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TOPICS

How to become a teacher in the U.S., steps in ordering food in a restaurant, to

walk the walk and talk the talk, constraint versus restraint, monkey business, on

a regular basis

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GLOSSARY

reciprocal – with two people or groups of people behaving in the same way

toward each other or helping each other; agreement to do or accept the same

thing

* The two countries have a reciprocal arrangement where they each send the

other country food if the people don’t have enough to eat.

credential – qualification, especially for a new job, such as degrees, certificates,

work experience, or languages spoken

* He has excellent academic credentials, but he doesn’t have very much work

experience.

postbaccalaureate – relating to academic courses taken after one has earned

one’s undergraduate (bachelor’s) degree

* After Saida earned her degree in nutrition, she started to take

postbaccalaureate courses in psychology.

practicum – internship; unpaid or low-paying work experience for a short period

of time while one is a student

* She is studying computer science and last summer she completed a practicum

at a nearby computer chip company.

basic skills – subjects that everyone needs to study in school, such as reading,

writing, and mathematics

* Students need to have a strong foundation in basic skills before they can begin

to understand more complicated subjects.

host/hostess – a restaurant employee who greets customers, takes them to

their table, gives them menus, and brings them drinks

* We asked the hostess for a table by the window, but she explained that they

were all reserved for a birthday party.

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server – waiter/waitress; a restaurant employee who takes one’s order and

brings one’s food to the table

* Our server accidentally spilled the tomato soup when he was putting the bowl

on the table.

split charge – an extra fee charged by a restaurant when two or more people

share a meal

* I don’t understand why the restaurant added a split charge when we each

ordered a main dish.

diner – a person who eats at a restaurant; a restaurant customer

* On average, how many of your diners order dessert?

to walk the walk and talk the talk – to do as one says; to do what one tells

other people to do; to act as one says one believes

* Many people say that they believe it’s important to give money to charity, but

few of us actually walk the walk and talk the talk.

constraint – limitation; something that makes it difficult or impossible for one to

do something

* We have passports, money, and the desire to travel, but our biggest constraint

against going on a longer trip is that we don’t have very much vacation time this

year.

restraint – limitation ; a rule or idea that prevents one from doing something;

something used to control a person’s behavior

* The Mormon church has restraints on drinking beverages with caffeine.

monkey business – dishonest or silly behavior

* I’m so tired of reading about the government’s monkey business being paid for

with our tax dollars!

on a regular basis – regularly; frequently; often; periodically

* They have department-wide meetings on a regular basis.

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

Detention in TV and Movies

In the United States, students who “misbehave” (act inappropriately) at school

are often “sent to detention,” meaning that for a certain period of time during a

break, at lunchtime, or after school, they have to sit quietly in a classroom while

other students have “free time” (time when they can choose what they want to

do). Detention is a “light” (not very serious) punishment. If students in detention

continue to misbehave, they may be “suspended” (temporarily not allowed to

come to school) or “expelled” (not allowed to come to school ever again).

Often students are told to study during detention. Sometimes they are given

special assignments, like writing an essay about what they did wrong, or writing a

sentence like, “I should not talk during class,” 500 times on a piece of paper. At

some schools, students in detention are supposed to clean the classroom or the

school.

Many American movies are about detention. Probably the most famous

detention-related movie is The Breakfast Club , where five students with very

different “backgrounds” (experiences and interests) are sent to detention and

have to spend all day Saturday together. In a movie called Some Kind of

Wonderful, a student tries to get into detention to spend extra time with a girl he

likes, but then the girl “gets out of” (avoids a punishment) detention and he is

there without her. In the popular “animated” (with drawings instead of people) TV

show The Simpsons , Bart Simpson is in detention at the beginning of every show

and writes funny sentences on the chalkboard, like “I will not drive the principal’s

car.”

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 110.

This is the English Café episode one-one-zero (110). I’m your host, Dr. Jeff

McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in

beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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In this Café, we’re going to talk about how you become a teacher in the United

States. We’ve talked about different occupations – different jobs – in previous

cafes, and how you get those jobs in the U.S., what kind of education and

training you need. Today, we’ll talk about teachers. We’ll also talk little bit about

what happens when you have a meal in a restaurant in the United States. It’s not

always the same, in different countries, what happens during the meal, so we’ll

talk a little bit about that. As always, we’ll answer a few of your questions as

well. Let’s get started.

Our first topic today is how to become a teacher in the United States, specifically

how to become a teacher for the elementary, or grade school, as well as the high

school, or secondary level. Teachers in the U.S. must receive a license in most

states in order to be able to teach in a public school. There are also teacher

licenses for what we would call “preschool.” These are programs for children

who are younger than first grade.

Teachers are licensed, like many different occupations – many different jobs – by

each individual state. There is no U.S. national teaching license. Each state you

work in has its own license, and when you move from one state to another, you

often have to get an additional license or take some additional training in order to

teach in that state. Many states, however, have what’s called “reciprocal

agreements.” “Reciprocal” (reciprocal) means that both people, or both states

will act the same toward each other – give each other the same rights. So, if I

have a license in Minnesota and I want to teach in Iowa – a different state – and

they have a reciprocal agreement, that means that I can go to Iowa and teach,

and I don’t need any additional coursework – any additional education – to get

that Iowa license.

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In all of the U.S. states you are required, to become a teacher, to first get a

bachelor’s degree. This is the four-year Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Sciences

degree; this is the minimum requirement for becoming a teacher in the U.S.

Back many years ago, the requirement for becoming a teacher was much lower.

You only needed usually two years of education, and you would go to a special

school, what we used to call a “normal school,” and this was a place where

teachers would get their education in order to become regular classroom

teachers. Many of the great public universities in the United States began in the

19 th century as teacher colleges – as two-year colleges. As the country grew,

and as the need for higher education increased, these colleges were made

bigger – they were expanded – and eventually the requirements for becoming a

teacher became greater and greater.

I said earlier that each state in the United States has its own rules – its own

license. This is something that is often surprising to people from other countries.

They think that if you live in California, you’d do the same things you would do if

you lived in New York to become, for example, a teacher, but that’s not true. In

some states, you only need a bachelor’s degree with a specialization, what we

would call a “major” or a “minor,” in education. And so, during those four years of

your bachelor’s degree you take courses in education and you do the other

training required. In other states, such as California, you have to get your

bachelor’s degree first, and then you have to go to one or two more years of

schooling in order to get a teaching license, what we would call a “teaching

credential” (credential). The word “credential” means qualifications or a

certificate that says that you can do a certain thing, in this case, that you can

teach.

The teaching license in California requires you go an additional two years – one

to two years – after you complete your bachelor’s degree. We call this a

“postbaccalaureate program.” “Postbaccalaureate” comes from the word

“bachelor,” as in “bachelor’s degree”; “post” is after, so after your bachelor’s

degree.

In some states, you can get a master’s degree. A master’s degree usually

requires one to three years of additional education. For example, when I got my

teaching license back in Minnesota, I had a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and in

history. I then went to get my teaching license in a postbaccalaureate program,

but I also decided to get a master’s degree at the same time. So during the year

and a half that I studied, I got a master’s degree and I got a teaching license.

Most states don’t require a master’s degree in order to teach; as I say, each state

is different.

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