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Moving from France to NM, want to teach

by Clara Bergeron

Apr 3, 2007

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Hello ! I'm planning to move from France to NM this year.
I've got a bachelor of English Studies, am working on my
Master's degree right now. I want to teach in the US.
Either French or Spanish (I'm quadrilingual, can also speak
Japanese) or ESL. Anyone has good recommendations to where
I should start in the educational maze I am facing when I
open the NM Education Department website? Thanks a million
and good day to you all!

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b berger On 4/03/07, Clara Bergeron wrote: > Hello ! I'm planning to move from France to NM this year. > I've got a bachelor of English Studies, am working on my > Master's degree right now. I want to teach in the US. > Either French or Spanish (I'm quadrilingual, can also speak > Japanese) or ESL. Anyone has good recommendations to where >...See More

Sep 14, 2009

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advice You should probably email the NM Department of Education with your questions. As for what subjects you could teach in k-12, almost no schools teach Japanese in America, especially not in New Mexico. There will be plenty of native speakers of Spanish who will outcompete you for Spanish jobs. You are not likely to be hired for ESL as you are not a na...See More

Sep 14, 2009

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correction I meant to write that your best chance is to be a French teacher. Good luck.

On 9/14/09, advice wrote: > You should probably email the NM Department of Education with > your questions. As for what subjects you could teach in k-12, > almost no schools teach Japanese in America, especially not in > New Mexico. There will be plen...See MoreI meant to write that your best chance is to be a French teacher. Good luck.

On 9/14/09, advice wrote: > You should probably email the NM Department of Education with > your questions. As for what subjects you could teach in k-12, > almost no schools teach Japanese in America, especially not in > New Mexico. There will be plenty of native speakers of Spanish > who will outcompete you for Spanish jobs. You are not likely to > be hired for ESL as you are not a native speaker of English. I > think your best chance is to be a French speaker because you are > a native speaker of French I assume. > > Perhaps you should also contact some teaching credential programs > at colleges or universities and ask them how you would earn a > teaching credential. Many colleges do a one or two year > credential program if you already have a bachelor's degree. But I > do not know if they will recognize your degree if it is from > another country. > > How is your math? Math is the only subject you can teach in the > US if you do not have a teaching credential. There is a shortage > of math teachers here. So you can join some organization that > hires foreign teachers to teach math if you can pass the math > tests. Usually, they hire teachers from poor countries like the > Philippines. It is something like slave labor. > > It will be easier for you to try to get a job with a community > college or university because you don't have to have a teaching > credential to teach there. k-12 you must have a teaching > credential and you don't have one. Good luck. > > On 9/14/09, b berger wrote: >> On 4/03/07, Clara Bergeron wrote: >>> Hello ! I'm planning to move from France to NM this year. >>> I've got a bachelor of English Studies, am working on my >>> Master's degree right now. I want to teach in the US. >>> Either French or Spanish (I'm quadrilingual, can also speak >>> Japanese) or ESL. Anyone has good recommendations to where >>> I should start in the educational maze I am facing when I >>> open the NM Education Department website? Thanks a million >>> and good day to you all! >> Hi Clara. Not sure if it's you, but comfirm... Brigitt

Sep 14, 2009

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Clara Bergeron Dear Advice giver:

Thank you so much for your advice letter, peppered with intelligence and good sense. It was very much appreciated. I am now in Scotland preparing a PGCE, a teaching degree, which will allow me to teach in the UK and it seems Japan, Italy, Spain... too! Hopefully one day I could go to the US too! Anyway, thank you again ...See MoreDear Advice giver:

Thank you so much for your advice letter, peppered with intelligence and good sense. It was very much appreciated. I am now in Scotland preparing a PGCE, a teaching degree, which will allow me to teach in the UK and it seems Japan, Italy, Spain... too! Hopefully one day I could go to the US too! Anyway, thank you again and good luck to you as well.

Sincerely, Clara Bergeron

On 9/14/09, advice wrote: > You should probably email the NM Department of Education with > your questions. As for what subjects you could teach in k-12, > almost no schools teach Japanese in America, especially not in > New Mexico. There will be plenty of native speakers of Spanish > who will outcompete you for Spanish jobs. You are not likely to > be hired for ESL as you are not a native speaker of English. I > think your best chance is to be a French speaker because you are > a native speaker of French I assume. > > Perhaps you should also contact some teaching credential programs > at colleges or universities and ask them how you would earn a > teaching credential. Many colleges do a one or two year > credential program if you already have a bachelor's degree. But I > do not know if they will recognize your degree if it is from > another country. > > How is your math? Math is the only subject you can teach in the > US if you do not have a teaching credential. There is a shortage > of math teachers here. So you can join some organization that > hires foreign teachers to teach math if you can pass the math > tests. Usually, they hire teachers from poor countries like the > Philippines. It is something like slave labor. > > It will be easier for you to try to get a job with a community > college or university because you don't have to have a teaching > credential to teach there. k-12 you must have a teaching > credential and you don't have one. Good luck. > > On 9/14/09, b berger wrote: >> On 4/03/07, Clara Bergeron wrote: >>> Hello ! I'm planning to move from France to NM this year. >>> I've got a bachelor of English Studies, am working on my >>> Master's degree right now. I want to teach in the US. >>> Either French or Spanish (I'm quadrilingual, can also speak >>> Japanese) or ESL. Anyone has good recommendations to where >>> I should start in the educational maze I am facing when I >>> open the NM Education Department website? Thanks a million >>> and good day to you all! >> Hi Clara. Not sure if it's you, but comfirm... Brigitt

Sep 15, 2009

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