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09goshen09
Joined: 12 Apr 2009
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Location: London UK
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Lots of interesting information.
I have applied to a couple of schools in Ghana and ME. Will see how that goes. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003
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Location: home sweet home
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He has a degree is business and marketing, a few years sales experience with a little marketing involved. This is another reason why I had thought about the ME or US, as I am not sure that the job opportunites exist for him in other parts of the world.
I need to be able to earn enough to send some money home and live relatively well. I am not at all an extravagant spender. |
While jobs may exist, visas might be the issue. Speaking from experience. I could get my Peruvian husband a resident visa in the majority of the countries I've looked at in Asia and the ME, however, that visa doesn't allow him to work. Not even private classes in most cases. The biggest issue we're facing is what HE would do when we go abroad. IN your case, however, your husband could stay home and take care of your child.
| DrVanNostrand wrote: |
A few (negative  ) things:
1. An October/November start date just doesn't seem feasible. I couldn't imagine a school paying for a sub until you were able to start; especially not in this market where there seems to be an abundance of teachers and a shortage of positions. The vast majority of schools aren't in such a bind that they'd make such huge concessions to fill their vacancies. So, you either start when they start or odds are you don't start at all.
2. Non-teaching dependents are a hinderance in many cases when it comes to international schools, but they shouldn't preclude you from landing a teaching position if you're flexible. |
1. Though you could contact schools, because there are sometimes teachers that quit. So contact schools a couple months after they start. theough then they tend to recruit locally.
2. In a couple schools in LA, I've seen that they mainly ONLY recruit single teachers or teaching couples. After that would come couples where one spouse doesn't teach and it's usually the man that's the teacher. BUt that's just Latin America |
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DrVanNostrand
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
1. Though you could contact schools, because there are sometimes teachers that quit. So contact schools a couple months after they start. theough then they tend to recruit locally.
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True, but you can't bank on or anticipate those vacancies. You just have to hope one pops up, and then, in the event that one does, you have to get it.
If I were the OP, I would do two things:
1. Make myself available to start the beginning of the school year.
2. Open myself up to all regions that I'm willing to work in.
There just aren't enough jobs out there to limit oneself in the manner that she seems to be doing.
Granted, she could very well could find a job going about her business just as she has started, but her odds would be much, much better if she opened herself up to more opportunities.
Just my opinion.
Good luck! |
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