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Geoff1111
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 Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: International Schools? |
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Does anyone know how much international schools pay?
I read on the ISS website that they are looking for 2 years
k-12 experience for people with teaching degrees.
Is it possible to get these jobs with 2 years teaching English to Koreans?
I have my bachelor's of education and 2 years experience in Korea.
Am I out of luck to get these kind of jobs?
Any information would be greatly appreciated. |
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nobbyken
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Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Int. schools in the sticks would snap you up, the ones in the Seoul area will probably already have teachers.
Spoke to international school student from down South-east Korea, and their school has a severe shortage of teachers. |
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Saxiif
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There's a big gap between the high end international schools and the low end ones that are either out in the sticks, cater or poorer people or aren't really international schools (just foreign curriculum).
But the main draw of teaching at an international school isn't really pay it's the looooooooooooooooooooong vacations. |
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Toju
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Government run foreign language high schools are also a good option as, unlike private ones, they won't fleece you on your pay and also treat you with the respect that you deserve as a teacher. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: Re: International Schools? |
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| Geoff1111 wrote: |
Does anyone know how much international schools pay?
I read on the ISS website that they are looking for 2 years
k-12 experience for people with teaching degrees.
Is it possible to get these jobs with 2 years teaching English to Koreans?
I have my bachelor's of education and 2 years experience in Korea.
Am I out of luck to get these kind of jobs?
Any information would be greatly appreciated. |
I am looking to move into international education down the road.
first of all, the answer to your question is MAYBE . if it's a true "internationa" school.
You need to be a LICENSED teacher in order to teach there. These schools are accredited in the US/Canada, UK, etc.. and therefore only hire licensed teachers to teach in those schools. If you have a bachelor's in Education you are almost "home". Did you get licensed or accredited in any of the US states or Canada? (you have to do like a semester of student teaching at end of bachelor's to get licensed (in US anyways)
It's like an "American" or "Canadian" school back home, but in a foreign country.
pay scales vary depending on school, prestige of the school and location.
But generally speaking, it's much more lucrative than the ESL field. (and the perks, like paid for teacher appts, far better as well) |
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Geoff1111
Joined: 20 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: Re: International Schools? |
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| bogey666 wrote: |
You need to be a LICENSED teacher in order to teach there. These schools are accredited in the US/Canada, UK, etc.. and therefore only hire licensed teachers to teach in those schools. If you have a bachelor's in Education you are almost "home". Did you get licensed or accredited in any of the US states or Canada? (you have to do like a semester of student teaching at end of bachelor's to get licensed (in US anyways)
It's like an "American" or "Canadian" school back home, but in a foreign country.
pay scales vary depending on school, prestige of the school and location.
But generally speaking, it's much more lucrative than the ESL field. (and the perks, like paid for teacher appts, far better as well) |
That's good news. I am a licensed teacher from Ontario, Canada. Thanks for the info. |
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Geoff1111
Joined: 20 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| nobbyken wrote: |
Int. schools in the sticks would snap you up, the ones in the Seoul area will probably already have teachers.
Spoke to international school student from down South-east Korea, and their school has a severe shortage of teachers. |
You wouldn't know the name of the school would you? I would like to give them a call.
Thanks |
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Larissa
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
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| A lot of the international schools I've looked at (even accredited ones) don't state that they require teaching licenses on their human resources websites. I mean, I suppose I'll try anyway, I've been teaching for years without a license in the U.S. |
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cbclark4
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Location: Masan
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bogey666
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| Larissa wrote: |
| A lot of the international schools I've looked at (even accredited ones) don't state that they require teaching licenses on their human resources websites. I mean, I suppose I'll try anyway, I've been teaching for years without a license in the U.S. |
extremely rare. Is it a public school? I've seen non licensed teachers in Catholic schools but never in public ones, unless you're part of a special program that will get you licensed in short order.
for an intl school to hire you it would have to be desperate to fill the position with no licensed teacher available, although ultimately it's always up to the directorate of the school. but I'd bet that's very rare.
btw.. Korea is a little funny in that at first glance (I haven't researched this thoroughly) but at first glance there is a less of a difference here than elsewhere in payscales for licensed teachers in intl schools vs ESL.
but it all depends on the intl school. The most prestigious ones are very difficult to get into and pay very very well. |
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