Hey all, I've had an off and on love affair with the teaching game and I'm looking to settle out in the international realm. I have an elementary and special education degree and license from Wisconsin. After I finished my student teaching I substitute taught for about a year. I then joined the Peace Corps, where I taught a 3rd grade classroom in a remote primary school for 1 year and then taught literacy to low level readers the next. Since then, I've been working as a teacher aide in an elementary school here in the states, working individually with special education students.

I would love to find something in South America, I'm obviously not dead-set on a top tier school, and I'm willing to put in some work for a couple of years in order to nab something more ideal. My biggest concern is, I don't have a legitimate 2 years of "full classroom experience" that I've read many places is a minimum requirement. Instead, I have a collection of different experiences that are closely related to that.

I'm looking to go to AASSA's fair in December, maybe UNI later on too; I talked to a recruiter on the phone and he said that between my Peace Corps experience and the high demand for special education I would have a chance despite my experience situation. What do you all think? Is this something worth pursuing or should I build up more experience in the US first?