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What is your teaching area?

Very low.
1) A Masters is not a teaching credential. 3rd tier ISs will take what they can get, and some will accept an education degree in place of a credential.
2) Your spouse isnt a native English Speaker, and they arent a westerner. For many ISs they want white faces from US, UK, AUS, CAN.
3) Third tier ISs will take what they can get, but there is no shortage of SS/Humanities ITs. She might have a stronger background in Business Studies/Economics but a Masters in Education prepares you (debatable) to create lessons, manage a classroom and perform some assessments. It doesnt make you good in any of those things or actually prepare you in a content field.
4) The standard bar to entry into IE is 2 years. Your spouse would be more marketable pursuing elementary/primary education. Thats usually how IT couples market themselves when one candidate is far stronger than the other. It would be a really desperate IS that appoints an IT to a school leaving history/SS/Humanities course without having any experience in the subject or any experience whatsoever in a classroom.

Your spouse is more a liability than an asset, your better presenting yourself as a IT with a trailing spouse with the possibility she could teach some FL classes. Unless your spouse has some other motivation for the Masters it isnt worth the expense in IE.

Unless it is a certification+MA combo type program, don't bother. As pointed out above, an MA without a teaching certification is going to be almost worthless if your goal is to get a teaching job in an IS.

Jay Jay,

a lot will depend on your teaching area - and your wife's. If she is good at math and can certify in that, it would be good. Or science. That will help strengthen her prospects, especially if you are a science person.

Otherwise, upper primary or MS would be a good place IMO. Far enough away from KG and Pre-K that she wouldn't get confused with any classroom aides if you ended up in certain parts of the world.

I have a friend his wife teaches math. She is not Western, but knows her subject. They've been teaching as a team for years.

But she needs certification and you might consider staying in the US for her two years experience before heading overseas.

Good luck!

Shad

I see you are science. Have your wife do maths. Or Humanities along with Business studies or Econ if you are going to be at IB schools.

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