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by twofromusa
Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:52 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Masters Degree in IT, want to teach abroad
Replies: 10
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Masters Degree in IT, want to teach abroad

Hello,
I'm new to this site, but greatly appreciate it as a resource so far!
My wife and I are hoping to move to Eastern Europe or Middle East. We're US citizens with US masters degrees and currently based in Louisiana.

She has a teaching certificate with about 7 years of teaching experience.

I don't have a teaching certificate. My bachelor's and master's degree are in information systems and I'd love to teach elementary or middle school computer classes and for us to be a teaching couple rather than my being a trailing husband.

We registered with ISS and another site and hope to move abroad for the 2020-2021 school year, which gives me about 12 months to figure out what to do, and I don't want to be an IT guy at school.

I'm looking for recommendations for doing something like Teacher Ready. I realize that Teach Now is a better program, but I’m currently employed full time and not sure if (without a current prospect of a teaching job abroad for either one of us) I can commit to quitting my job to do 3 months of student teaching required by Teach Now. Will it be of any value since I don't have teaching experience?

The other option is to do nothing and just go as a trailing spouse and do substitute teaching or some odd jobs at the school if there are any. It's not an ideal position to be in, but maybe not too bad since we don't have any other dependents going with us. In addition to working as an IT professional, I also have several years of professional photography experience (studio, event and documentary) and maybe the school will have a need for something like this as well.

In other words, I'm not too picky and definitely not afraid of any kind of work. I do put a very high value on education, especially since our society is global now.

Sorry for the long post.
Thank you!