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JZer
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That makes sense, thank you for explaining. I'll look into it.
As for the pay question... this is not a huge issue for me because its more about the experience, but can someone give me a ball park figure for the average ESL position in Latin America? Just curious. |
The international school may pay $2000-3000 and if you like it you may not want to go back to your job in the U.S. or have to. But if you are living on an ESL job for $500 a month, you may not be very keen on staying there for very long. |
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ls650
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| Or perhaps out in the boonies? (Cuenca, maybe?) |
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Mark Loyd
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On average, international schools pay better than typical overseas TEFL jobs because they generally have stricter requirements.
Here's a very broad definition for you (there are of course exceptions): An "international school" is a K-8 or K-12 or 9-12 English-medium school that has an American or British curriculum. Many of the students are expats of various countries who choose an international school over the local government school system. International schools are private and charge high tuition compared to local schools. In large cities, for example, the top school will be the American International School or the British International School (or their equivalents). Their facilities are quite astonishing, often rivalling counterparts in California or London.
International schools have hiring practices that are often the equivalent of hiring practices in the U.S. and the U.K. That is, teachers need to be certified to teach at the grade level and in the subjects that they will teach abroad -- certified in the U.S. or U.K.
There have been quite a few threads on these forums about international schools. You can easily do a search to find more accurate and current information than I can provide. |
International schools have stricter requirements you say Henry Cowell. Since our beloved TEFL has almost no requirements other than its dross being native speakers and working for pathetic pay and conditions that does not say much for stricter requirements. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Mark Loyd wrote: |
| International schools have stricter requirements you say Henry Cowell. |
Not only does this troll follow me from thread to thread, but he doesn't even quote me properly -- even after I taught him how to use the quote function here on Dave's ESL Cafe forums. |
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Justin Trullinger
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Justin Trullinger wrote:
Or perhaps out in the boonies? (Cuenca, maybe?)
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Did you go? Cuenca's awfully pretty, and you can live on a heck of a lot less there than in the bigger cities in Ecuador. Of course, salaries being what they are, you kind of have to...but I've heard CEDEI in Cuenca is a good job.
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ls650
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| A few weeks after an interview, they offered me a position starting in October 04, but by then I'd already accepted my current job. |
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