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runningaway · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 14

Bachelor of Education (secondary)
Bachelor of Arts (English and History)
Teaching for seven years.

Where could I get a job?
What kind of money?
Accommodation?

Aren't I succinct?

TIA

Very Happy

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Do you have a teaching certificate/license from your home country?

What is it that you are planning to teach? Without something like a CELTA, you couldn't teach EFL...

If you have your cert/lic, you could look at the local international schools... beware... there are a handful of good ones, more that are not...

VS

boundforsaudi · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 243

Of course she has a teaching cert. Can't get a BEd in sec ed without one. I'd hire her based on just her English major before I'd hire some bozo with CELTA or DELTA on top of some friggin degree in business or something. But lots of employers will value her BEd. It certifies her as a bona fide liberal, and that's about all a CELTA does.

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Of course she could teach EFL without a CELTA or something.

runningaway · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 14

So, which international schools are the good ones in Oman?

I'm a bloke, btw. Laughing

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

desultude · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 614

If you can manage it, go to the TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai in a couple of weeks. I don't know if the international schools hires there, but all of the universities do.

A job in the Middle East (Gulf) can be hard to land the first time- after that, with your credentials, it should be easy.

I have always envied those eligible for international school jobs!

eslbear · Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 93

The OP may be able to teach ESL, although the B.Ed doesn't cover that area but he can't get a job in Oman without something. Maybe at the tertiary level but the institutional / vocational jobs through the Ministry of Manpower insist on an ESL certification.

Anyway, the best jobs are at the international schools - the three best being ABA, TAISM and the British School - the Sultan school is a very close fourth. After that, it drops off sharply.

ABA and TAISM often recruit through the job fairs but you can apply directly - google it and get started.....

eslbear

runningaway · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 14

I've looked at ABA and TAISM so far. ABA need to work on their website. Perhaps I could offer my assistance... Laughing

During my purusal, I haven't noticed anything about money. Anybody know what the pay's like at these schools?

This is fun...

Thanks for the information guys!

15yearsinQ8 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 462 Location: kuwait

with the OP's quals, they'd get a much better non EFL job than an efl job

the discussion on this board seems to be always biased in favor of the celta (3 month shake and bake course ) over a bona fide education degree that builds up to a 4 month full time student teaching stint
big difference, duh
the OPs skills sets in classroom management and management of material delivery, assessment, etc etc etc are probably head and shoulders over some lame degree and a celta ( and 3 years exp at a language institute where lessons are 1 hours 3 times a week which to a real teacher is the pre-noon shift on one day - yup tee do!)

these agruments have been played out many times on other branches

the OP would have little problem landing a international school job - to hell with esl - go for real teaching

what will follow are the worms crawling out of the can i have opened
or the pull top of the 'whoop ass' can being pulled open by some wanna be teachers
go ahead, make my day

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

15yearsinQ8,

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you make some very sensible points.

An Education degree, or a degree and a POst Graduate Certifice in Education OUGHT to be worth far more than a CELTA or CTEFLA (same thing but in its earlier incarnation), but only, of course, so far as teaching techniques are concerned. Many of the stakeholders in recruiting, however, simply do not know the value of these different qualifications - like, for example, in Britain, where an American "Teacher's Licence" sounds little better than a guarantee that you cannot do major damage to a class.

For specifically teaching EFL (however defined) then the CTEFLA/CELTA gives you a few tips of the trade, but anyone who is serious really ought to take a Diploma, or a Masters Degree.