I am a teacher with same background as you - with the added "strikes" of 3 children and a non-teaching spouse - and I went to a fair early this year with the same worries and was offered positions. They were great positions with tier 1 international schools. I had zero years of international teaching experience.

I'm currently working at a great international school and there are many teachers at our school (an IB school) without PYP/MYP background - just strong teaching records/experiences and an open, flexible attitude. We are all getting the necessary training.

It is VERY possible to get into the international teaching circuit if you are an experienced teacher who has familiarized herself with the process, the schools she is interested in and cultivated the positive, can-do attitude that invites the job offers.

You can do it!

Thanks WeDoDude for dispelling another one of PsyGuy's "facts".

Please see the answers in the thread on ACS Doha. He knows not of what he speaks.

Where are the moderators on this forum?

The school has only been open from Sept. of 2011 - so how could anyone have been fed up after working there for 2 years? Really.

Its enrollment has skyrocketed. Hence the additional teachers.

I know this discussion has taken place in the past - I've been lurking for a while now - but, here goes...

Psyguy, I have to say that it's interesting to see you jump in so quickly to help everyone who posts here. Even if you don't have any experience with what they inquire about, you're here, happily waving something you've found out. I'm not being sarcastic when I say that that's impressive; it takes a lot of time to search for information.

However, it's troubling when you post messages, with "ironclad" certitude, about the inner workings of things that you cannot possibly know.

That point has been pointed out to you many times so I want to move on to something that is as, or, in the light of our profession as educators, even more troubling: the pronouncements that you make so unabashedly about another culture and area of the world.

You happened to have one bad experience in Cairo and subsequently bash all of the Middle East repeatedly. When someone posts a question seeking information on anything to do with ME, you're here to thwart them and slam their interests in the region.

It is almost unbelievable that you are an INTERNATIONAL educator, with the amount of culture/region-bashing you do.

I ask you, in the name of international education, to be more sensitive to how you respond here to questions on the Middle East.

It's just reprehensible how you can so carelessly pick up a whole region, with its millions of people, diverse cities and hundreds of schools and just flick it off - as if that one awful experience YOU "suffered" should now affect its image in the eyes of everyone from here on.

There is a word for that way of thinking and it ain't pretty.