Debnam N

Hi.
We are trying to find out information about teaching in florida.We would like to hear from any uk teachers who are now teaching in the states.We have been unable to track down a recruitment agency that specialises in teachers. We have looked on the teach florida website. We would be especially interested in anyone who could tell us the major differences in the typical working day between the states and uk schools.
Thanks

Elvira

What visa were you planning to use?

Ray

No doubt you would be looking at an H1B
Three problems come up:
County schools cannot afford the legal fees.
You are not certified to teach in Forida.
There are dozens of other teacher trying the same thing.

You may have more of a chance with a private school
but the chances are slim too none ..

Plus the salary's are not that good ...

Thydney

Not that good Ray? You're a bit off there, the salaries are pathetic you really cannot afford to live. Mrs Thyd taught for a year and a half she and most of her colleagues had a second job.

Ray

Some of us are more frugal than others ....

penguinsix

Before researching salaries and house prices, you should research this:

How to Live and Work in the USA

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA

That will present the cold hard facts of US immigration law (very strict) and how you can get a visa to come here.

Bob

not just the cost, wouldn't be much good even if you got the visa as you'd miss a chunk of the year as you couldn't start till Oct....sod being a teacher, buff up on a subject at look at teaching in a uni, have much better chance from nill to slight.

TouristTrap

Teachers earn peanuts here in FL.

The cost of living is so outrageous here, and I am not kidding, but dh met someone who is moving back to New York because he says it is more expensive down here than it is to live up there.

Was at a party Friday night and someone we've known for a while, a wealthy dude says that he doesn't want to keep paying the exhorbitant taxes and insurance (lives in a 2 million house which he's had for years) and is moving up to Atl, Georgia.

Not a good place to start off life right now, not unless you've got a pot of money.

Jerseygirl

Would that be New York or New York City?

TouristTrap

New York state.

Though, he did work with one on a project in December who was going to move down here, from Queens, and changed his mind when he heard what our property taxes and insurance rates were. He laughed outright at our homestead exemptions too - 25k - couldn't believe it.

Our food prices, electric, etc..have all increased tremendously the last 3 or 4 years. It used to be fairly cheap to live down here, not anymore.

Elvira

But you don't get hurricanes, do you?

TouristTrap

No, thankfully, Florida have avoided hurricanes since I've lived here the last 10 years. Touch wood.

Tracym

What? Florida avoided hurricanses? My friends just had their roof replaced a couple of years ago in Florida. They get 'hurricaned" regularly! Maybe you're on the other coast.

Elvira

You're marrying a Brit, right?

'Taking the mick' - does that ring a bell?

Debnam N

I am entering the states as an itu nurse and my husband is looking for a teaching job.We are also looking at Georgia.My husband and children will enter on my greencard.