NuestroJuan
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 21 Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:00 pm Post subject: Two MAs - Where Should We Look? |
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Dear All,
Greetings from the States. My girlfriend and I are planning on getting married and finding work for the coming autumn. I'm completing my MA in TESOL (in-person classes), and she has had the same MA for about a year now. My girlfriend has four years of English teaching experience in French public schools, and she has been tutoring L1 and L2 writing, at the university and graduate level, for about three years now. She's actually interested in pursuing a Ph.D in second language writing after she gains some more teaching experience. I taught English in Azerbaijani public school for two years with the US Peace Corps, and I taught kids, teenagers, and adults for about three years at language centers in Baku, Azerbaijan and Kazan, Russia. Here in the States, I've taught Mexican university students and adults for an exchange program, and I've been at my current job, teaching ESL and science to unaccompanied minors from Central America, for a little over two years.
So, that's our background information, and we're currently looking for work just about anywhere where we can make a decent living. We're both interested in teaching at the university level. For my girlfriend, she can go with high school at the youngest, and I can be a bit more flexible about age, depending on job prospects. We would like to make at least a couple grand a month and have some vacation time during the year. My impression of the Middle East is that Saudi Arabia is kind of a "go-to" for work with little experience after an MA. I don't know if the situation is guaranteed to be that way, but we will just need to look. We are more interested in countries more liberal than the KSA (Liberal's a bit of a relative term in this region, anyway.), but we'll just need to see what's out there. Also, is work opening up in Morocco? I just read that on another thread.
I hope this isn't asking too much, and any insight on where we should look would be greatly appreciated. I also apologize if this is the thousandth time you all have seen a question like this. Whatever the case, I very much appreciate your time.
I'll be making similar posts in other forums. Sorry for the redundancy.
Take care.
NuestroJuan |
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