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adrianmark · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 64

I have been searching info for a while now and not really found what I am looking for so please help me.

I am British National with an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. I have 10 years' experience teaching in language schools in Beijing and would like to move to the UAE.

Pls tell me which are the best schools/establishments to work for?

Also, how much could I realistically expect to earn per month with my qualifications and experience?

Thanks

helenl · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1202

best employers- ones that pay you in full and on time;provide housing, tickets and medical

decent $$? between AED 10000 and 14000/month

What kind of experience? Conversation, writing? What level - K-12, adults

adrianmark · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 64

My experience - K-12, adults, CEOs, VPs, managers etc.

Taught oral, writing and reading. Also taught email writing, meeting and presentation skills, business English, IELTS, social situational English and negotiational English.

You name and I've taught it - pretty much.

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

The pay will much depend on how your experience matches what they are looking for. I think that Helen1 pay estimates are a bit low. I was offered over 10,000 with an MA + 5 (all in the Middle East) nearly 20 years ago. Cool

Based on what I have seen offered to friends in the last couple years, MA with good matching experience are being offered 13-19,000 OR.

Your first problem may be that conversation teaching will not count for much of anything. In any application at university level, you would want to stress your reading and writing experience.

If you are interested in university level, applications are taken through their websites and openings are normally listed there. Look at The Higher Colleges of Technology, Zayed University, and American University of Sharjah - as a start.

VS

helenl · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1202

I defer to VS's sources, but I do know HCT was lowballing some applicants with 14000 as of August

republocrat · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:26 pm Post subject:

Yeh, 14K is still too low for somebody with such solid experience and also so well-qualified. 15K would be the absolute minimum, in my view, and really there's room for improvement on that, especially in the tertiary sector.

High schools will pay less, but I'd avoid those if I were you!

Best of luck anyway, and please let us know how things progress.

trapezius · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:03 am Post subject:

IF housing is provided for free, 14K is effing amazing....

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

I don't know any university level employers who don't provide furnished housing (or a housing allowance and furniture allowance)... that is standard in the Emirates, Trap.

A couple years back a friend with a shiny new MA (with some good pre-MA Middle East experience) got offers from 13,700 to 18,500.

My suspicion is that offers this year will be very dependent on supply and demand... and that is rather a question mark.

VS