Thanks @muguet and @PsyGuy.

This is a very sad case of international schools not practicing what is preaches.

This topic came about while discussing with other peers teachers as well as friends .. hopefully we can discuss this openly.

International Schools teach about diversity and respect for other cultures and background but when it comes to hiring international teachers, the schools only prefer to hire white Americans or white British/ European teachers, even though there are teachers of others culture and skin color that has good or better teaching qualifications and experience?

Is that not the same as being racist ? Why do some schools actually say one thing but do another?

Thanks for all your feedback.

This is indeed tricky. On normal circumstances, one would not want to announce that they have an intention to leave, but in this case, its seems difficult as we need a reference from the head of school and by right, we would request for "permission" to list him/her down as reference, which ultimately means giving that reference a heads up, in case a potential employer comes knocking and requests for a formal written reference. Hmmm..

Hello everyone. My spouse is currently teaching in an international school and he is interested to work outside of our home country in South East Asia. From the vacancies that we see, it is noted that some schools require references from the current head of school. How does one go about this, without "announcing" that you have a plan to leave the current school and possibly straining the relationship with the school's management?

It is for now just a plan and may not even materialize as we understand the difficulty of obtaining a job overseas, seeing that he has dependents (spouse and kids), non-Education degree etc, despite having more than a decade of teaching experience - mainly in university college with recent 2 yrs experience in a formal IS. Part of the teaching in colleges includes A-Levels and foundation programs. Does that even count as having experience of teaching in senior school, although its in a college environment as its quite common for students to take up A-Levels in colleges here in our home country.