Here in the Philippines, students respect their teachers so much. I remember back in elementary, student would always celebrate their teachers birthdays, even in High School we would still buy cakes & write letters for our teachers birthdays and holidays. I have seen a lot of teachers crying because of happiness, respect & love that they receive from students here.

They would rather find people who wouldn't demand higher pay, than to pay higher salaries to American teachers.

The US is fortunate to have Filipino teachers. They are highly qualified.

It's a great opportunity for us Filipinos. But at the same time, I also feel bad for those teachers who went on strike.

"now we have a single class with 38 students" Me: that's fewer than our average class

Filipinos around the globe,nurses,teachers,call center agent,engineer,farmer.filipinos are the most hardworking people in planet earth

im from the philippines what i see here is failure of both countries. poor american teachers who are not getting paid well and poor filipino teachers who will be discriminated for taking american citizen's job

Schools here in the Philippines have around 45-60 students hence, most of those who opt to work abroad are used to working with large classes. That condition is on top of the lack of facilities, humid temperature, smaller classrooms, a lot of intervening tasks and lower pay. This has made many teachers from our country, resourceful, resilient and adaptive to all the possible conditions they are facing. Salute to all teachers esp.those fr.the Philippines.! 👩‍🏫👍👏

I just hope foreign teachers don't get the hate they didn't deserve. 😢

It really shows how Filipino people are hardworking people.

It's not just the budget. If you look at some of the other countries in the world, the students there do much better than us with 1/10 of the budget. This is because their parents value education. Here in the US, some parents look at school more like a daycare. The teachers get no respect and blamed for students' lack of progress when in reality, the family environment is the problem.

Our teachers here in the Philippines are demanding better pay too..the only thing is they are not into rallies and strikes because it affect the performance of the classes.. The rural teachers? Some will hike 3 miles of tropical jungles , cross rivers just to teach with a pay of less than 400 dollars per month

Happy and sad story, happy for the foreign teachers and but sad for the US teachers who don't make enough while the foreign teachers are willing to make their salary but has to live pretty cheap like and in a big group. They have to work and spend more just to be a teacher here.

Unless you’re one of those who believed you were called to teach, I can’t find a single reason (other than summers off but even that is questionable) why anyone would take out hundreds of thousands in student loans to attend college, earn a degree, and work for a teacher’s wage anymore.

The rural teachers here in the Philippines have to climb mountains, cross rivers, walk through the deep jungles full of danger and even the areas where terrorists occupies in.

It's not just low pay and large class sizes that make for a lack of teachers. A lot of small rural towns cannot find people willing to move out there.

Good for them, they are in group, i know a lady she’s the only Filipino in a rural of Colorado and it’s hard to adjust

So long as they can hire cheaper teachers from overseas, the pay will remain low. It's offshoring of jobs. Businesses and governments are willing to do this wherever there's no blowback. Nothing against the incoming teachers, BTW. They're being offered opportunity.

I have a lot of respect to our teachers here in America and all over the world.

Educational System in the U.S. is a sacrificial lamb (for national budget) so they can maintain their military power.....saddddd!!!

good for them and it shows how disfunctional we are

I'm a Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics teacher here in Papua New Guinea. I sent my application to Arizona but unfortunately never continued due to constraint in finance.

Low paying job, disrespect from students, politics...why are teachers protesting?🤔

Registered Medical Nurses and Classroom Teachers are being outsourced by the thousands annually from the Philippines by several countries around the world. The outsourcing scramble is hurting the talent pool of the Philippines.

38 students, just based on numbers, is actually easier for the Filipino teacher as they are used to handling around 50 a class (at least back when I was a student)

42k a year? Wow, my brother works in city sanitation and does 65k a year. No wonder no one wants to be a teacher.

I Hope American Teacher's Union don't blame those Filipino teachers being hired and hope they will get the salary raise that they truly deserve. God Bless.

so what i'm getting is: the country of my birth and the country i am a citizen of both have no idea what they're doing with their education systems

How big are the classes?

