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stoth1972 · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: Department of Defense Schools

Anybody have any experience working with DoD schools? What are the packages like?

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Are they anything like International Schools?

stoth1972 · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject:

No, unfortunately not, it would seem. DoD schools serve military families, I believe. I don't think they're open to anyone else, unlike many international schools, which open their doors to certain students.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Is there a website we could look at? Which country's DoD are you talking about?

stoth1972 · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject:

http://www.dodea.edu/home/index.cfm

US Department of Defense..this is their site.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

It's not working for me, maybe it's blocked in Peru. I would assume that it would be similar to International school benefits.

stoth1972 · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

Those are my thoughts, though since you'd be a federal employee, I would assume you have to pay taxes in the US (a drawback if people go overseas to save $$). Just wondering, aside from a pension and social security, what this offers above and beyond the avg. international school.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I'm sure that you would have to be a certified teacher with atleast two years. Why don't you simpoly apply and see what they offer?

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:00 am Post subject:

It's actually not for me. A friend of mine has decided that this sounds like the best deal going for teaching abroad. I suspect that taxes and teaching American military brats likely degrades the value of the contract, but I was hoping that someone had first-hand, or even 2nd hand knowledge of what the packages looked like. They're not easy jobs to get, from what I've heard, and you can only apply to a region: after that, they decide where you go. Thanks for the input!

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I still think that your friend shoudl apply and see what happens. Just because you apply doesn't mean that you'll get the job.

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

My concern is that this is the only place she believes to be worth applying, and is therefore passing up job postings with excellent schools. I'm trying to find out as much as possible, so that she might open herself up to some other great jobs. Hence, coming on here looking for some details about DoD.

TravellingAround · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 423

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the input, travellingaround. She has ESL experience overseas, though she's a K-6 qualified Bilingual Language Arts teacher, also certified to teach K-12 PE, with two years of experience in the US in a border town w/ Mexico.

TravellingAround · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 423

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject:

Those are all my thoughts. We both taught in Cairo at one point, and the best gig in town for a qualified American teacher, Cairo American College, had fantastic packages, and no tax! I've steered her in the general direction of the TES, also. I can't imagine these DoD schools are paying too much more than the best American school internationally, but I can't say that definitely. Thanks for the links.