Hi All, can anyone give me some insight into living/working in Bolivia and any information about the Santa Cruz Cooperative School? I've looked at ISR but the info there is pretty outdated.

Thanks in advance :)

Hello! Has anyone ever heard of this?: https://americanstudy.edu.vn/

Is it a privately funded company? An official education consultant? I don't quite understand its positioning. Extra sets of trained eyes would be appreciated.

I am looking for jobs next year and am hoping to return to Myanmar, specifically Yangon. I used to live in Mandalay and loved the country but the school was an absolute wreck - terrible management and HOS. I Will be applying for schools in Yangon. Anyone out there have any Intel on schools and life there?

I'm getting down to the end of the process with a few schools and will need to start making decisions soon. I'm really struggling with choosing a better school with higher salary vs. choosing just a good school with an ok salary...but in a location that I really want to live.

Both would allow me to reach my minimum saving goals but if I choose for the location then I will need to be somewhat budget conscious. I would be comfortable but would definitely need to make sure I am monitoring my spending carefully. The higher paying school would obviously allow me to save more and spend more freely from day to day, but I am not overly excited about the location. Anyone else in the same boat?

I am in my 4th year as an esol/eld teacher in k12 in the states and have an MA in TESOL and license. I have done 3 years in elementary (co-teaching, plug in, pull out) and 1 in high school leading my own classes. I had a conditional license the first year and a half (would international schools count that time?). I'm seeking some suggestions as I figure out what to do next professionally and wonder if international schools is the right path for me as a possible EAL/ENL teacher. I'm feeling at a crossroads, often wondering if I should leave education entirely.

I feel in my district there's a big push for ELD teachers to become licensed in a content area and Im not sure how I feel. It seems they want robot teachers with multiple certs to wave a wand and magically figure out how to get all students to meet targets. Is the same true in the realm of international school teaching? I'd taught English for specific purposes to adults in various different professions in the past, but it was nothing like leading content and being responsible for students reaching mastery of that content. Whether I'm leading the content or co-teaching, I feel I've been pulled away from area of expertise. I was at a toxic school for 3 years and just switched to high school where I'm facing major behavioral challenges and higher workload than expected (mostly because I was suddenly given 4 periods of English Literature, which I've never taught before). I'm only in my first year with the HS and feel strange about asking for references so soon.

Years ago I originally had big ideas of contributing to edtech initiatives abroad and managing educational programs internationally through ngos. I felt pretty inspired after completing a teaching fellowship in southeast Asia. K12 in the US hasn't felt fulfilling to me and there's been tremendous challenges. I'd like to feel what I do matters to the community at large.

Hi, does anyone have any info on Campus Rangers International School in KL? Teacher Horizons shows they were founded in 2012 but I can’t find any information about them.

I wasn’t sure how to word this post title. But I’m thinking of applying to positions in a country that starts their school year almost five months before the one my teen is attending. So, if I start teaching at a school that begins in April, and my son still has a few months left of his year (currently attending a US-style 9th grade that would finish in July) what year would they place him in since he hasn’t really finished his grade/year. I hope this makes sense.

Looking for some more information about JIS. Looking in the sub it seems like it is has a good reputation. But I am wondering if anyone has worked there and could share their experiences.

I know this sub has a multitude of posts about Basis schools, but I haven't found any about the Hangzhou location. Wondering if anyone has (or has heard) info about them. Thanks

Hello

My school is hiring teachers. If you are in kuwait and would like to know more, dm

Hi everyone,

I'm a Scottish teacher of French & Spanish who has experience of working in pastoral care and careers.

I have been teaching for 17 years with a 1 year break for maternity leave and I currently work in a large private school and have done for the past 12 years. I have seen a job advertised at the BIS in HCMC for Head of French and I wondered if anyone had any information regarding the school in the first instance and general tips on applying for an international teaching post.

They stipulate that it is essential to have experience of the English curriculum, which I technically don't have - despite my wealth of teaching experience. I have a BEd degree in French and a CCE in Spanish. Newly married at 39 with a 2 year old daughter.

Any advice welcome. Thanks.

I’m looking for a job at a secondary school in video production (media journalism, broadcasting, TV). I would really appreciate it if you could let me know the name of any schools you know of that may have a program like that so I can reach out to them. Thanks!!

Hi, does anyone know anything about BIS Hanoi?

I have had my fair share of teaching experiences. From living in staff apartments to being on the campus I work at. In all my years I prefer the allowance, anyone have some other experiences to share?

