Ok, so I feel like a real parasite and carpetbagger, so let me give you some background--

We originally ran into a couple with multiple kids and a "trailing spouse" who had spent a couple of years in a middle eastern country teaching English to students transitioning to college. So we started out trying to land a gig there, but recent changes resulted in an enrollment drop so that dried up. The same source suggested hitting a job fair, and I conveniently didn't see the certification prerequisites, so then I began blundering around the forums and tacitly insulting everyone without understanding the lay of the land.

So thanks for the helpful advice and I'll focus on the university scene and quit making clumsy, unqualified attempts to poach jobs I'm not qualified for.

Thanks for the suggestions. One of my email addresses is recumbents@gmail.com

I think I did a poor job of researching the market and need to either try to find the rare combination of someone who is desperate enough to forego the certification and can afford to fly us out there, which is probably unlikely.

We're just looking to go overseas for a year or three. I'll revisit the collegiate jobs as well.

Note: My wife is pretty flexible, and she is the one pushing the hardest to go overseas, but she is not excited about the limitations put on women in Saudi Arabia, especially not being able to drive.

I agree about their being differences with classroom management, etc. although I would say that Rhetcomp is a little closer than, say, a straight English lit degree. I rarely lecture. I have friends who teach at a local private school, and I find their work pretty impressive. At one of our local, private schools, only one of the doctorates teaching high school students has a certification, and they're somewhat frowned upon, apparently.

Thanks for the suggestions. One of my email addresses is recumbents@gmail.com

I think I did a poor job of researching the market and need to either try to find the rare combination of someone who is desperate enough to forego the certification and can afford to fly us out there, which is probably unlikely.

We're just looking to go overseas for a year or three. I'll revisit the collegiate jobs as well.

Note: My wife is pretty flexible, and she is the one pushing the hardest to go overseas, but she is not excited about the limitations put on women in Saudi Arabia, especially not being able to drive.

Thanks for the tips and advice, however ISS just refunded 3/4 of my registration fee as I don't have two years of K-12 experience or a state certification (I'm a professor with a Ph.D.)

I suppose I'll contact schools directly and see if I can get a refund on the plane ticket.

So I just received a refund from ISS because I don't have two years of experience with K-12 OR a state certification. I'm a college professor with a Ph.D. in English who has been teaching freshman English for about a decade. I understand the requirements, I just wish I had noticed them prior to losing $50, but there you go.

I'm wondering what my best options are at this point, and whether it is still possible or worth it to attend a job fair given my credentials or lack thereof. I already bought the ticket to SF.

Thanks for the help, I've located some useful threads. I'm fairly certain I can get up to a three year leave of absence from my institution, so I suppose that might still qualify me as a tourist. My spouse is in the middle of a Master's degree and has done a lot of work at writing centers. We would be fine with the Middle East, as well as the EU and Asia.

I'm new to the international schools teaching scene and will be attending the San Francisco job fair in February. I've submitted my application materials at ISS, but am fairly clueless about the whole process of working the fair and signing up for interviews.

I'm a tenured English professor with four kids, so I'm not sure if I'm that hirable, to boot, and would imagine we'd have to buy tickets for some or all of the kids if someone picked me up.