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southerngirl
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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:38 am Post subject: Native Speakers in Abu Dhabi Public Schools |
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Hi All,
Does anyone have any firsthand information about working in Abu Dhabi Public Schools? Workload? Administration ? red tape? Motivation/behavior of students?
Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| You'll definitely need to be licensed/certified (relevant to your degree major) and have a minimum of 2 years of public school teaching from your home country. Take a look at Teach Away's site since they do the majority of recruiting for ADEC and ADVETI. Additionally, if you do Internet searches on ADVETI forum and ADEC forum, you'll find several active discussion sites on both entities. |
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southerngirl
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Hi
What about a teaching license from the USA, but 3 years in an accredited international school? Thanks for the website info.
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| southerngirl wrote: |
| What about a teaching license from the USA, but 3 years in an accredited international school? |
In addition to the license from your home country, they require teachers to already have experience from an IB or US, UK, Oz... curriculum school. In other words, they're not interested in newbies who expect to learn on the job. |
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southerngirl
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| Got it, I am not a classroom newbie, but ironically, have been working for a British school abroad...thanks |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Teachaway had a facebook page for teachers. Check out if it is still there and you can hopefully connect with current teachers. We have very few members here who are in K-12 (most ME jobs are for adults).
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bdbarnett1
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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ADEC sucks. Worked here for four years and am leaving this July. Like working in a beaurocratic nightmare.
Probably not the only place in the region like that, so do what you want  |
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veiledsentiments
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From what we have heard here... which isn't that much since most teachers here work with adults... ADEC positions vary depending on where you are placed. That variance is from tolerable for a contract or two to not even tolerable for one contract...
Luck of the draw...
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bdbarnett1
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
From what we have heard here... which isn't that much since most teachers here work with adults... ADEC positions vary depending on where you are placed. That variance is from tolerable for a contract or two to not even tolerable for one contract...
Luck of the draw...
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Yes, it varies considerably, but the organizational level crap has really been on the rise lately. |
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