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Cookies4u my advice? If you are American do Teach Now. Do it in Korea. There are far more ESL schools there to employ you and many international schools that would sponsor you to do your practical teaching.

Second choice, as you seem set on - do it in CSA.

If you are going to choose the PGCEi, my advice would be to run it through Washington DC BEFORE you commit to it. DC needs to approve it for reciprocity. If they don't, you just wasted a ton of cash and time for nothing. In the end, you want a qualification that is good and portable ASAP.

Medellin Heel has done a similar route to you and knows what he is talking about.

Just my two halalas - good luck with whatever you decide.

Shad

@cookies4u

I disagree with @SJ, there arent that many accredited ISs in SK no more than anywhere else in Asia. Theres nothing wrong with Teach Ready but 5 days in a classroom is just 5 days, regardless of how successful you are. If you have a cooperating IS that will only give you 5 days and not 12 weeks, Teach Ready is an excellent program. Teach Now is better, and if you dont have a cooperating IS at all you dont have any other options the PGCEi is the only program available to you.

1) The Teachers College is going to grant you QTS in whatever closest matches the title on your certificate. There is room for two fields in the database. Understand QTS is not licensure to teach any particular content area. It licenses you to provide instructional services as a professional educator and leaves the demonstration and expertise of content areas to the hiring local authority. A PGCE(i) is about the teaching/performance aspect of education not subject expertise. In general DTs in the UK demonstrate content expertise by their academic background, there are no content area qualifying exams for adding additional endorsements.

Well the UK is 4 countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Most non Europeans lump all of Ireland into the UK, but there really arent any Scottish, Welsh, or Irish ISs and from a curriculum standpoint they are almost congruent. BS refers to British School, and in an IE context it means an IS that uses the English (England) NC (National Curriculum) and if not Inspected (as a BSO = British School Overseas) at least has a British ethos. At this point the definition gets kind of murky, because much like the States any IS can claim they are a British/American IS. Some of them just hire ITs from that region and then include in their marketing that they supply an NC curriculum. When the membership references a BS or AS they are referring to those ISs that have either been accredited or inspected by the appropriate regulatory authority.

So an Inspected International British School (and any other BS including the UK) is going to conclude from looking at your resume in about 15 seconds that you 1) Havent taught in a the British education system, and 2) Didnt train in the British education system.

shadowjack wrote:
> Cookies4u my advice? If you are American do Teach Now. Do it in Korea.
> There are far more ESL schools there to employ you and many international
> schools that would sponsor you to do your practical teaching.
>
> Second choice, as you seem set on - do it in CSA.
>
> If you are going to choose the PGCEi, my advice would be to run it through
> Washington DC BEFORE you commit to it. DC needs to approve it for
> reciprocity. If they don't, you just wasted a ton of cash and time for
> nothing. In the end, you want a qualification that is good and portable
> ASAP.
>
> Medellin Heel has done a similar route to you and knows what he is talking
> about.
>
> Just my two halalas - good luck with whatever you decide.
>
> Shad

Is there a way I can send Medellin a private message? As I understand it PMs aren't available in this forum but are in the member's forum...However I don't see any posts by him there, and I'm guessing spamming the forum in the off-chance that he sees my post would be frowned upon!

@cookies4u

PMs are disable in the public forum and enabled in the member forum. Medellin Heel may not participate in the member forum or may be using a different user name than used in the public forum.

If you wish create a new topic in this forum with the subject "Contacting Medellin Heel" In the body include your email address, and words to the effect "Please do not reply to this message in the forum, just email me if you are willing to do so".

At a later point (soon) you can then just delete the message/topic entirely assuming no one posts to it. If they do, you can edit the text of your message including email address and replace it with -deleted-

You want to do this very quickly, the forum is indexed by various search engine bots and you want to use an email address you dont mind becoming a dump box for spam.