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[djpoole]

Hi,

I will be teaching Art in an English Language summer school. What are the possibilites in doing this in other schools, possibly abroad??? I can also teach Art History as well.

[saint57]

I'd say you could teach art at an international school, but the regular qualifications for such a position would still apply.

[djpoole]

By 'regular qualifications' do you mean a PGCE??

[saint57]

Yes, but most will also require at least two years of experience in your own country.

[robinnn]

Hi,

Recently ran into a posting for a job teaching art in high schools in Tokyo, no formal qualifications needed. This kind of job is pretty hard to come by though. Check gaijinpot.com

[Jetgirly]

I have a friend who is an Art Education major (we're last-semester B.Ed students) and she was selected from a group of ten applicants to teach English with an NGO in Uganda for the next eight months. They chose her specifically for her art skills and I imagine there is the expectation she will incorporate art into her EFL classes.

[SocratesSon2]

Wow, now I degree can make you an artist too, will the miracles never cease

[denise]

I know this post is several months old now, but if the OP is still out there, I just saw an ad on the jobs page here for an art teacher in Chile. I can't give you any details because, since I'm not and don't want to be an art teacher, I didn't open and read it.

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[GambateBingBangBOOM]

Sometimes regular Oral Communication English teachers in Private High Schools in Japan are asked to teach courses like Art in English to students who are in an art stream. But the job is very rarely going to be advertised as such (other than at a magnet school, or an immersion school- and even in an immersion school they rarely have foreigners teach core material, they have locals with teaching licenses for the country or area do it)- they get the teacher to teach English and what they know. If the teacher happens to know about art and be good at it (usually this means has a degree in art) then they may be asked to teach it. If the teacher has a degree in science, then they may be asked to teach science in English.

The key bit that many people who do this kind of thing often seem to forget is that in these cases, the point is really an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) class, not really a content class (unless you are a specialist in some area that Japan- or wherever you are- doesn't have and for whatever reason they feel their students really need to know it) because they don't really need to import people to teach high school level subject material, other than things like native pronounciation in English. So you are almost always teaching them things that they already know in their own language, sometimes it will be right after they learned it in their own language, sometimes it will be working at up to a year behind where they are to review the previous year's material at the same time as learning vocabulary and practicing English. So if you teach Art History, it won't be very advanced (unless you are doing all this in a university setting).