East Asia/Singapore Fair
East Asia/Singapore Fair
A new SA fair for early hires in East/SE Asia, focused on IB and IGCSE. Anyone going or know anything about its potential success or failure? It's a good match for me on paper, but I want to limit my time spent travelling and running around fairs. What do people think of it?
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Absolute dump fair. Its in the middle of October, and while intent letters are due earlier and earlier each year, there is little that many ISs would be prepared for recruiting that early. They would have to request intent letters by 1 October (and probably earlier). The other issue is most DTs from western regions will be firmly in the early/middle part of their term.
The EA/SG fair is really a DE fair, its intended for DTs/ITs in the Asian region hose local academic calenders dont follow the western fall/spring calendar, such as SG (which finishes their AY in November and starts again in January) and Thailand (which starts in November), etc. More and more DSs are adapting international western curriculum and establishing 'international academies' within their DSs, and this fair is for those DSs that are looking for IGCSE and IB practitioners.
The EA/SG fair is really a DE fair, its intended for DTs/ITs in the Asian region hose local academic calenders dont follow the western fall/spring calendar, such as SG (which finishes their AY in November and starts again in January) and Thailand (which starts in November), etc. More and more DSs are adapting international western curriculum and establishing 'international academies' within their DSs, and this fair is for those DSs that are looking for IGCSE and IB practitioners.
Re: East Asia/Singapore Fair
Love to disagree with PG's wikipedia-backed response. If you are single and have 3-5 years experience with A levels/IB and solid extracurriculars (Duke of Edinburgh, MUN, service projects etc.), you can break into a decent tier 2 school. Do email schools in advance and let them know you're genuinely interested. Create a class blog if you don't have one yet and highlight your experience with evidence-based and personalized learning. Post pics from student trips and connect with fellow educators on twitter. Singapore wants turbo-charged teachers, who are willing to spend their breaks on student trips and service projects. You really need to show you can run an extra marathon.
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Re: East Asia/Singapore Fair
As a follow up to mathman85, with the new GDRP rules from the EU, make sure you follow them.
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Disagree all you ant, its still true. The location of the fair in SG while it will have DSs from SG there, is a regional fair for the entire east Asia region (Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong), Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam) SG is just one tiny part of the entire region. Every year the SG MOE runs a global recruiting drive and SG has high expectations and standards for its DTs, they work as hard as employees in the SG corporate world (not a whole lot of work life balance). None of that mitigates that this is still a dump fair for Asia DSs with academies that happens to have its venue in SG.
Disagree all you ant, its still true. The location of the fair in SG while it will have DSs from SG there, is a regional fair for the entire east Asia region (Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong), Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam) SG is just one tiny part of the entire region. Every year the SG MOE runs a global recruiting drive and SG has high expectations and standards for its DTs, they work as hard as employees in the SG corporate world (not a whole lot of work life balance). None of that mitigates that this is still a dump fair for Asia DSs with academies that happens to have its venue in SG.