Hello all, I am a nascent mathematics teacher eager to find out how to make oneself employable in the arena of international school teaching. To start off, I am from South East Asia and studied in local schools for all my primary and secondary school years. However, I did obtain four UK A levels (Edexcel) and spent four years in the UK for my undergraduate and masters degree in two top Russell Group universities. In fact, I currently hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from a Singaporean university and have been teaching maths at A levels in the country for the past 1.5 years. If I may add,the PGDE allows me to teach the Singapore GCE O level maths too.

At this point time, what else can I do apart from accumulating teaching experience to boost my chances of getting employed in an international school? I am now teaching a more difficult variant of A level maths in Singapore so the British A level maths should be quite manageable. To add on, I am willing to learn how to teach the IBDP too and have been looking at attending IB workshops. Unfortunately, I have no idea how well regarded a Singaporean PGDE is compared to a UK PGCE or teaching qualifications from other native English-speaking countries. I had the impression that they are equivalent but do employers think so?