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[Ger]

Have any of you worked at UTAHLOY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ZENGCHENG? www.utahloy.com/uiszc


I applied to work there once, but because I don't have Baccalaureate teaching qualifications, I only have a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (specialising in teaching English to secondary school Chinese learners) my application was rejected out of hand.

How do you get a Baccalaureate qualification?

[Anda]

It can only mean teacher certification. They want a teaching degree plus certification in your home state / province.


The other thing is they might want you to be able to teach a range of subjects.


Baccalaureate
A baccalaureate qualification is one which is made up of a range of different subjects or different areas of study. Many countries offer Baccalaureate qualifications and so there are a variety of qualification frameworks which share this name. Amongst existing and proposed models, UK teachers will find the following of interest:

[And Your Bird Can Sing]

It is not 'only teacher certification', Anda. IB training is in addition to QTS in your home state, and it must be paid for, either by yourself or your employer (though there are not always places available for self-funding, non-IB school teachers). The IBO (International Baccalaureate Organisation) runs IB training courses at different levels (level 1, level 2,. etc.) at different locations (usually quite exotic). I fall under their Asia Pacific Region and so completed by basic (Level 1) IB training in Singapore, and my post-basic training (Level 2) in Sri Lanka.

http://www.ibo.org/ibap/workshops/

[sojourner]

Normally, to teach in an international school - at least one that happens to follow a syllabus based on a Western country's state education system - a prospective teacher needs a minimum of a Bachelor's degree, a proper teaching qualification (eg PGCE/Grad.Dip.Ed./B.Tchg, etc), as well as teacher registration in one's own country, and a couple of years experience.

But, nowadays, it appears that more and more international schools are opting to follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) syllabus, rather than that of a Western country's education system. If that is the case with the school that the OP referred to, that particular school might think that an FT with, say, a PGCE, might be too focused on the UK education system; and , thus, probably unable to adapt to the IB philosophy of education, approach to teaching, etc. without any additional (IB) training

The OP might be well advised to do a google search for the IB site in order to ascertain how one can become an IB teacher .

Peter

[And Your Bird Can Sing]

He doesn't need to Google it; I provided the relevant page in my post above. The IB 'training' (no matter whether for IBPY, IBMY, or IBD) takes the form of short workshops, usually conducted over the course of two or three days. You will usually need to have QTS in order to attend such IB training and priority goes to those who work at an IB World School and whose employers put them forward for the training.

[GeminiTiger]

I read
UTAHLOY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ZENGCHENG
but I saw --
UNHOLY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ZENGCHENG

I need to take a break from writing at my computer.