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Adventurer
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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:48 am Post subject: Converting an American teaching certificate to Canadian one |
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| How does one convert say an American teaching certificate to a Canadian one. I have a B.A. from a Canadian university and went to the equivalent of teacher's college in the U.S. and 2 1/2 years of teaching experience in the U.S. I have no idea what people do if they have certificates from Australia, the U.S., and England. |
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anae
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: |
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Teaching licenses are a provinical matter. Each province will differ. I teach in Alberta and you must submit your documents to the province and they will determine if your teacher prep program is from an "acceptable" institution.
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| anae wrote: |
Teaching licenses are a provinical matter. Each province will differ. I teach in Alberta and you must submit your documents to the province and they will determine if your teacher prep program is from an "acceptable" institution.
Hope that helps. |
I was checking with Ontario and they require essentially the same thing, but there was something on the website of doing 194 days of some training. I am not sure I can afford that luxury. I will look into private schools and see if Ontario can count that paid, private work. I am going to contact them soon and find out more details.. Yes, each province is different. I have met Canadians who were planning on going to Australia and then back to Ontario, and they were planning on doing their certification in Australia. I don't know why they wanted to go to Australia and how they planned to pay for it. |
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pavement burns
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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The North American Free Trade Agreement gives a pass on porfessional requirements for visa purposes for most professional qualifications. You just prove you have a job an voila a visa. The exception is teachers. NAFTA does not recognize teachers.
The kicker is of course, being allowed to teach in a particular jurisdiction. In the Canadian provinces they tend to protect their own homies (BC is the worst).
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| contrarian wrote: |
The North American Free Trade Agreement gives a pass on porfessional requirements for visa purposes for most professional qualifications. You just prove you have a job an voila a visa. The exception is teachers. NAFTA does not recognize teachers.
The kicker is of course, being allowed to teach in a particular jurisdiction. In the Canadian provinces they tend to protect their own homies (BC is the worst).
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I don't have to worry about that since I am a Canadian. I have my B.A. from a Canadian university. I just have to figure out what Ontario means by 194 days of teaching in Ontario before being recognized officially.
I want to know if that is paid or not, because working for free for 194 days won't exactly fly with me. Generally, with Ontario, from what I know, you must send in a photocopy of your teaching certificate and other information and have your state or province send certain info. to the province, and then do some work in the province to get fully endorsed. |
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