Status on November 4, 2026: no teacher has yet completed all four checks, so no verified name is published. The founder’s own profile shows his checks as they clear. The first verified profile goes up the day its fourth check clears, with the date, and this line changes the same day.
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/CELTA of at least 120 hours with supervised practice, or a graduate degree in TESOL or education. 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.
How long it takes. Verification usually takes two to three weeks once your documents are in; we reply to every message within a few days.
Prefer email? ben@usaenglish.com — the same questions.
The first profile: Ben Cunningham, the founder — checks shown as they clear
Every profile follows the layout below. None has cleared all four checks yet, so none carries the "Verified" line.
| First name and last initial · Verified · month and year |
|---|
| Degree: subject, university · Certificate: type · Background check: type, year · Native US English: the state the teacher grew up in; video call with Ben |
| Now: city · Available from: month · Wants to teach: ages, kind of school, where in Thailand; in person or online |
| Three to five sentences in the teacher's own words — the part parents and schools actually read. |
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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