You will be overwhelmingly better off paying for extra baggage on your outbound flight. Sea/land shipping has become a tremendous racket with more hidden fees that a Verizon cell phone contract.

Someone clearly does not realize how un-Scandinavian it is to waste that much carbon.

What I've noticed with several associates is that they are tremendously unwilling to express anything even halfway negative about a school, even when the red flags are flying high.

I had an associate tell me at the Bethesda fair this year that a first-year school in Egypt, operating out of an old office building on the outskirts of Cairo and represented by a massive Texan who clearly had about as much experience in education as a house cat does in quantum physics was "not just picking anyone."

Perhaps they weren't just picking anyone, but it seems like Search is ready and willing to just pick any school to recruit at their fairs.

Subjectivity is the foundation of any review of any school. We're talking about one's personal experience and perspective as informed by their morals, values, codes, etc. This is what happens on this site.

I think this could make for an awesome thread at this time of year. I just don't have enough experience with Tier 1 schools to weigh in properly except to say the TASIS summer program is of, ahem, incredibly dubious quality.

I really don't think anyone in international schools cares a great deal about where you get your Masters. It's all about how well you teach and the exp you already have--and you sound like you have a fair amount.

I got my Masters from an Ivy League English Education program but my coursework was little more than insulting fluff and a cash cow for the university. A massive waste of 12 months if you asked me, but it got me into teaching at a respectable salary level.

+1

Correct, best comb-over ever...kind of Canadian exotic dancer circa 1970.

I don't mean to be trite but their info sessions at the Search Fairs are total yawners. Their rep has what is quite possibly the worst comb-over I have ever seen. Totally bizarre.

They really sell themselves on being able to move between various QSI schools, but if you're a good teacher you can move between any schools so their point is.....?

k, if the aforementioned could give a general review (thumbs up or down) I'd be keen to hear. thanks

Any way you could put me in touch with them? I'd like to pick their brain.

Stockholm or Tegulciapa?

Does anyone have an information on the Internationella Engelska Skolan schools in Sweden? They look very for-profit but also like they get things done in a major way. Any experiences or chatter out there?

http://engelska.se/

+1. Googled Beemarcus and nothing comes up.

Thanks to you both. I wasn't taking Psyguy's advice as anything but tongue in cheek though "The International School of Mogadishu" did provide my comic relief for the morning. I'll chew on staying another year as I expect my school will invite me to renew this month. Small, conservative, religious countries, however, just have a way a very particular way of sucking (for western liberal atheists like myself) that I'm not sure I can stomach for another 12 months. We'll see.

This one might be a bit of a Hail Mary given the glut of highly qualified teachers looking to get into international teaching these days, but I am keen on landing a secondary English position next fall at a good to great i-school. I'm at a lower Tier 2 school right now (1 year contract) which is not horrible, but I'm not in a country where I want to spend much more time.

I bring stellar references, sterling undergraduate and graduate degrees, fluency in three languages, and a previous career in the language arts though it was not instructional. My associate calls me "exceptionally qualified" but I still lack the teaching experience. I only have 1.5 years in i-schools if we throw in some summer employment.

Does anyone have any job-landing strategies beyond the obvious routes of fairs, director recommendations and cold CV submissions that have worked for them in the past?