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Teaching couple each with 6 years of IB experience in medium-high demand positions.

Location: Southern China at a Strong Not-for-profit T2 International School

Salary Each: $46000USD, plus 25% in RMB for living expenses, plus 10% for retirement (all taxes paid by school)
Insurance: Full International and premiums paid by school, minus USA with the option to add at an additional cost
Flights: $2200 each
Housing: 15500 RMB a month (combined)
PD: $1250 USD (each)
Settling In and Shipping: $3000 and $1500 (each)
Visas Costs are covered by the school
Life and Longterm disability coverage

Hi,

With the recruiting season about to start, I was curious to hear peoples opinions on how BREXIT may impact the job market in Europe. With three potential pathways; leave with no-deal, leave with a deal or stay, there is a lot of uncertainty. Do you expect to see more openings this year, less, no change or something different?

Please try and keep this about the impact to the job market for teachers and not about personal political beliefs.

The wording is technically Master of Professional Education for the Canadian option.

https://www.edu.uwo.ca/graduate-educati ... index.html

Having done three years in the middle east at a large international school the idea of needing secondary insurance seems excessive. If you are at a decent school you will have great insurance and access to very good private hospitals. You will be covered worldwide with the only concern is the USA is sometimes not covered. If you are American then you may want to investigate options for when you are home in summer.

Teacher unions are not a thing internationally. Some countries have labour laws that can be helpful, the ME is not one of those areas. You have your signed contract with various stipulations written into it. The better the school the better they will stick to said stipulations.

CIGNA and AETNA are two of the larger insurance companies that schools work with. I'm sure there are others too.

Depends on the calibre of school you are looking to move to. Top schools may question the value of said Master whereas middle to lower calibre schools will gladly accept it.

Think of, how can you market the value added to teaching and learning from the master's degree when interviewing. This applies to any master's degree.

Im in a similar situation, recruiting next year and trying to figure out the plan. I have the same question of what fair to attend and also how competitive are we (teaching couple) to the top tier of schools. Sorry to hijack the thread.

Background
- teaching couple both with 6 years of teaching experience at two different IB schools (3 years at each school)
- PYP PE teacher with a masters, Grade Level Leader experience and IB curric development work
- Secondary Science with a masters, DP Bio and Chem, MYP 2-5 Gen Sci and HOD
- both of us coach various sports
- Looking for Europe ideally

I know we have pieces of valuable experience but are unsure if it would be enough to get an interview. Also, how often do those schools sign before the fairs or do most of them want to have a face to face interview for whatever reason.

Hello,

I've searched the forum to find the answer but came up empty. This is all for preparation next year.

QUESTION 1
I am a Head of Department, as one of my references on Search would it be useful to have a colleague in my department complete a reference? I have leadership, parents and what not already but was thinking about somebody who could talk to my effectiveness of leading a department.

If yes, would I request a teaching or a leadership reference from them via Search?

QUESTION 2
If I am looking for leadership or teaching positions next year, I should have references for my teaching and my leadership, correct? They are both categories of references you can select on Search. Would it be reasonable to have one referee fill out two references, one from each perspective? This person is an MYP Coordinator and the Assistant Principal.

Thanks

I think the bigger piece is leadership and leadership's comfort of the school size.

If you have leadership who understand how a small school functions it will be great. If you get leadership with experience at larger schools and do not understand smaller schools there will be challenges. The inverse I find true as well.

Currently, I am at a ~750 student school and there is less of a community feel than I had at a ~1800 student school. Leadership and culture of the school played a big part in it, we do not have a staff room at the current school while we did at the big school.