Teachers seem to be the next shortage occupation, after nurses. The question is, how do teachers apply for teaching jobs in the US particularly, given the menagerie of State requirements? In addition, the POEA had been exercising its clout such as the issuance of two memorandum concerning E-World Staffing - source link, below:
http://www.poea.gov.ph/news/2006/PR-...IR_Gibbs_2.pdf
and this news from the Daily Inquirer:
Singer Cynthia Patag files case vs illegal recruiters
By Ma. Diosa Labiste
Visayas Bureau
Posted date: June 20, 2007
ILOILO CITY—Singer-comedienne Cynthia Patag has filed a swindling case against officials of a training agency for luring jobseekers to nonexistent teaching jobs in the United States.
Patag, with the help of the regional office of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), filed the case against Norman Gibbs, owner and founder of E-World Resource Centers, and his associates, Montano Ruiz Go, Desiree Gibbs, Cheryl Pagaran and Venancio Diaz.
With her hopes to become a teacher in the US dashed, and P63,000 poorer, Patag said she wants justice for herself and many others, who shelled out huge amounts and were perhaps deep in debt, just to prepare themselves for teaching positions in the States that never came.
In January 2006, Patag attended an E-World Resource Centers orientation where Norman Gibbs introduced his company as one that trains all its enrollees, who possess a bachelor’s degree, to become professional educators in the States via the “Passport to Training” program.
Gibbs promised that his two other companies, E-Worldstaffing.com and E-World Staffing, would be able to send the participants to the States as teachers after six months to 12 months of training.
However, he said the teachers have to pass tests administered by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE), certifying them as “highly qualified teachers.”
In an interview last February at the West Visayas State University where E-World had an orientation, Gibbs said that he never promised Patag that she could land a job as a teacher in the States.
But Patag said the Bible-quoting Gibbs has repeatedly told participants that the United States needed more than a million teachers due to the “No Child Left Behind Act,” a federal law signed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Under the law, states and districts can recruit teachers using two routes—Praxis (Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers), which is widely used in the States and the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE), a new teacher certification for all bachelor degree holders.
The prospect of working as professionals in the States has attracted not only Patag, who has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from De La Salle University, but also many others from all over Western Visayas—teachers, government employees, professionals and jobless college graduates, among others.
Patag paid through the Iloilo office of E-World a total of P63,000 to undergo a “career development and professional training,” register with ABCTE, and for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) application. The last two payments were in US dollars.
Patag said that many of the applicants are poor and could hardly afford E-World’s preparation program, which consists of 72 hours of computer laboratory, the purchase of a CD-ROM, seminars, and the purchase of a thick photocopied workbook.
The ABCTE gives out two online tests, Professional Teaching Knowledge and Subject Area Expertise. Both tests consist of multiple choice and essay. Patag said she knew no one from among E-World enrollees that passed the exams.
Patag said she did not take the ABCTE exams. She said: “Me, a US high school teacher? What was I thinking?”
Filipino Teachers for Abroad
Originally Posted by junmar4
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