This is a follow-up to the thread to where a young UK student expressed interest in possibilily teaching in the U.S., Canada, NZ or Australia in the future. (See current thread on penpal wanted.)

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Thank you for your reply in the forums to my question. I don't suppose you would be able to point me in the direction to gain further information about teaching in the US, please. (((I'm sure he would also welcome information from Canada, NZ and Australia.))) I have got 3 years at university first to do but I do like the idea of teaching as a secondary teacher. Any information or links or contacts would be greatfully recieved, and thanks again for replying to my message on the countryside magazine forum. Yours sincerly, Craig

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I have no association with the teaching industry. Can anyone else help him find out what requirements might be for a foreign citizen to teach in a U.S. educational instituation? Likely they vary state-by-state.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 01, 2001

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Thanks ken for your words, I am willing to emigrate to any of the 4 countries mentioned above, once i have achieved my degree. But any information upon teaching in a foreign country would be greatfully recieved. thank you.

yours sincerly Craig

-- Craig Oliver (Ruskie@absolutevodka.fsnet.co.uk), August 01, 2001.

Hi,

I teach so here is a major site you might want to try, http://www.teacher-teacher.com

If I can help in any way let me know. there is an incrediable teacher shortage here in most of the USA. Especially in the field i work in, special education. I would also suggest going to the individual st departments of education and doing a search or either searching for teaching opportunities/employments. hope this helps.

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), August 01, 2001.

I've also posted this on Craig's original thread.

Craig, I'll post this in the new thread Ken started as well. Basically I'd suggest two web sites to start with for Australian information.

One is www.gov.au - it serves as a portal to all Australian government sites - Commonwealth and State. From there you'd just need to puddle around - each government "thread" will have it's own structure. Get to a government home page (e.g www.nsw.gov.au) and then follow through for their Education Department. Also look into whatever department handles "TAFE" (Technical and Further Education - sort of intermediate between high school and university - maybe a "junior college" in USA terms, but also teaching technical skills (e.g. carpenters, motor mechanics; but also laboratory technicians, pathology)). Tafe colleges are good because they do a lot of after- hours training, so you can pick up after-dark employment, either as full-time income or as a supplement. You can also treat them as a full-time employer like a regular school, but unfortunately they don't close as early in the day. Also at a government home page use their search facility to check on relevant subjects (e.g. "teacher employment").

Either through the commonwealth or state sites you should also be able to track down information on climate, and find information on local government areas as well.

The other site I suggest is http://www.apcstart.com/ . This is a portal page provided by Australian Personal Computer magazine. It has a section on search engines, many of which are Australian or Australia/New Zealand oriented. I favour Web Wombat, but each has its strengths, and it's worth puddling around there for a while.

Thre's no hurry - gather information as you can over 12 or 24 or even 36 months before you start firming up your intentions. The one thing I'd advise is that when thinking about something like a post-graduate education course, you make sure in advance that it would qualify you in the countries to which you're thinking of going - this could be a potential problem area in some states of Australia. I don't imagine there'd be any problems with a qualification from the UK, but make sure in advance anyway.

-- Don Armstrong (from Australia) (darmst@yahoo.com.au), August 01, 2001.

Craig:

Perhaps the place to start is by contacting the Embassies of the countries in which you might be interested in teaching in the future. If nothing else, you will eventually need a resident alien work permit.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 02, 2001.

Ken is right (as was John Hill), of course, about finding out what the requirements are for emigration (or immigration, depending on the point of view). The www.gov.au site I gave you leads to that for Australia, and you'd probably be able to find a comparable site for Canada.

However, NEVER EVER FORGET GOOGLE. It always (only one exception I ever saw) turns up relevant information if you give some thought to the right search phrase to feed it. On an impulse, I tried it with the same phrase I suggested to you before - "teacher employment". It appears to do as good a job as ever - take a look. If you're not using google, you're shortchanging yourself as far as finding information on the Web goes.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), August 03, 2001.