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