| Currently there is a shortage of experienced teachers | | | | overseas. Even though it is a country that may seem |
| to fill key jobs in the United Kingdom. This could be | | | | quite similar to your own and they may speak the |
| your opportunity to springboard your teaching career | | | | same language as you, you will experience culture |
| into the international school sector. | | | | shock, and hopefully enjoy learning its eccentricities. |
| If you are looking at getting yourself a teaching job | | | | Additionally, while you are in the UK acquiring the |
| abroad at an international school but have not yet | | | | experience to launch yourself into international school |
| been able to land a contract, you could sneak your | | | | teaching, you can take advantage of the UK's |
| way in through the back door. | | | | proximity to Europe and the plethora of low-cost |
| In nearly every country in the world you can find an | | | | airlines that have sprung up in recent years. |
| international school that offers the British National | | | | When you are ready to apply for your first |
| Curriculum. All of these schools are looking for | | | | international school teaching position you will be able to |
| teachers with recent experience teaching in the UK. | | | | attend one or more of the job fairs run by Search |
| With recent experience teaching the British | | | | Associates and ECIS and held in London each year. |
| examination courses for GCSE (Grade 9) and | | | | Many international schools interested in employing |
| A-Levels (Grade 12), you will have a resume that | | | | educators with UK experience attend these job fairs in |
| recruiters for British schools will be very interested in | | | | London. |
| and they will be lining up to interview you. The same | | | | When I attended a job fair in London, after teaching in |
| follows for elementary school teachers who are | | | | the UK for three years, I had 13 schools wanting to |
| familiar with the key stages set out in the UK National | | | | interview me. I could have got a teaching job in the |
| Curriculum. | | | | United Arab Emirates, Germany, Qatar, France, the |
| Search Associates, one of the largest recruitment | | | | Netherlands, China, Hong Kong or Thailand. I chose |
| organisations dealing with international schools even | | | | Thailand and I've been here for 3 years now. |
| has a separate branch that specialises in placing | | | | You can check out what vacancies there are in British |
| teachers with UK experience in British International | | | | schools right now by searching for jobs in your |
| schools. | | | | specialism on the TES Jobs website. This is the one |
| I recently interviewed an American teacher who | | | | stop shop for all vacancies in England. You can also |
| launched her career in international schools after a | | | | find a definitive list of jobs in international schools in their |
| year spent teaching the British National Curriculum at a | | | | database as well! |
| grammar school just west of London. Since then she | | | | For visa requirements, check out the website for the |
| has gone on to teach in 3 international schools in 2 | | | | British Embassy in your country. If you are a young |
| countries that offered the UK curriculum. She has now | | | | teacher, make sure you look to see if the UK offers |
| spent more time teaching the British curriculum than the | | | | working holiday visas to people in your country, you |
| American one she originally trained for! | | | | can apply for one of those without having to get a job |
| Teaching in the UK has many benefits, it can be a | | | | first. If you already have a visa you are going to be |
| clever way to ease yourself into living and working | | | | even more attractive to school principals! |