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Noelle · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 361 Location: USA

I have an M.A. in TESOL and 3+ years experience in the U.S., China and Korea. I've been wanting to come to Indonesia for several years and just wondered if there would be any good legitimate jobs for me.

I am not really interested in working with children. High school would be as young as I'd care to go.

Can anyone offer any advice?

benbobaggins · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 60 Location: Jakarta

Hi,
I think with your qualifications you would easily find a good job.

The pay isn't the best in Indonesia, Middle East is more, but it's very cheap so you can save alot if you want to. I save about $1,000 a month now, and live a very comfortable life.

Good luck.

Noelle · Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 361 Location: USA

Thanks for the response.

What kinds of jobs should I be on the lookout for in Indonesia? Is there any way to escape teaching kids in Indonesia?

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

Depends what you mean by kids. If you don't mind the senior high age group there are usually a few decent jobs every year in the better national plus schools at that level.

If you have QT status as well then the international schools are well worth a punt.

Look back through the archive of this thread and note down the names of schools that turn up again and again like a bad penny, avoid them like the plague, and you shouldn't go wrong.

evegoodmon · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Jakarta

Wrong. Its always the good schools that get trashed by the bad teachers on this website.

beefer · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 238 Location: java

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

TEAM_PAPUA · Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 1679 Location: HOLE

Michael_Indonesia · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

evegoodmon · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Jakarta

I'll give you three. Singapore International School, Raffles International and St. Laurensia.

All are established schools with a proffessional ethos and progressive curriculums. If you look in this forum you would be discouraged from applying for a job at any of these schools.

ezekiel · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 79 Location: Indonesia

Bad schools here generally get what they deserve..closed down!

TEAM_PAPUA · Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 1679 Location: HOLE

Henry_Cowell · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 3352 Location: Berkeley

With an MA in TESOL, you might want to market yourself to the teacher-training colleges (generically known as IKIP) and other schools of higher education, especially if you don't want to teach children and teenagers.