If you hold a real US degree, a teaching certificate and a clean record, you are what international schools, companies and parents here ask for by name — and what every other board makes you prove over and over. Prove it once, here, to a person. Then your name is up.
All four, no exceptions. This is the whole value of the site, so it is strict on purpose.
A bachelor's or higher from an accredited American college or university. We see the diploma and the transcript, and we ask the registrar.
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.
An FBI Identity History Summary or a state police check, dated within the last twelve months. Anything involving children, violence or drugs ends it.
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.
How each one is checked, what qualifies and what fails: What verified means →
The form below goes to Ben. He replies himself, asks for the documents, checks them, and sends your profile back for you to approve. Nothing is published until you have seen it and said yes.
Do not attach documents here. He will ask for them by email once he has read this, he looks at them, and he keeps one line — "degree confirmed with [university], [date]" — and nothing else. The scans are deleted.
Prefer email? ben@usaenglish.com — the same questions.
An example, not a real teacher — so you can picture the page before you write yours.
| Sarah K. · Verified October 2026 |
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| Degree: B.A. English, University of Texas at Austin · Certificate: Texas standard teaching certificate, EC–6 · Background check: FBI Identity History Summary, 2026 · Native US English: grew up in Austin, Texas; video call with Ben |
| Now: Khon Kaen · Available from: May 2027 · Wants to teach: primary, international or bilingual school, Khon Kaen or Bangkok; private tutoring online |
| "I taught third grade in Austin for four years before moving to Thailand with my husband. I like a noisy room and a story a day. I am happiest with children who have just started reading." |
No email, phone or LINE ID is ever shown; a parent or school writes to us and we pass it on.
| We publish | We never publish |
|---|---|
| Your first name and last initial, unless you tell us to use your full name | Your email address, phone number or LINE ID — people reach you through us until you choose otherwise |
| "Verified" with the date, and the four checks as one line each: degree (subject, university), certificate (type), background check (type, year), native US English | Your documents, your transcript, the check itself, your home address, passport details or date of birth |
| Where you are now, when you could start, who you want to teach and where | Anything you did not write yourself |
| Your own three to five sentences | A photograph, unless you ask us to include one |
One email takes you down. Write to us and your profile is gone the same day. You do not have to give a reason, and we do not keep a copy.
We do not sell, rent or share your details with anyone — not with schools, not with agencies, not with anybody. Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act applies to us and we intend to be on the right side of it, but frankly we would do this anyway.
A warning that matters more than anything else on this site. Never pay a fee to get a job, never hand your passport to a recruiter, and never start work on a tourist visa on a promise that the paperwork will be sorted later. If an offer breaks any of those three rules, walk away, and tell us about it so we can warn the next person.
No certificate yet, or no background report yet. The page that shows the road Ben is on — the FBI report, Moreland University's nine-month online certificate that leads to a US state license (pay by the month), what it costs all in, and what we make from it, which is nothing. The ten-week TEFL/TESOL course in Udon Thani, which practices you in real Thai classrooms, also counts: TESOLteacher.com →
Not American, or no degree. This site is for one kind of teacher, on purpose. Our other sites are for everyone: the Isan village volunteer track (no degree needed), the worksheets, the open Thailand job board on ESLteacher.com, which has no nationality filter at all.
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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.