42,000 will get you a lot in Tucson though. It's a super cheap place to live in. I mean it sucks there but it's beyond affordable with 42,000!

As long as they are good teachers keep hiring

It really just all depends. If it's a good position, a person living here would likely take it. I was shopping out west and heard two teachers talking from Arizona. It was insane. Not the students but how they were treated by the leadership of the state and policies. I mentioned this to a friend of mine who's brother moved from Michigan to AZ to teach. He moved back after 1 year based on the system. My friend pretty much confirmed what the two teachers were telling me. The story should be, due to how AZ treats teachers... they cannot find teachers.

Love the Filipinos/as. Ma buhay. Viva la patria espanola filipina.

Filipino people are very highly educated and they speak dual languages which is Tagalog and English. Some of them are doctors, many of them are nurses, teachers, computer engineering, accountants, fashion designers, and in finance management. These professions are very common in the Philippines 🇵🇭. We just value education just like 👍 India 🇮🇳. I think these two countries are the ones who can speak good English.

Each case is different. It is not only the qualifications of each teacher that are important, but also his human qualities. The teacher must find an approach to the heart and mind of every student he teaches

It has come full circle! Over 120 years ago, when the Philippines was a U.S. territory, the U.S. brought hundreds of teachers to the Philippines to educate the masses. They were informally referred to as the "Thomasites", named after the ship that transported them all over the Philippines. Prior to the arrival of American teachers in the Philippines, education was not available to the masses, limited mainly to the privileged. Now Filipino teachers are arriving in the U.S. to provide the same service the Thomasites provided the average Filipinos from 120 years ago! I love this.

A high school just outside of Phoenix has a teacher from Ghana, Camaroom and one from India.

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The commencement of formal education in the Philippines was first established by the Americans. Thus, almost all aspects of Philippine curriculum were based on American standards even up to this school year. We were colonized by the Americans, educated by them, taught us modern and western culture and showed us the true essence of democracy. We owe it to the Americans. We always have a good relationship with each other and I don't see any problem filling out teaching vacancies in American schools because we are persistent, generous, committed and loving teachers. We can sacrifice a lot of our happiness for our passion, family and dreams! God Bless America!

In the Philippines, there are more applicants than vacancies.

I understand the reasons of the Filipino teachers who applied but it lowers the quality of good education in the country when they leave their students.

During the early 1900 there is a group ship full of American teachers called the thomasites. It's a one way ticket to teach Filipinos to read, write and speak english and other subjects. Now this generations of Filipinos are paying it forward.

Be thankful that there are still teachers who want to teach our children in school and still has the patience to deal with students.!

Q. Can the school really afford to raise the salary of teachers ? If so, there's no need to import less expensive just qualified teachers and local teachers would stay. Not having teachers to teach is not an option for students and parents.

Expensive private schools in the Philippines have an average of 30-35 students per class. 38 is not really a bad number.

theres 60 students in 1 classroom in my school each grade

Same thing happened to fi,I Ina nurses fifty years ago

As a Filipino myself, it does anger me that while teachers in the US are leaving due to certain issues that your government seems to avoid to recognize, you hire teachers from my country to experience the same hell which pushes your local teachers to leave. Filipinos may be resilient, but we're not superhumans. Why do you think American teachers are leaving if you give them the dignity that they deserve?

$8000.00 is a big amount upon processing fee .Is any sponsorship to make the processing of papers will no longer be a burden?What about the age limit as teachers applicant?

It's a great opportunity for my fellow Filipinos and I'm happy for them but it's also a bad thing for the Philippines since we are losing talented nurses and teachers.

OK, so average teacher salary is 60k in the US, so WHY is it 42k in Arizona? Is there a lower cost for living expenses? It's the same as buying a house in two different places. The exact same house built in a large urban area vs a small rural area will probably have a price tag that differs by as much as six figures!

Teachers from the Philippines teach primarily out of live. Financial consideration second. The salary situation of teachers in America are understandable. It is the same here in the Philippines. In both countries, salaries are not that high.

