Hello all,
I've been married and living in the US now for a year, and I'm currently working at a temporary job before we move to another part of the country after the summer. My husband is going back to school to do his PhD and I'm trying to work out what my career will be too. If I were still in England, I think the perfect job for me would be working as an English Lit teacher in a Sixth Form, but I don't know what the equivalent of that would be here. I don't really want to work in a high school, although I would if that were the closest equivalent, and studying for a PhD to work in a University would be too time-consuming and expensive. Does anyone have any ideas? At the moment I have a good BA from a good Uni, and I'd love to have the excuse to do a Masters...
Also I'd love to know of other forums that may be able to help with this.
Hope someone can help,
Fran x
Full Version: Equivalent of Sixth Form?
QUOTE(mlovelace @ Feb 11 2007, 01:18 PM) 
Hello all,
I've been married and living in the US now for a year, and I'm currently working at a temporary job before we move to another part of the country after the summer. My husband is going back to school to do his PhD and I'm trying to work out what my career will be too. If I were still in England, I think the perfect job for me would be working as an English Lit teacher in a Sixth Form, but I don't know what the equivalent of that would be here. I don't really want to work in a high school, although I would if that were the closest equivalent, and studying for a PhD to work in a University would be too time-consuming and expensive. Does anyone have any ideas? At the moment I have a good BA from a good Uni, and I'd love to have the excuse to do a Masters...
Also I'd love to know of other forums that may be able to help with this.
Hope someone can help,
Fran x
I've been married and living in the US now for a year, and I'm currently working at a temporary job before we move to another part of the country after the summer. My husband is going back to school to do his PhD and I'm trying to work out what my career will be too. If I were still in England, I think the perfect job for me would be working as an English Lit teacher in a Sixth Form, but I don't know what the equivalent of that would be here. I don't really want to work in a high school, although I would if that were the closest equivalent, and studying for a PhD to work in a University would be too time-consuming and expensive. Does anyone have any ideas? At the moment I have a good BA from a good Uni, and I'd love to have the excuse to do a Masters...
Also I'd love to know of other forums that may be able to help with this.
Hope someone can help,
Fran x
Sixth form... isn't that grade 12 (still high school) around here? Is Form 6 the level you'd take before starting university in England (because I think that was how it worked in Hong Kong,... but I'd immigrated from HK when I was a kid).
Please set me straight if I'm wrong!
Grade 1 = Grade 1
Grade 2 = Grade 2
Grade 3 = Grade 3
Grade 4 = Grade 4
Grade 5 = Grade 5
Grade 6 = Grade 6
Form 1 = Grade 7
Form 2 = Grade 8
Form 3 = Grade 9
Form 4 = Grade 10
Form 5 = Grade 11
Form 6 = Grade 12
If you'd prefer not to teach high school, I think with the proper credentials, you might enjoy teaching "junior college", which I think is Canada's equivalent to "community college", as opposed to "university".
By the way, I'm starting to look for education-related jobs here too. I was a first-year high school teacher back in Canada, teaching English and sciences. My Ontario teaching cert is useless here in California. Since you seemed to have graduated with an EngLit degree as well, I'm just wondering what kind of temporary job you're currently doing? I'm bewildered by my wide-open job search now!
Thanks for the replies, I've been doing some research and think maybe a community college is the way to go; they seem to be fine hiring people with MAs.
Echomyst, Sixth Form is the final two years of high school in the UK, when you're 17/18 and taking 'A' levels. It's that stage between having to study everything at school and concentrating on one thing at university, when you've narrowed down your choices to three or four subjects you like. I did graduate with an EngLit degree, and I'm currently working as an assistant teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed boys (hard work!). I was lucky enough to have this job waiting for me, as it's a small friendly place and my husband works here as a lead teacher. It doesn't seem fair that a teaching certificate would become useless in the move from Canada to America! Good luck finding a job .
Fran x
Echomyst, Sixth Form is the final two years of high school in the UK, when you're 17/18 and taking 'A' levels. It's that stage between having to study everything at school and concentrating on one thing at university, when you've narrowed down your choices to three or four subjects you like. I did graduate with an EngLit degree, and I'm currently working as an assistant teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed boys (hard work!). I was lucky enough to have this job waiting for me, as it's a small friendly place and my husband works here as a lead teacher. It doesn't seem fair that a teaching certificate would become useless in the move from Canada to America! Good luck finding a job
.Fran x
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