Pretty much title.
But to put in some more detail/context, many nice schools want you to have a teaching certificate in your home country, but with the U.S. as far as I know, you have to do student teaching hours on a U.S. curriculum, so it’d be really tough on me and anyone else already living in Japan monetarily to move back to the U.S. and do that for a while only to move back to Japan again.
I’ve been teaching here for 5 years (between eikaiwas and an ALT job) and I like to think I’m decently good at it, but I have no idea how I can reasonably get certifications that would help my career without breaking the bank. Any help/advice is appreciated <3
P.S. I was told in an earlier post that without a teaching license an IB certification is pretty useless. Is this everyone’s experience? I’m just hoping it isn’t because IB certification is actually not that expensive. If IB is useless without a teaching license, then anyone know of any online and affordable master’s programs for English/ESL?
by The_Mundane_Block