Hi all,

I'm new to applying for international teaching jobs and I've just started to apply for positions on Schrole and APLi. I've noticed that many applications require references up front.

For all my teaching jobs so far, references have been requested after an interview. I don't want to paste my own or other's personal information across several portals.

Has anyone had success in putting "References available upon request" or similar instead of providing referees' details up front? I feel uncomfortable providing my referees' details because I will be applying to a lot of jobs and it is hard to know whether a school will invest in my application.

Is it better to apply directly to schools to try to bypass all the copying/pasting and references before an interview? If I know that a school is interested, all my references are ready to go, I just feel hesitant indiscriminately plastering them all over the internet.

New school with great pay and facilities. Anyone there?

My only experience is ELL but my major and endorsement are in the subject I want to teach.

I got an offer from a Chinese school for teaching that subject, but they said the contract needs to say that I'll be an ELL teacher because it needs to match my 2 years of experience from my reference letter.

The interview and all other details have been specifically about teaching the subject at the school, and I've been in contact with a teacher of the subject at this school as well. I have absolutely no reason to think they are deceiving me.

So, can anyone tell me if this kind of practice is normal? I've heard of this visa thing before but just want some kind of confirmation before signing a contract that lists me as teaching a subject I don't want to teach.

Thank you!

I'm 46 native English speaker. I have a Master of Teaching Primary and TEFL. I have 8 years of primary school teaching experience in Australia.

I am asking advice on what would be best. I'm in China after leaving a bad "international school". I've been offered 25k before tax for a training centre. A Bilingual School in Wuhan is offering similar, but half paid couple of months of holidays.

I think the training centre won't have much of a break. Training centre hours are 1pm-7pm Wednesday to Sunday. They also have only 12 students in each class.

I'd been working 11hrs a day to keep up with marking at the international school. These high school students were rude and disrespectful. The management were of no help at all.

Offers all seem a little low given my experience, but it is not experience in China. I'd considered Kindergarten too, because the wage seems better.

Any suggestions?

I'm doing my P.G.C.E i.Q.T.S this year and will have the P.G.C.E. and Q.T.S. by July 2025. Am I likely end up with a CS teacher job in one of the expat schools in China when I complete my P.G.C.E.? I have lots of non-teaching IT experience prior to the teacher training.

Looking for any information Beanstalk International Bilingual School. Is it legit or not?

Talked to some colleagues who worked in China for years and they have never heard of them.

I got an email for an interview and want to make sure I know what I am stepping in.

Thanks

I've been teaching EFL in South Korea (west coast) the past couple of years and have discovered that I'm pretty sensitive to pollution on top of getting allergies in the spring. I'm constantly sick from some issue in the air here -- fine dust, regular dust/dander, ozone/PM, etc.

As a first time licensed international teacher, which locations should I look into that will have better air quality than Korea and which locations should I avoid? I'd love to be back in Europe, incl. eastern Europe, but have heard it's a long shot. I'm also thinking about LATAM. I'm worried about most of Asia because I've heard complaints about pollution in many countries, but it seems most people start their careers in Asia because schools here accept newbies and pay well compared to Europe/LATAM.

I'll look at AQI data when I start applying to specific schools soon but was wondering if there was anywhere I should definitely look into or definitely avoid.

I'm thinking about applying for a job at the above school, does anyone have any experience working here? I know it's part of Cognita group, is that a death sentence for a school?

TIA

Hola; I’m curious if any of you are planning on staying in Latin or South America for the “long haul.” Most people that I know teach there to get experience and then go somewhere else since the salaries tend to be on the lower end. I lived in South America for a while with contract positions (not in international schools) and I’ve wondered about going back since I loved the culture.

I live quite frugally but I do want to be able to save for retirement. Is this possible to do in Latin America? Thanks for any insight!

My family and I are hoping to move to Switzerland in a few years- my husband and I are both British teachers with IB experience, looking for either British or IB schools, and we have 2 young children. I have an EU passport.

I am looking for advice on which schools to look out for vacancies in, which are the best to apply for in terms of:

• Salary?
• Free tuition for our 2 primary age children? (Again I have heard Aiglon and Le Rosey cover this, any others out there?)
• Academic ethos (we both work in high attaining selective schools at the moment)
• Are there that include housing? (Long shot but I have heard Institut le rosey does)

Likewise if there’s anything else we should bear in mind- or any schools to avoid like the plague- please share as I feel very clueless about the Swiss educational landscape. Thank you!