Aren't alcohol, affairs and illegal betting (weird censorship ISR) the most common reasons for divorce in general?
********
ISR Forum Admin: we did not censor your post. What you wrote is what is there. Nothing has been removed.
Search found 335 matches
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: International Schools and Divorce
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28939
- Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: International Schools and Divorce
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28939
Re: International Schools and Divorce
For the ones that get a divorce at the school, who knows, but one factor might be the heavy alcohol consumption.
As for the ones who were divorced before, surely divorced teachers go abroad more often because they have less tying them down (like a non-teaching spouse).
As for the ones who were divorced before, surely divorced teachers go abroad more often because they have less tying them down (like a non-teaching spouse).
- Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:43 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: International Schools and Divorce
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28939
Re: International Schools and Divorce
Ha! At my school it seems like at least half the staff is divorced, getting a divorce, or causing a divorce.
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: 2 year contracts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14417
Re: 2 year contracts
Well, I work at a good school... if I worked somewhere crappy maybe my position would change. But yes, that's my position. If someone only stays a 2 year contract, it's only 1.5 years before they start thinking about the next thing, and that often means checking out.
I mean obviously someone has the right to move on after two years if they want. BUT if I were an admin I would be skeptical of someone who sounds like they are going to be two and done.
I mean obviously someone has the right to move on after two years if they want. BUT if I were an admin I would be skeptical of someone who sounds like they are going to be two and done.
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:41 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: 2 year contracts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14417
Re: 2 year contracts
I'm not an administrator, but I am a department head. From that point of view I can say that people who stay for only one year, and even often people who are 2-and-done, are damaging to schools and the students, because it doesn't take long before they are checked out. (Obviously exceptions, but that's the general rule from what I've seen).
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: SPED in Mexico City or Lisbon?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6912
Re: SPED in Mexico City or Lisbon?
I guess it's all relative and I don't know where you're coming from, but Mexico City isn't all that warm or cheap. Panama City is plenty warm, but also not super cheap.
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:16 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Workload
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12310
Re: Workload
I think that the longer people are away from teaching public school the more they forget how easy they have it in IT. Those that have never taught public school have no idea. I have some colleagues (the latter category) that complain all the time about the workload and how they *gasp* can't finish marking during the workday (before 3pm) and I roll my eyes so hard.
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:45 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Which degree is more marketable?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5969
Re: Which degree is more marketable?
For teaching high school, an MA in teaching. For university, an MA in English.
Whatever you do, don't tell potential international school employers that your ultimate goal is teaching college. That would turn them right off of hiring you.
Whatever you do, don't tell potential international school employers that your ultimate goal is teaching college. That would turn them right off of hiring you.
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:43 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Where Should I Aim?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 30716
Re: Where Should I Aim?
Also, if you go to a less-desirable (ME) or lower-paying region (Mexico/Central America) you can often jump into tier 2 or even tier 1 because they don't have as many people competing for jobs. I work at what's considered tier one for my country, and it's maybe 3/4 of people's first international gig.
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:13 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14766
Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
No, but it seems to be the pattern. If you have a toxic admin that's another thing but most people would know that already. The admin at my school for all their faults don't get all pissy and do the right thing when someone announces their intention to leave.
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:49 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14766
Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
Well, all my colleagues that moved on to killer, tier-one gigs all put in their notice in October before they had found new jobs. Then they hit the fairs with great references in hand and are now all making a whack ton of dough at great schools.
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:02 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14766
Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
In IT there's the expectation that you will move on. If you announce your leaving with plenty of warning I don't see how it would strain relations. I know some people at my school that look for jobs behind the admin's back and those are the ones that piss people off.
- Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:01 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34103
Re: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
Leadership salaries at my school are three times what teachers make, so there's that.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:31 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34103
Re: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
I wish I had started teaching (or, hell, had a real job) by my mid-twenties so I would have some decent savings by now. Oh well, I'm a late bloomer.
Motivator... I just dig it.
Motivator... I just dig it.
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: School Hours/Working Hours -survey
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12051
Re: School Hours/Working Hours -survey
How does a 4 day schedule work? Do students take 3 of a given class during that time?