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by Boomba
Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Schools that take teachers with no teaching cert
Replies: 5
Views: 8566

Re: Schools that take teachers with no teaching cert

I also so top tier schools with poor management or micro-management and the poorest PD options. In the end, there are no rules. Let's say it is generally true. Keep your eyes opened.
by Boomba
Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:41 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: The path to get QTS after iPGCE
Replies: 9
Views: 12386

Re: The path to get QTS after iPGCE

Thanks!

However, what I anticipate is that this lgce would be considered as ITT ; if so, one could take the Praxis and get a licence, maybe?
by Boomba
Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:27 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: The path to get QTS after iPGCE
Replies: 9
Views: 12386

Re: The path to get QTS after iPGCE

Hi guys,

I am fairly curious about this 100% distance and cheap (2x00 GBP?!) PGCE:

- I don't see anywhere it is 100 remotely
- How about using it to get a license in Arizona then move it back to UK ? ;)
- How is it possible that it is truly called PGCE and not offer the possibility of earning the QTS?
by Boomba
Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:35 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Teach Now or iTeach? Which will allows to get a QTS?
Replies: 1
Views: 3813

Teach Now or iTeach? Which will allows to get a QTS?

Hello all,

1 - Teach Now or iTeach? I recently read about it.

2 - Any feedback about the training and its lenght?

3 - Among the options, which State certification is the most prestigious (especially abroad), and the one closest to lead to a permanent license without any PD to do anymore? (CA Clear for example)

4 - Which one will allow me to get a QTS?

5 - Did I miss something?

Thanks.
by Boomba
Fri May 29, 2020 11:31 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Teach Now Program - is it possible to have the teaching placement in the UK?
Replies: 4
Views: 5960

Re: Teach Now Program - is it possible to have the teaching placement in the UK?

Hi,

Teach Now will do their best to find him a school nearby, in the UK. (source: TN)
An internship in the US, found by TN, will not be paid. I assume it will be a similar treatment in the UK, unless there is a law imposing schools to pay their trainees.

I don't have the answer to your other questions.
by Boomba
Thu May 28, 2020 6:36 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: obtaining QTS/US teaching license questions
Replies: 16
Views: 22500

Re: obtaining QTS/US teaching license questions

Hello,

No problem for jumping on "my" thread (as long as I get answers to my questions! ;)


Meanwhile, I wanted to add new and fresh information regarding the transition from Teach-Now to QTS as I obtained this answer directly from the Executive Officer, Professional Recognition Team of Teaching Regulation Agency in the UK. In other words, the board in charge of attributing QTS to overseas trained teachers:

"The requirements we look for from applicants applying from Utah is a minimum of a valid Level 2 teaching license, held with the Utah State Board of Education.
If you were to undertake a Teach Now route with the Graduate School of Education, to be eligible to then apply for QTS in England, you would have to show evidence that you have also met all conditions to gain full teacher certification within the USA, in either Washington DC, Arizona or Hawaii."

Based on this, it seems that obtaining a QTS is still possible with Teach Now, right?
If not, I will use this email to claim so. ;) (Yeah, wish me good luck...)
by Boomba
Mon May 25, 2020 2:37 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership
Replies: 21
Views: 23404

Re: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership

Following my question in another topic, I prefer to ask here for clarity (there is my degrees' description above), do you think I qualify for the MA licensure in order to move it to HI?
I am mostly concerned about the bachelor degree/ITT as the MA website just says "Submission of an official transcript verifying a bachelor's or a master's degree".

In addition of my degrees' curriculum, here is my teaching experience (all overseas):
- UK - IGCSE 1 year
- Ontario: 2 years
- IB MYP: one year
Other schools/years were not recognized by the main English curricula.
by Boomba
Mon May 25, 2020 2:31 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: obtaining QTS/US teaching license questions
Replies: 16
Views: 22500

Re: obtaining QTS/US teaching license questions

Interesting post...

As for Teach Now, I hear well that the DC will be more and more under the spotlights of the British MoE. Why not getting directly an HI license? Would it work this way?

So, to get a MA license, the MTEL tests are necessary. Would you consider them as difficult as the PRAXIS?
I wonder... How often can we take those tests abroad?

Also, moving a license from MA to HI requires our years of experience to be taken into consideration. What would be the most important criteria? I never taught any American curriculum but I taught the IB, UK, and Ontarian ones.
by Boomba
Mon May 25, 2020 2:25 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Questions about Teach Now (PsyGuy please help me)
Replies: 23
Views: 29147

Re: Questions about Teach Now (PsyGuy please help me)

Thanks

Late reply but I wonder what you mean about the PRAXIS results and how the results can affect my entry in Teach Now. Do they have to know that I took/tried them??
I assume that PRAXIS tests can be taken as often as one needs?
by Boomba
Mon May 25, 2020 2:07 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership
Replies: 21
Views: 23404

Re: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership

Hello

Thank you for your kind help and articulated answer. ( I would also thank you in the other topics we participated in but I'll do once for all here!)
I doubled checked the ECTS conversion. I was right for the ratio CH/ECTS but completely wrong about the equivalence between real hours and ECTS as I thought it was 1:1. Thanks for correcting me.

