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Article #154: Start Your International Teaching Career in the United Kingdom

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Currently there is a shortage of enjoy learning its eccentricities.
experienced teachers to fill key jobs in Additionally, while you are in the UK
the United Kingdom. This could be your acquiring the experience to launch
opportunity to springboard your teaching yourself into international school
career into the international school teaching, you can take advantage of the
sector. UK's proximity to Europe and the plethora
If you are looking at getting yourself a of low-cost airlines that have sprung up
teaching job abroad at an international in recent years.
school but have not yet been able to land When you are ready to apply for your
a contract, you could sneak your way in first international school teaching
through the back door. position you will be able to attend one
In nearly every country in the world you or more of the job fairs run by Search
can find an international school that Associates and ECIS and held in London
offers the British National Curriculum. each year. Many international schools
All of these schools are looking for interested in employing educators with UK
teachers with recent experience teaching experience attend these job fairs in
in the UK. London.
With recent experience teaching the When I attended a job fair in London,
British examination courses for GCSE after teaching in the UK for three years,
(Grade 9) and A-Levels (Grade 12), you I had 13 schools wanting to interview me.
will have a resume that recruiters for I could have got a teaching job in the
British schools will be very interested United Arab Emirates, Germany, Qatar,
in and they will be lining up to France, the Netherlands, China, Hong Kong
interview you. The same follows for or Thailand. I chose Thailand and I've
elementary school teachers who are been here for 3 years now.
familiar with the key stages set out in You can check out what vacancies there
the UK National Curriculum. are in British schools right now by
Search Associates, one of the largest searching for jobs in your specialism on
recruitment organisations dealing with the TES Jobs website. This is the one
international schools even has a separate stop shop for all vacancies in England.
branch that specialises in placing You can also find a definitive list of
teachers with UK experience in British jobs in international schools in their
International schools. database as well!
I recently interviewed an American For visa requirements, check out the
teacher who launched her career in website for the British Embassy in your
international schools after a year spent country. If you are a young teacher, make
teaching the British National Curriculum sure you look to see if the UK offers
at a grammar school just west of London. working holiday visas to people in your
Since then she has gone on to teach in 3 country, you can apply for one of those
international schools in 2 countries that without having to get a job first. If you
offered the UK curriculum. She has now already have a visa you are going to be
spent more time teaching the British even more attractive to school
curriculum than the American one she principals!
originally trained for! Whether you're looking for a teaching job
Teaching in the UK has many benefits, it in the UK or in an international school,
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living and working overseas. Even though an International School is full of
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