People don't want the job because it does not pay enough money for the standard of living here. I wonder if the teachers that are coming from abroad realize the cost of living in the US is much more expensive. Because they're willing to settle for worse quality of life teachers in the US will never get paid properly now. I also feel bad for the kids in the Philippines whose teachers are leaving.

This covid 19 pandemic teaches me upgraded me to another level to become a much better person... I am a Lic. Elec'l Eng'r, works as a supervisor and a driver operator in a fire department, when the pandemic appears on our shore, we have been assign to decontaminate and supply water to our co-frontliners in our city boundary, at first we have fear and paranoid of that deadly decease and informed my commanding officer how come we provide our own pocket for our proper PPE at the start? Yes he explained to me and said "well do you see the barangays health workers wearing a high end PPE as frontliners in the boundary? NO..."..but then sooner it got worst, we were not allowed to bring the fire truck as a mode of transportation since there will be another agency that will supply water (i felt like a soldier without bringing a gun), , then i asked again to my commander and he replied " do you see teachers providing by the government for transportation in going to work? Even travelling as far as canoeing?" Sometimes they got abducted by abu sayyaf or kidnap? Thats how far as you can get how teachers here in the Philippines sacrifices a LOT... Even paying their own lives to teach filipino kids in a remote areas... I understood immediately of what my boss says, since my mother is a teacher herself and her mode of promotions back in the days was to teach first to a remote areas to rural areas to urbanize city.. I just hope foreign countries will not abuse those great Filipino teachers qualities...

This is a give back to the passengers of USS Thomasites 120 years ago.

Love it

Or they could jus start paying American teachers the living wage that they deserve.

Funny how with a bachelor's degree and seven years experience I didnt get hired for 40+ teaching jobs I applied to. I had to go back for a masters just to teach.

I just hope they prepare them for US kids as in the Philippines they treat their teachers with respect..

I was in the math teacher program and saw the difficulty of those doing student teaching to little brats that don't want to learn. The parents don't back you up. You can't be in their home to make them do their homework. Not worth it for the low pay

Just because you can speak English doesn't automatically make you a "good teacher". Teaching in the Philippines is totally different from teaching in the US. I love how everyone thinks it's so easy to be a teacher in the US??? It' NOT. The credential program is very rigorous. Also you have to understand the American Culture and the different types of cities your students grew up from. They are outsourcing the jobs right now because the state doesn't want to give what teachers deserve. This is just a cheap way of dealing with the problem...it's going to backfire.....

How to apply po?

They pay the sponsership fees but not give teachers raises?

Any openings? I teach math and I’d definitely be happy to come teach high school math.

So america is not only hiring Filipino nurses but also Filipino teachers...

Honestly it adds diversity and passion to the classroom too. Sounds good to me.

The worst part of being a foreign teacher in the US is the children are so rude and disrespectful towards teachers. The sole fact that she's a teacher will already gain basic respect.

I think it's great that Filipino teachers have this opportunities to get higher pay than what they get in their country but it's also realizing how that these schools would pay them a salary that is actually lower than what they should be getting that's why they have a strike

So..... now, the Philippine Teachers are teaching Americans,,,, it is like paying back, they taught us, we teach them!

I am also interested in Teaching in America I am currently undertaking and on my first year as Bachelor of Secondary Education student and will be majoring in English or Science. Hopefully this will help me to sustain and provide for my mother and younger brother which I will help to send him also in college.

It's OK for filipino teachers going abroad because they can earned many times compare there home country. So that they can have a better future for there life. Although there is public teacher shortage in Philippines. I think it is more important to deploy all filipino teachers going abroad. So that it can be alarming soon for the government. If there is alarming for teachers shortage. The government implement there salary became higher.

It's only fitting. Most of our nurses are from overseas and they are the front line in our fights against Covid-19 in America. When there is a shortage of teachers you reach out to other nations. Time is of the essence for school. Kids grow up and don't pause year to year in their education.

