So, at the moment you are thinking about moving overseas to work in an International school, the main question on your mind is probably, how different are these schools to my current school?
The great news is that if you are a qualified teacher the worldwide demand for British, US and International Baccalaureate schools has seen a huge boom in recent years and this trend is predicted to continue.
Often people think teaching overseas means that they will be teaching students who do not speak English and will be based in local national schools that are very remote. They envision village or inner-city schools with limited resources and harsh conditions.
While these opportunities do exist, the jobs referred to in our website are International School Teaching Jobs.
These are schools that operate outside of the state school system in a foreign country. They are not schools for the teaching of English as a foreign language, although they may have children who are English language learners. International schools use a curriculum and/or a language of instruction that is different than that of the host country and they are as different from each other as the children being taught.
In each country there is a large variety of International schools. Some will have been in existence for many years, while many are relatively new or even looking for their first intake of staff. Countries such as China, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Hong Kong have thousands of expatriates from hundreds of different countries living and working together, a perfect recipe for International schools.
Although there is a wide variety of different ethnicities and languages, the language of instruction is almost always English.
