@Reisgio Have you ever thought of having an ego-ectomy?
@Joe90 Get a job, and if you can't, then stop whining about it and prepare yourself better.

Lots of really good people got positions this weekend at SEARCH. They're off on an adventure that will change their lives. Because you didn't, you have to insult and denigrate and name-call. So pathetic.

@Dave "I actually enjoyed the weekend." Oh come on. You weren't at SEARCH London. And you know why not - just as I do.

@Dave "ISS has always been stronger than SA. at BKK"

This is such tosh, Dave! ISS in BKK: candidates 200+; SEARCH in BKK: candidates 500+
Schools in attendance in the same proportion; top tier schools in attendance in the same proportion.
ISS numbers received their boost to 200+ because they have linked up with Teach Away to generate more candidates.
Data matters, Dave, nothing else!

"Deny, deny until you die", Dave, but the truth will catch up with you. I know the schools you worked at and for how long, and I know in detail how the last one ended.

Dave, you are such a buffoon. I knew Alec Peterson. He was never known as Alex. And in a professional context, when you are citing, you wouldn't customarily shorten a name. If you did, then it certainly wouldn't be to a diminutive that NO ONE ever used. Alec Peterson's part-time work at ISG was a tiny part of his career. He would have scoffed at the description "Swiss educator". And to lard ISG with all the credit for the IB takes no account of the work of Atlantic College - where students sat the first trial IB examinations. You are the ultimate knowledge paradox: a know-all know-nothing.

@DavePinoccio
"Ive taught in one and am licensed in two."

Er how long is your nose right now? You forget that some of us have seen your resume!

Oh Dave, you're such a twit. You wrote quite clearly that the IB was the product of Swiss educators. Rather than admit that you got it wrong, you will argue until the cows come home, twisting words and quoting selectively. Read Ian Hill's history of the organization - he was the former Deputy DG and his is the official account - and then try to defend your thesis. Or take a look at this:
"Alexander Duncan Campbell Peterson OBE was a British teacher and headmaster, greatly responsible for the birth of the International Baccalaureate educational system."
or this:
"Alec Peterson was the first Director General of the International Baccalaureate® (IB). He shaped the educational philosophy of the IB based on his own deeply humanist and liberal beliefs; from the IB's commitment to stimulating courses, and its focus on independent research, to its balance between academic work and community service."
or this:
http://www.ibo.org/ib-world-archive/sep ... bs-father/

And stop being so boring!

@joe90
Given that your ambition in life seems to be to spread your seed as far and wide and cheaply and indiscriminately as possible, have you ever thought about ditching a career in education and becoming, say, a flight attendant with Air Asia?

@Dave
“IT nationality is irrelevant, and irrespective of practice. You can be a German, French, British, English, American, Japanese, Indian IT and be located in Australia, Switzerland, Eqypt, Thailand and after X years you are an educator of your new and current location.”

You find it so difficult to admit you’re ever wrong. You stated quite clearly before that the IB was the product of Swiss educators. When you see the fact (oh Dave loves facts) that there was no Swiss educator involved, your new line is that an international teacher working in an international school in Switzerland is de facto a Swiss domestic teacher. You’re such a funny boy.

At least no one will ever make the assumption that you have become the same as a national domestic teacher in your various international postings. Even you would recognize that you have stay longer than a year for that to happen.

I think it's Mini Me. Though to be fair if he is Dave's alter ego at least he understands some of the rules of grammar.
@chilagringa: for me it would be Ghana, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. How anyone young and single wouldn't want an adventure in Africa is beyond me. I can't see anyone who's old and grey beginning a sentence to grandchildren with, "I remember when I was working in....." and then finishing it with "Zurich" or "Singapore"

"Its a product of Swiss educators who borrowed from the EB (European Baccalaureate) program to form an assessment framework as an alternative to the rigidity of O levels (and A levels to a lessor extent)."

Hey Dave, for the first time you've told me something new: I always thought Alec Peterson was a Brit and Gerard Renaud was French. Clearly they are secret yodellers!

"At least the IS in Angola pays you a lot of money to suffer the hardship of living there."

Sorry to pee on your chips, Joe 90, but IS Angola hasn't paid its faculty at all since August.
As for Lagos... I've worked in Africa and that would be very low on my list.
Any more insights?

Dave, Dave, don’t try to rewrite History when your own words are on the same page. You said, “No the candidate pool was not very strong, it was ME ITs.” I don’t think it’s unreasonable for me to conclude that that is insulting to international teachers in the Middle East.

As for your trite little crowd-pleaser, “IT can look own (sic) on leadership (sic) its (sic) the difference between one group that adds value and one group that doesnt (sic)” what makes this even more funny is that you’d sell your grandmother to get a post as an administrator at any school anywhere. Unfortunately for you, you have to keep a teaching job for rather longer than a year in order to take a step up the ladder.

“Its a swap fair, the "Dubai Dump" a regional/local fair for ITs within the region, the ME, to move around to other ME ISs. These ISs were never very competitive so they employed some shill ISs, and tried to get out in front of the traditional recruiting cycle.”
Dave, are your hemorrhoids hurting again? You seem really irritable.

Elizamina, this is a new fair set up by a few schools who wished to cut out the middleman role of the agencies and so be free to all-comers – schools as well as candidates. The progenitor was American School Bombay. (Tragically, Dave thinks India is in the Middle East.) Among the so-called “shill ISs” who were “employed” were American Embassy New Delhi, Singapore American School, International School Beijing and UNIS Hanoi – obviously all schools that are prepared to sell their souls for thirty pieces of silver.

Who knows whether the idea will work or not, but the nay-sayers should remember that all recruitment fairs start off small and the good ones prosper.

@SadDave
“Oh great another admin patting themselves on the back, becuase they think just like SA and ISS that the recruiting event worked well for them.
No the candidate pool was not very strong, it was ME ITs.
Yes, all those ISs were well represented because all but one of them wasnt in the ME, which amounts for 4 or the 40 ISs.
Thats the plan, like everyone who thinks their idea is great has a plan.
Why bother registering the event is over, and again its just a collective of ME ISs that recruit year long because they have to.”

So scathing and disrespectful and contemptuous, Dave – about teacher candidates, about schools, about administrators. Anyone reading your comments might draw the conclusion that you yourself were gainfully employed in a high-profile school where your skillset and professionalism were admired by all and you could afford to look down on others in the world of international education.

Not quite sure that would be an accurate inference…

Definitely a GSOH, reisgio, I just didn't see anything funny in your e mails, where you were gratuitously dissing administrators in European and African schools - seemingly because they didn't offer you a job. Cheap shots are never charming.
As to why they hold the fair in London, it's for the same reason that they hold fairs in the US. A large number of candidates at recruitment events are locals looking for their first job overseas, and many of these get appointed; this is as true in Cambridge, Iowa and wherever ISS happens to hang its hat as it is in London. If you moved SEARCH London or CIS to continental Europe you'd probably lose up to a third of your candidates - which wouldn't make sense to anyone. And don't assume that the conference-style hotels in Amsterdam or Frankfurt are any cheaper or better than the ones in London.