho? That's way cheaper than anything else I've found.
I had a friend in China who was getting her Masters degree in Reading and Literacy online through Capella while in teaching there. I'm not sure though if she was already a credentialed teacher, or if this program provides credentials, but she's teaching in the US now.
Also, I was going to Liberty University Online to get my Masters in teaching and there were people in my program living abroad. It would be totally possible to complete the program abroad, or at least a good portion of it. They required classroom observations and student teaching, but it would have been fine to do the observations abroad if you had a place to do it. |
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Miles Smiles
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Thanks for that! Great option for folks interested in becoming a qualified teacher in the UK.
If you are interested in becoming certified in the US, it is possible to do all your coursework online through schools in the state of Texas. (Total cost is ~$5,000.) After finishing your coursework, you would need to go to Texas for three months to do a teaching practicum. As far as I know, no state in the US will grant a teaching credential without a locally supervised teaching practicum.
It's also possible to get a Montessori teaching certification entirely online. Montessori schools in Beijing pay $50,000+, so that could be a good investment if you like working with early learners. |
Wait. Are you saying that one can get a BA AND Praxis coursework online for $5,000.00?
NC will allow online coursework for preparation for the Praxis as part of the Teach NC program. AFAIK, there's no accredited online course for a BA that will lead to a teaching cert. I don't think that Texas and NC are the only states that have online Praxis courses. |
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El Macho
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twilothunder
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| El Macho wrote: |
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| twilothunder wrote: |
Not sure how helpful this is but I'll throw it out there as it may be a path you can choose...
You can do a British PGCE, aimed specifically at teachers in international schools, online, from the University of Sunderland, which is a proper recognised institution (although not exactly prestigious, but that shouldn't matter too much in this case).
This basically is accepted as equivalent to qualified teacher status in most international schools. If you wanted the QTS on top of that, you'd have to do a teaching practicum in the UK, but that shouldn't be necessary unless you wanted to teach in the UK.
What is a PGCE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
The course:
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/coursedetails/?cid=1032 |
Thanks for that! Great option for folks interested in becoming a qualified teacher in the UK. |
Oh. A re-read of the course description found that this does not lead to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). So be aware.
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Thanks for highlighting it, maybe I didn't make it clear in my original post.
What I was trying to say in the bolded part is it doesn't quite give you qualified status to teach in the UK, but in many cases (although this is anecdotal from people who've done it) International Schools abroad will accept the PGCE alone. |
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