| Love the adventure, develop cultural understanding, | | | | press and website advertising, and 26% would rely |
| extend your teaching skills, but miss your family. | | | | most on talking to colleagues at different international |
| That's what teachers who have been teaching | | | | schools. Only 5% said they would now consider |
| overseas for several years are telling new recruits to | | | | recruitment fairs. Everyone agreed that the best |
| teaching overseas. | | | | advice for new international teachers is to be |
| International school recruitment specialists Teachers | | | | open-minded and consider, middle east teaching jobs, |
| International Consultancy researched a broad group | | | | teaching jobs in Europe, wherever, look at everything |
| of experienced international teachers recently. The | | | | on it's merits. |
| aim was to find out from seasoned teachers the | | | | The influx of new teachers into the overseas schools |
| best and the worst of teaching overseas. | | | | market has grown significantly. According to ISC |
| Teachers of 13 different nationalities who have spent | | | | Research, the organisation that analyses |
| an average of ten years working in international | | | | developments in the international schools market, |
| schools were interviewed. 67% said the biggest | | | | since 2000 the number of staff in international |
| overall impact of teaching overseas was gaining an | | | | schools has increased from 90,000 to almost 230,000. |
| understanding of many different cultures. 60% | | | | And this number is expected to rise with ISC |
| believed that the experience had significantly | | | | Research predicting there to be 320,000 staff |
| broadened their teaching skills and knowledge beyond | | | | working in international schools by 2015 and 450,000 |
| what they would have achieved in their home | | | | by 2020. "The majority of these people will come |
| country. Everyone said that they saw the experience | | | | from English-speaking countries as this is the language |
| as an adventure. As for the downside of teaching | | | | for learning in international schools," says Andrew |
| jobs overseas, 37% said it was missing family and | | | | Wigford, director of Teachers International Consulting. |
| friends, 14% said it was the difficulty of initially | | | | "Recruiters from most of the reputable and |
| making new friends in a new location, 8% said | | | | accredited international schools look for qualified |
| language barriers and another 8% said coping with | | | | teachers with good experience from English-speaking |
| cultural differences. | | | | countries. United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, |
| All respondents had moved jobs within the overseas | | | | Australia and New Zealand all have a particularly good |
| school arena several times. Based on their experience | | | | reputation for their pedagogy and the |
| of finding new jobs, 43% said they would use | | | | learning-focused skills of their teachers," he says. |
| specialist recruitment organisations, 26% would use | | | | |