After your explanations, I can only agree with your explanation but hope that the NACES agency will prove you wrong! ;)

Meanwhile, I continue to look for a good leadership training. I see that 6 months certificates called post-master or graduate certificate are relatively cheap, require a precious internship and allow experienced teachers to access them as long as there possess a master.
At the moment, I am looking for the marketability of such certificates.

Also, I posted here and asked how to avoid to translate degrees several times for multiple English speaking countries. Unfortunately, I had no answer at the moment. Would you please have a suggestion?
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by Boomba
Thu May 21, 2020 9:08 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Translation into English (NACES) : how to get a translation that we can reuse in different countries (US /UK /CAN...)?
Replies: 2
Views: 4351

Translation into English (NACES) : how to get a translation that we can reuse in different countries (US /UK /CAN...)?

Hello all,

Being interested in doing Teach-Now, I need to send my degrees, transcripts and other diplomas to a NACES certified agency.

The cost raises quickly and translation is the main reason.

Unfortunately, I will need those papers in different English speaking countries for the same purpose and I find awful to pay several times for papers already translated into the same language.

Do you know if there are any solutions to provide already translated documents to the equivalence agencies? I was thinking of apostilled / notarized documents. If so, how should I proceed. I'm French with French degrees.
by Boomba
Wed May 20, 2020 10:15 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership
Replies: 21
Views: 23404

Re: University of the People - Master in Education Leadership

@PsyGuy

Allow me to answer directly in your message below:

I read that you had a masters but also the description of your bachelors/first degree. The NACES evaluation is going to read that you have a three year degree which isnt equivalent to a four year bachelors/first degree.
>>> I am of course no expert and there might be lots of mistakes in what I am writing here but I keep reading from various sources, more or less reliable, that a Licence = US Bachelor, in particular after the Bologna Declaration (European LMD Reform). Your text seems to imply a variation between 3 and 4-year bachelors in the US but I might be mistaken.
In addition, various people, including former high-school students who studied in both system told me that the last year of high-school in the US was the equivalent of the previous year in France. I am not trying to compare and say we are the best; focus might be different, curricula are various and theirs bring skills we don't (rhetoric, communication, etc.). However, it adds up on my first assumption.
I will soon send my scans to Spantran for an equivalence. We'll get the answer. (Translation of all the papers will be a pain... If someone knows a trick to save some money, please share. I will open a subject about it I think.)


Thus a year of year masters will apply to your bachelors/first degree to get 4 years leaving you with essentially a bachelors +15 hours/1 year.
>>> Please, explain what you mean by B. + 15h/y ?

Thats what I think the NACS evaluation is going to come back as, and its going to raise some issues, though the "masterization" isnt going to be much of an issue. Its going to be the equivalence of the degree in years/time, whether an associates plus on year is a three years bachelors/first degree and what the major course of study is, and its not likely to be education.
>>> I don't understand your sentences at all, especially this part "not likely to be education".

Weird huh, but no, I dont mean you get a teaching credential and then an administrative (leadership) credential. The two are not always intrinsically linked. To get a standard (professional grade) leadership credential in DC you need a bachelors/first degree, 4 yrs of K12/KS experience (most commonly as a DT/IT) pass the SLLA exam (an ETS exam, same company as the Praxis) and complete a criminal background check. You need the experience but you dont need to be credentialed while getting that experience.
You dont even need the masters degree, you can get a provisional (entry grade) executive leadership credential from MA with just a basic pedagogy exam a bachelors/first degree and three years of K12/KS experience.

>>> In my own words, to be sure to understand how it works and add some clarity. Correct me if I am wrong:
- In DC and MA (Massachusetts), I only need a bachelor (any??) but it must be first class. While being the major of promotion, I did not get a first degree Bachelor. Can one use his Master as an extra qualification?
- Experience with or without a teaching license still counts. US and International teaching too.
- Both for DC and MA:
*Are we talking about leadership or teaching experience here?
* Do the experience prior to the provisional/professional licenses count both for DC and MA?
- For DC: 4 years of XP + the SLLA test, similar to Praxis in its form.
- For MA: First, apply for a provisional leadership license, then complete or justify 3 years of XP.

I passed the SLLA on my first attempt cold.
>>> Encouraging!