WAW GRATE NEWS

How does this work? One day the news says "there are no jobs in the US, pls welfare", next day: "100,000 open teaching positions nobody wants." Like whaaaat?

wow if that will be a huges vacancy in Arizon@ more Filipino teachers will grab it having this opportunity .

My SIL is in her first of 5 years in USA. Eventually she will discover that her salary (pretty good) will only be enough to cover expenses and a bit more but NOT for saving money to live back home. After 5 years she will likely not have much to show for her labor. That is why I left the US when I retired. Most of my money would have been eaten away by inflation, taxes, medical, and insurances.

I would love to try teaching in America 😍 why and how many Philippines??

They are the worst neighbors. Very loud annoying inconsiderate and clueless people to live by

Poor public school teachers. Starvation wages, etc. This is an old saw not accepted by many today. Teachers will leave public schools and take lower salaries in Charter Schools. Strangely enough some very capable people are coming here to work. More than a few of them are going to become citizens and be glad to get the pay. A great many people have chosen like me to leave the public school system. My daughter is a college graduate with a PHD. She had never been in a public high school.

This is a win-win solution all the way around. For the students, the schools, the teachers, and the taxpayers.

Teacher in pilipinas we respect and second mother we love them

Unfortunaetly, any state in the Southwest is going to have crappy teacher pay. Farmers and ranchers do not generally have education as a big priority and thus, teacher pay is low. They don't think it's that important, so they won't fund it with their taxes. I formerly lived in Colorado where teacher pay ranks 46th out of fifty states. Arizona is 45th. Don't expect that to change.

Everybody's going back to their countries I guess

They just don't pay teachers enough to make it a competitive job selection. Because of that, not only do they need to hire teachers from abroad but they also need to keep those teachers that don't even know how to teach!!!! :(

Philippines had high quality teachers because our government putting huge amount of budget for our education department. there are some controversy, issue also. but you cannot deny that our teachers are in top caliber. also our english was good

Hi Maam! I am a teacher here in the Philippines. I am willing to resign to apply for teaching job. Can you help me get a job offer there.

I’m glad they’re hiring teachers however, they still need to fix the root of the issue.

It really shows how Filipino people are hardworking people.. The US is fortunate to have Filipino teachers. They are highly qualified..

american s must their children respect look at how disrepectful they are in schools

My charter HS pays higher in California. Hopefully dr. Jill biden will champion her cause for education.

Mabuhay po tayong mga OFW Teachers! 🙌

who bear the $8K sponsorship fee, the teachers or the schools? H1b visa or greencard?

It's very upsetting that the superintendent chose to hire overseas, before even considering increasing existing salaries. Teachers deserve to be well compensated for their time, whether they are overseas or not.

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. Yep! American teachers (thomasites) teaches Filipino children during 1900. Filipinos are just giving back.

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I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL the out of control and redundant OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING is chasing off more educators than anything else

Ref schools is this like no one speaks English. I applied talked directly to AZ schools with multiple degrees and got no where. Horrible schools and worse results.

US SHOULD PROVIDE HOUSING AT LEAST FOR A YEAR!

Oh, the classic case of the elusive, all-knowing teacher who seems to have a knack for evading important inquiries from curious students. It's almost as if they have a secret instruction manual that says, "Thou shall respond with utter disbelief and disregard when faced with intelligent queries." How cunning! It's truly remarkable how teachers manage to transform moments of genuine curiosity into opportunities for self-righteousness. One marvels at their ability to turn a simple question into an elaborate dance routine of dodging responsibility and undermining our oh-so-fragile sense of involvement. Alas, as we strive for knowledge and seek enlightenment in the classroom, we must also learn to navigate this dance floor of academic avoidance. Will our questions ever be acknowledged? We can only hope that one day our teachers will grant us the gift of interaction without reprimand - until then, dear pupil, embrace your inquisitive nature and continue seeking answers beyond the walls of your classroom.

Cheap budget for education but can spend billions for wars ..Korean war..Vietnam war..Somalia..Afghanistan..Iraq