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[adrianmark]

I am a British national with an MA in Applied Linguistics & TESOL as well as 8 years overseas experience as a senior ESL teacher. Here's the rub, I have no IB experience.

Would an IB school look at me with my qualifications and experience even though I have never taught the IB progam?

I am an ESL teacher trying to work for an IB school.

What are my chances?

Thanks for your help

[naturegirl321]

Yep, you might be able to get in, but what would you teach? Literature? Usually teachers have to have a specialisation to teach at schools.

ONe thing, don't think that just because it's an IB school, it's good. There are ways to get the IB certification, like paying enough money. I worked for one, only lasted a semester. ON orientation, they said that we had 5 days to make everything: curriculum, syllabi, scope and sequence and all worksheets we would need since they didn't use books. Oh, and there was no info on what they had done last year, so you had no idea if you were teaching something that they had already learnt. They did have some abriged novels, but reading, things like "And then there were none" to ten year old children, which is about 12 suicides, just didn't sit right with me. And that was one of the tamer books they had. It was acutally a comic book, and was very explicit in the pictures and different ways of committing suicide.

Getting into an IB school in a popular country with no teaching license and no IB experience might prove to be difficult, you might want to try some of the countries that have less competition.

You should also try the internationalschoolreview.com If I had read the posts about the IB school I had worked at before applying, I never would have applied.

If you have taught children under age 18, be sure to add that info to your CV.