Dearest Forum Friends,

I might be facing a decision between two schools. This would be my first international teaching job, my first EVER teaching job. I teach elementary and I will potentially have to decide between a school that has IB's PYP or a school without. I would be happy to live in either location. I think the PYP school might pay a little less.

I think I plan to teach internationally for a good while and will want to move further on up the tier system with time. I've heard that a lot of the best schools to work for are IB schools. Based on this very little information regarding my situation, should I go for the PYP? Will my career options be highly enhanced should I take it?

Thanks y'all,

dangranger

Shadowjack - I can't quite apply yet. I haven't even done my student teaching yet. That won't happen until this fall. If all goes according to plan I'll be student teaching in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain, or Germany so I'm pretty pumped about that.

So how is TIE better than say, SearchAssociates or ISS?

Awesome. So this coming Nov/Dec they will begin recruiting for the school year starting in Fall 2015?

When you say recruiting do you mean working with an actual recruiter or just going to international school job fairs?

Deciding on where to focus my efforts is one thing. Knowing how to focus is a whole other can of worms I haven't opened. Is it most helpful to work with an agency or go the job fair/internet posting route?

I figured this topic has been touched on numerous times. Couldn't resist posting my own though. I'll keep cruising the archives. Thanks boss.

Hey there. I'm on the road to teaching abroad and thought y'all might be able to help me out. I'm trying to plan for the next few years (as much as I can anyways) and I'm not entirely sure where to start. So, some background information...

I graduated college in 2008 with a political science degree. I joined AmeriCorps, taught at an environmental education center, was a National Park Service ranger, a substitute teacher, and now I'm back in graduate school, earning an M.A.T with a focus on early childhood education.

Here is my (not entirely unique) dilemma. Between undergrad and graduate school I will have close to $50,000 in student loans. So that's good. I definitely didn't decide to become a teacher for the money, but the reality is I need to make it. Now, I could make decent money here in the U.S. but I really would like to live abroad while I'm (relatively) young.

Here is what I had in my head for a tentative multi-year plan.

-Get a job for a year or two in South America - Get teaching experience, save a few bucks, travel, dance, learn to speak Spanish!
-Get a job in a country with more saving power and SLAM my student loan debt (I occasionally read comments about saving $30,000 in a year in places like Qatar)

Does this sound feasible? Is it likely I could get a job with one of these schools in a country with more saving power right out of graduate school?

Sorry for the novel. Thanks for your thoughts!