The International Schools Review Forum

I wonder if anyone can help me. I really would like to work in South America, preferably Peru or Brazil. The problem is that the schools with a Northern Hemisphere calender currently don´t have a job in my subject (ICT). Rather than accepting a 2 year contract in a country I don´t particularly want to work in, should I take 6 months off as my current contract ends in June. Has anybody been to the AASSA fair before in Nov? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Most of the international schools that you would want to work at in South America (Lincoln, Cotopaxi, Graded etc) are going to operate on a North American type calendar-with a school year beginning in August, ending in June. They way they compensate for the South American summer is by giving a 6 week holiday in Decmber /January and 6 week holiday in June /July. You should not need to take six months off to get on the southern hemisphere schedule unless you plan to teach in a local school.