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[philipjames]

Hello, I would like to teach in the U.A.E.. I have a Masters Degree and have taught English in Korea for nine years. I'm ready for a new experience. I contacted 'Teach Away' but they said Mid-East jobs require a teacher's certificate - which I don't have. Are they correct, or is just the schools that Teach Away deals with that require a teacher's certificate?

Can anyone recommend a recruiter and/or school that I might contact concerning work in the UAE?

Thank you kindly in advance,
Jameson

[ckhl]

teaching certificate not required, BUT...if you want any decent job, I hope that Master's is in EFL/Applied Linguistics. Otherwise, forget it.

[veiledsentiments]

The Teachaway jobs do require a teaching certificate... as do all the best jobs with international schools in all of the Gulf.

VS

[adorabilly]

If you want to teach primary or secondary at ANY school in the UAE a us/uk/austrailian teaching license is required. Full stop. This isn't like china, korea or many other countries that if you are "close enough" it works. They demand the teaching license.

Now with an MA and teaching experience it is possible you can get tertiary positions with HCT, ECAE and a few other positions depending on what the MA is in.

[PeterWilliams]

While it may be true of the Teachaway positions, am not sure it is true of all of the PPP schools. I suspect that NordAnglia and CFBT do not have this requirement. For the tertiary sector, previous posters are correct and you will need a Masters in Applied Linguistics.

[Pikgitina]

[adorabilly]

[Asda]

...basically the subject you are applying to teach?

[antonia v]

"Where doth one look for work in the UAE?"

Should the question not be "Where doth one looketh for work in the UAE?"?

[MrScaramanga]

http://careers.tesol.org/search/browse/

http://chronicle.com/jobSearch?contextId=5&searchQueryString=&facetClear=1&search_sortedBy=publicationDate+DESC&facetName=jobadposition&facetValue=1&facetCaption=Faculty/%20research

http://jobcentral.actfl.org/search/browse/

http://linguistlist.org/jobs/browse-job-current-rs-1.html

Good luck!
MrS

[philipjames]

Thank you for your responses. By the way, my Masters is in History.

Jameson.

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Might I quoteth:

Useless, useless...

J.W. Booth, 1865.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/booth.htm

As a historian, you'll appreciate this!

NCTBA (A formerly stymied historian...)

[Asda]

is it an historian, because you say an historic...?

[johnslat]

Dear Asda,

Depends:

This is a contested question.

Let's start with the basics. A word starting with a vowel sound is preceded by "an," no matter how it's spelled. Thus, one would write "an hour" and "an honest woman." A word starting with a strongly stressed "h" sound is preceded by "a." Thus, to most Americans, it's "a hanger" and "a helicopter."

There are two questions at issue here. The first is what one ought to do with a weakly pronounced "h." Some�this editor included�would precede it with "an"; others�and this is increasingly preferred�precede it with "a." The second question is how you yourself pronounce "historian." In general, words in which the "h" has been dropped have been shifting toward having it pronounced strongly, but only you know how you pronounce this one. If you drop the "h" entirely when saying "historian," then precede it with "an." If you pronounce it with a strongly stressed "h," then use "a." If you pronounce it with a very faint "h," then do whatever seems more natural.

It's worth remembering that the reason why "an" is used before vowels is because it's hard to go straight from "a" to another vowel sound without having them run into one another. Native speakers of English almost never use the wrong one, at least in speech. Say it out loud before you write it, and trust your instincts."

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/vs.html

I'm sure NCTBA has strong instincts.

Regards,
John

[zooey]

Yes you are right John, (as usual) it depends.
However, to hear Americans discussing aspirated and unaspirated H's makes me wonder about the very qualifications of those who talk about erbs and erbal tea. (so amusing to us Brits) Have they perchance been influenced by the patios of Jamaican immigrants to the Land of the Free?

Of course we do have some home-grown isolated dialectical aspiration aberrations:
Just you wait Enry Iggins, just you wait!
You'll be sorry, but your tears'll be too late!
You'll be broke and I'll have money. Will I elp you? Don't be funny.
Just you wait, Enry Iggins, just you wait!...