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Question

How to get through to teach in the States?

My husband is a qualified teacher in Trinidad and would like to migrate to the U.S. to teach. How would he go about doing that? What is the correct protocol in becoming a teacher? He'll most likely be in New York. Does he have to begin by finding a school which has vacancies and write to them or what? He has a visitors visa and has been to New York many times on vacation. He would prefer to get into Physical Education but he can pretty much teach anything or any grade as he's a Primary School teacher.

I have also heard that some schools in New York has Cricket on their Curriculum. If anyone knows about this can you let me know.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello!

Is you husband authorized to work in the USA? If not, both of you should read "How Do I Get A Work Permit "

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/m...

For your husband to become a teacher, he must have valid certification from the New York State Education Department.

http://schools.nyc.gov/TeachNYC/requirem...

More info is here as well.

http://schools.nyc.gov/TeachNYC/

Cricket started up in April of this year in New York High Schools due to the growing number of immigrants (like myself) from the Caribbean and South Asia.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/...

Best of luck to you both,

Steve

http://411newyork.org

Answer 2

Teaching in NYC - this website has a whole lot of information about it:

http://schools.nyc.gov/TeachNYC/default....

As for cricket, it is indeed now an official PSAL (Public Schools Athletic League) sport here in NYC.  14 schools are currently competing, but I can see that expanding fairly quickly:

http://psal.org/psalsports/sport/psal_sp...

I'm not sure of all the ins and outs, but what I've found might help you out here.  Good luck!