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by chilagringa
Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:54 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: International Schools and Divorce
Replies: 19
Views: 27393

Re: International Schools and Divorce

Aren't alcohol, affairs and illegal betting (weird censorship ISR) the most common reasons for divorce in general?

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by chilagringa
Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:09 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: International Schools and Divorce
Replies: 19
Views: 27393

Re: International Schools and Divorce

For the ones that get a divorce at the school, who knows, but one factor might be the heavy alcohol consumption.

As for the ones who were divorced before, surely divorced teachers go abroad more often because they have less tying them down (like a non-teaching spouse).
by chilagringa
Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:43 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: International Schools and Divorce
Replies: 19
Views: 27393

Re: International Schools and Divorce

Ha! At my school it seems like at least half the staff is divorced, getting a divorce, or causing a divorce.
by chilagringa
Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:13 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: 2 year contracts
Replies: 11
Views: 13782

Re: 2 year contracts

Well, I work at a good school... if I worked somewhere crappy maybe my position would change. But yes, that's my position. If someone only stays a 2 year contract, it's only 1.5 years before they start thinking about the next thing, and that often means checking out.

I mean obviously someone has the right to move on after two years if they want. BUT if I were an admin I would be skeptical of someone who sounds like they are going to be two and done.
by chilagringa
Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:41 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: 2 year contracts
Replies: 11
Views: 13782

Re: 2 year contracts

I'm not an administrator, but I am a department head. From that point of view I can say that people who stay for only one year, and even often people who are 2-and-done, are damaging to schools and the students, because it doesn't take long before they are checked out. (Obviously exceptions, but that's the general rule from what I've seen).
by chilagringa
Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:43 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: SPED in Mexico City or Lisbon?
Replies: 5
Views: 6712

Re: SPED in Mexico City or Lisbon?

I guess it's all relative and I don't know where you're coming from, but Mexico City isn't all that warm or cheap. Panama City is plenty warm, but also not super cheap.
by chilagringa
Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:16 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Workload
Replies: 8
Views: 11986

Re: Workload

I think that the longer people are away from teaching public school the more they forget how easy they have it in IT. Those that have never taught public school have no idea. I have some colleagues (the latter category) that complain all the time about the workload and how they *gasp* can't finish marking during the workday (before 3pm) and I roll my eyes so hard.
by chilagringa
Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:45 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Which degree is more marketable?
Replies: 3
Views: 5785

Re: Which degree is more marketable?

For teaching high school, an MA in teaching. For university, an MA in English.

Whatever you do, don't tell potential international school employers that your ultimate goal is teaching college. That would turn them right off of hiring you.
by chilagringa
Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:43 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Where Should I Aim?
Replies: 21
Views: 29763

Re: Where Should I Aim?

Also, if you go to a less-desirable (ME) or lower-paying region (Mexico/Central America) you can often jump into tier 2 or even tier 1 because they don't have as many people competing for jobs. I work at what's considered tier one for my country, and it's maybe 3/4 of people's first international gig.
by chilagringa
Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:13 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
Replies: 10
Views: 14421

Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job

No, but it seems to be the pattern. If you have a toxic admin that's another thing but most people would know that already. The admin at my school for all their faults don't get all pissy and do the right thing when someone announces their intention to leave.
by chilagringa
Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:49 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
Replies: 10
Views: 14421

Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job

Well, all my colleagues that moved on to killer, tier-one gigs all put in their notice in October before they had found new jobs. Then they hit the fairs with great references in hand and are now all making a whack ton of dough at great schools.
by chilagringa
Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:02 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job
Replies: 10
Views: 14421

Re: How to ask for references & chances of landing a job

In IT there's the expectation that you will move on. If you announce your leaving with plenty of warning I don't see how it would strain relations. I know some people at my school that look for jobs behind the admin's back and those are the ones that piss people off.
by chilagringa
Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:01 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
Replies: 15
Views: 30919

Re: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?

Leadership salaries at my school are three times what teachers make, so there's that.
by chilagringa
Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:31 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?
Replies: 15
Views: 30919

Re: What is your greatest motivator and biggest regret?

I wish I had started teaching (or, hell, had a real job) by my mid-twenties so I would have some decent savings by now. Oh well, I'm a late bloomer.

Motivator... I just dig it.
by chilagringa
Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:11 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: School Hours/Working Hours -survey
Replies: 6
Views: 11750

Re: School Hours/Working Hours -survey

How does a 4 day schedule work? Do students take 3 of a given class during that time?