VERIFIED AMERICAN TEACHERS · THAILAND

True American English.
Verified.

A US degree. A teaching certificate. A background check passed. Native US English. Every teacher on this site has shown all four to a person who checked them — so an international school, a company or a parent can hire at the top of the market without guessing.

ครูอเมริกันตัวจริง — ตรวจสอบวุฒิการศึกษา ใบรับรองการสอน และประวัติอาชญากรรมแล้ว สำหรับโรงเรียนนานาชาติ ติวเตอร์ส่วนตัว และผู้ปกครองในประเทศไทย

I am a teacher

Four checks, then your name is up in front of parents, international schools and employers who came here for exactly this. Free, always. You write your own profile and one email takes it down.

List yourself →

I need a teacher

Parents, international and bilingual schools, universities, companies. Say what you need — ages, hours, where, budget — and we send one to three verified names. No agency, no commission.

Post what you need → · บอกเราว่าต้องการครูแบบไหน

The four checks

"Verified" on this site means a person saw the documents, asked the issuer, and talked to the teacher. Not a checkbox.

1

A US degree

A bachelor's or higher from an accredited American college or university. We see the diploma and the transcript, and we ask the registrar.

2

A teaching certificate

A state teaching license, or a TEFL, TESOL or CELTA of at least 120 hours with real classroom practice. We check it with the issuer.

3

A background check passed

An FBI Identity History Summary or a state police check, dated within the last twelve months. Anything involving children, violence or drugs ends it.

4

Native US English

A US citizen who grew up speaking English in the United States, and a twenty-minute video call with Ben, in English, before the name goes up.

What verified means, check by check →

More than the words

Incredible ESL teachers come from everywhere. This site is for one kind, and it says so in its name.

"We have a brand, USA English, for a reason. It's more than the words. It's our cultural logos."— Ben Cunningham, October 1, 2026

Logos is the old Greek word for both the word and the reason behind it. That is what an American teacher brings into a Thai classroom or a family's living room that a textbook cannot: the way an American classroom argues and asks questions and speaks up; the habit of standing in front of a room and telling a story; the idiom of American business, film, sport and song; the accent that Thai parents ask for by name. The language and the reasons underneath it, together.

Our sister sites are free to every teacher on earth and always will be. This one isolates a single value — a real American degree, a real certificate, a clean record, a native speaker — and checks it, so that a parent in Khon Kaen or a head of school in Bangkok does not have to.

What it is for

International and bilingual schools

Who need a licensed American teacher for a post that starts next term, and need to know the license is real before the interview.

Private tutoring

Families who want their child taught by a native speaker with a real degree, in person in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, Phuket — or online from anywhere in the country.

Companies and universities

Business English, presentation coaching, exam preparation, a semester course — taught by someone who was educated in the system the student is aiming at.

What it costs

Teachers: nothing, ever. Parents and employers: nothing to post, for now.

We are not a recruitment agency. We take no commission on a hire, no cut of anyone's salary or tutoring rate, and we never charge a teacher a baht to list or to read. When a listing fee for employers comes, every baht of it goes into the prize fund for the Isan children's storytelling championship, and the arithmetic is published every season — it will say so on this page before it changes anywhere else.

Who runs it

Ben Cunningham — American, a teacher himself, living in Thailand, hiring for his own family and for the village schools his wife Ploy grew up in. He checks every teacher on this site personally and takes the calls himself. Fifteen minutes, free, before you sign anything.

He is also the first teacher through the checks, with no exception for the founder. His own background report and teaching certificate are in progress now, through the FBI and Moreland University, and every step he has to take is written down on one page so that anyone with a college degree and a clean record can do the same — How to get certified, the way Ben is doing it. We make nothing from it. It is an honest referral to the road we took.

Talk to someone who lives here.

Fifteen minutes with Ben, free, video or in person if you are near Surin. Whether or not you ever list here.

A teacher: bring the offer you are looking at and we go through it — what the package is really worth in that province, what to ask the school in writing, what the warning signs are. A parent or an employer: tell him what you need and he tells you plainly what is realistic and what it costs at the top of the market. There is nothing to buy at the end of it.

Ask for a call →

While the list is new

Status on October 18, 2026: no teacher has yet completed all four checks, so no name is published. The first profile goes up the day its fourth check clears, with the date, and this line changes the same day. That is what an honest launch looks like.

If you are a teacher, list yourself now and you will be among the first names. If you need a teacher, post what you need — we reply to every request, including the ones where the answer is "not yet". In the meantime, the open Thailand job board on ESLteacher.com and the visa and work-permit checklist are already here and free.

เว็บขององค์กรไม่แสวงหากำไร USAEnglish · A USAEnglish non-profit site — Rattanaburi, Surin.

ploy.com เรื่องของพลอย · her story usaenglish.com การแข่งขัน · the championship englishteacher.com แอปของเด็ก · the child's app eslteacher.com งานสอนและใบงาน · jobs and worksheets usaenglishteacher.com ครูอเมริกันที่ตรวจสอบแล้ว · verified American teachers tesolteacher.com หลักสูตร · the course

ใช้ฟรีทุกเว็บ ไม่ขายข้อมูล ถ้าเราแนะนำเว็บของเราเอง เราจะบอกทุกครั้ง — All free. We do not sell your data. When we point you to our own site, we say so.

USAEnglish เป็นองค์กรไม่แสวงหากำไร — องค์กรไม่แสวงหากำไรในประเทศไทย ถือหุ้น 49% โดยองค์กรการกุศล 501(c)(3) ของสหรัฐฯ · พลอยและเบนไม่รับเงินเดือน รับเฉพาะค่าใช้จ่ายจริง · หมายเลขทะเบียนจะเผยแพร่ที่นี่ทันทีที่ได้รับ เพื่อให้ทุกคนตรวจสอบได้ — ระหว่างนี้เขียนมาที่ ben@usaenglish.com เราจะบอกว่าการจดทะเบียนอยู่ขั้นไหน
USAEnglish is run as a non-profit — a Thai non-profit organization, 49% owned by a US 501(c)(3). Ploy and Ben take no salary, only their expenses. Registration numbers will be published here the day they are issued, for anyone to check; until then, write to ben@usaenglish.com and we will tell you where the filing stands.