Monterrey Institute of International Studies in California (MIIS)
School for International Training in Vermont (SIT)
MIIS and SIT are supposed to be great programs, but are they well known in the IS world? Columbia offers an MA TESOL for the same price, and my local university offers an MA TESOL for 1/3 the price.
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- Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:42 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Are MIIS and SIT well known? (MA TESOL)
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- Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:41 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: US State teaching license/credential
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US State teaching license/credential
Greetings all,
In order to be more marketable as a potential hire, particularly at International Schools, I have decided to get licensed as a teacher in my home country (America). This I understand can be a process involving going through a university program.
This article titled "How to Become an International Teacher" suggests that simply passing the required Massachusetts MTEL exams will get you a license. Granted the license may be "preliminary", but it is nevertheless a license and may be used to help secure an job. The Harvard website also confirms the "preliminary license" procedure as just passing tests, no program or supervised teaching involved.
If I can get a license by simply taking a test rather than going through a university program I would like to do that. Has anyone gone this route, or another non-university route (perhaps through a state other than Mass), to get their teaching license? If so, have the licenses proved helpful in getting jobs?
Much thanks.
Massachusetts MTEL test
http://www.mtel.nesinc.com/
In order to be more marketable as a potential hire, particularly at International Schools, I have decided to get licensed as a teacher in my home country (America). This I understand can be a process involving going through a university program.
This article titled "How to Become an International Teacher" suggests that simply passing the required Massachusetts MTEL exams will get you a license. Granted the license may be "preliminary", but it is nevertheless a license and may be used to help secure an job. The Harvard website also confirms the "preliminary license" procedure as just passing tests, no program or supervised teaching involved.
If I can get a license by simply taking a test rather than going through a university program I would like to do that. Has anyone gone this route, or another non-university route (perhaps through a state other than Mass), to get their teaching license? If so, have the licenses proved helpful in getting jobs?
Much thanks.
Massachusetts MTEL test
http://www.mtel.nesinc.com/