Please forgive the bathetic subject line, but read on and you'll see
what I mean. I moved to the U.K. from the U.S. about seven years ago.
While here I qualified to be a secondary school ICT teacher--the
qualification is called the PGCE--Post Graduate Certificate of
Education. It is a one year course comprised of about 10 weeks of
classroom instruction with the rest of the year taken up with actual
classroom teaching.
I am thinking of moving back to the US, but I don't know if my
qualifications would be accepted over there. I have a bachelor's
degree in Journalism and a one-year diploma in computer science as
well as the PGCE.
1) Would the PGCE qualify me to teach high school in the US?
2) Would a one year diploma in computer science qualify me to teach
high school computer science?
3) Assuming that I would be allowed to teach, how likely would I be to
actually get hired with these qualifications?
4) If my qualifications would not be accepted, what would I have to do
to get qualified? Would I have to do a full 3 year teaching degree in
an American university?
4) Is IT actually offered as a subject in American high schools? I
think computer science probably is, but in Britain a high school IT
teacher teaches IT skills--databases, spreadsheets, etc. Is this the
kind of thing which is taught in computer science cl***** in the US,
or is it more oriented toward programming and hardware?
Any help you could give would be very gratefully received.
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