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teaching abroad
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:01:50 -0500 (EST)
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hello... in the past few weeks, thefabulous Jen Locke (hi jen!! it's
'Nancy'! :}) has posted a few messages concerning her search for employment
overseas. i too am looking for a position similiar to this. if anyone has
more information, please email me about any other organizations or ideas
they may have, or experiences they may have had w/ overseas teaching... or
with the peace corp because i am planning to apply soon. if i
recall, someone posted a message about teaching on a native american
reservation. i would like to hear more about that experience, and is there
even employmnet for art educators on the reservations.
if anyone has ANYTHING to share about this topic(or anything that pertains
to it), please o please share with me!
THANKY THANKY THANKY!!
Kathleen Vales
vales01
>
> For those of you who have expressed an interest in teaching art
> overseas, I am forwarding these contacts to the entire listserve.
>
> The European Council of International Schools, Inc.
>
> There are three recruiting fairs they conduct:
> Vancouver, