Is it easy or hard for a female (Canadian) Maths teacher to get a teaching position at an American school, after having taught exclusively at British/IB schools?
Most of the good schools in the locations we're looking at are American schools.
I'm not sure how keen American schools are on hiring a non-US teacher, although there's a fair amount of US teachers at British schools usually.
I'll have 12 years of experience, but have a trailing spouse and child.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Getting a job at American school after only BS/IB-schools?
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Heliotrope
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Re: Getting a job at American school after only BS/IB-school
The biggest issue they want to know is can you teach the level of math they need you to teach. If the IB and British curriculum math class is equivalent or you can show you have the background to teach what they need, that's going to be good enough at a lot of places. Math is a high need subject area if you can teach IB Math HL or AP Calculus level and the slightly lower level subjects. Individual recruiters might feel differently, but as a whole you're fine there.
The bigger issue is two dependents. That's going to cost the school more. Is your child school aged? What level? Elementary, middle, or high school? For math, you may still be okay. Some schools will say no because you have two dependents. Other times you may be interviewed, but it's possible you lose out to people who are less expensive to hire.
I'd say you should try for American schools in the areas you're interested. Spend some time looking to see how they approach their curriculum. There's been a decent number of American schools where they've gone to integrated math from separate algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, pre-calculus.
Good luck.
Eion
The bigger issue is two dependents. That's going to cost the school more. Is your child school aged? What level? Elementary, middle, or high school? For math, you may still be okay. Some schools will say no because you have two dependents. Other times you may be interviewed, but it's possible you lose out to people who are less expensive to hire.
I'd say you should try for American schools in the areas you're interested. Spend some time looking to see how they approach their curriculum. There's been a decent number of American schools where they've gone to integrated math from separate algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, pre-calculus.
Good luck.
Eion
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Its not that hard, ASs tend to have a healthy though minority number of other western ITs. At SLL the various curriculum are all highly congruent. Factoring a binomial and arriving at the first derivative dont change. The differences you see are in scope and sequence and that compared to BSs (specifically IGCSEs and A*) are less exam driven until you get to AP. The only other curriculum issue is going to be educating yourself on CC (Common Core) standards but theres nothing exhaustive or difficult about it. A few ways of doing somethings differently, all depend on which textbook the AS has adapted.
The two dependents is going to be an issue as your much more expensive, but a 1:3 ratio isnt a huge challenge for a maths IT, depending on if your child is school aged and what the ISs waiting list looks like.
The two dependents is going to be an issue as your much more expensive, but a 1:3 ratio isnt a huge challenge for a maths IT, depending on if your child is school aged and what the ISs waiting list looks like.