How can I do to be a English teacher in the USA

[sunhoek]

Hi! everyone!

I dream that I can teach English over the world.

How can I do to teach English to kids in USA ?

Is there someone who knows the method?

Best regards!

[Torsten]

Hi Sunho,

You can achieve any goal you want as long as you follow the laws of success. As for teaching English to kids in the US, here is what I suggest you should do:

Write down how you have been learning English yourself.
This is important because you have know exactly how the language learning process works. You also need to analyze how other people learn languages. Read and study everything on the subject and make notes.

Create your own English learning program.
This step has two benefits: First, you will speed up your own learning process because and second, you will be able to use the system or parts of it with your students.

Connect with native speakers who are working as professional English language instructors, trainers and coaches.
You need to exchange experiences with other trainers to keep abreast of the latest developments in your industry and improve your training skills constantly.

There are probably more steps you have to take to achieve your goal and it's crucial that you create a plan you can follow. Also, please ask yourself the following question on a regular basis and make sure you can come with the answers: What kinds of kids do I want to teach and how how can benefit from me?

Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Torsten
PS: Your question should read "What can I do to become an English teacher in the US?" or "How can I become an English teacher in the US?"
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[Che Gevara]

Hi sunhoek
You are a non English native speaker and would like to teach English in the USA ?
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[Englishuser]

Hi Che,

[Conchita]

[Jamie (K)]

Sunhoek, the most important thing you have to do to get a job teaching English in the US is to perfect your English, which right now is not very good. I counted three major mistakes just in that short post, along with some subtleties of word usage that were grammatically correct but did not sound English, and all of those errors would have prevented you from getting an English teaching job here.

As Englishuser says, there are lots of non-native speakers teaching English in the US, but they have their own problems here. First, their English has to be nearly perfect. Secondly, their school administrations and colleagues don't really care if they have a foreign accent, but if your accent is not American or British -- I mean REALLY American or British, not a foreign approximation of it -- some students will cause you trouble. At one school where I've worked, students ran away from a native English-speaking teacher who had a slight but beautiful Jamaican accent that Americans liked. In another case, students refused to stay in the class because their teacher was from Russia. They didn't care that her English was good. It was just that they or their parents had spent decades being oppressed by Russia, and they were not willing to have a Russian woman in authority over them.

[Torsten]

[Englishuser]

Hi Jamie,

Speaking of sunhoek perfecting his or her English, how would you describe the level of English you need to become an English teacher in the US? I suppose we are talking about someone with an overall IELTS Band Score of 8.5 or 9.

EU

[Englishuser]

Hi again,

Do you think that your average English student knows if you speak with a "real" American or English accent?

EU

[Jamie (K)]

I don't know in terms of TOEFL scores or anything like that. By the time you get to the point of looking for a teaching job, it's more about what kind of university degree you have and how your speaking and writing is to the native speaker who is hearing and reading it. People can score high on those tests and still speak and write badly.

Yes, the average English student in my classes, at the low intermediate level and above, can tell a native accent from a foreign one.

[Englishuser]

Hi Jamie,

I think it's obvious that your apparent language skills and education are far more important to the person hiring you than any test report forms you might present. There could be native speaker applicants for the position, after all.

Speaking and Writing Sections are part of today's TOEFL and IELTS tests. I can't imaging anyone passing the IELTS Speaking module with superficial speaking skills because the Speaking test is in the form of a face-to-face interview with a trained IELTS examiner. To find out more about the IELTS Speaking Bands, just click on the below link: http://www.ielts.org/_lib/pdf/UOBDs_SpeakingFinal.pdf

EU

[Jamie (K)]

[Englishuser]

Hi Jamie,

I suppose you are right. A teacher should always be a good teacher; simply knowing your subject well isn't enough.

Did you read about the IELTS Speaking Bands? Do you think an IELTS Speaking Score is a valid indicator of your proficiency in spoken English?

EU

[lost_soul]

Hi, Jamie

[Englishuser]

Hi lost_soul,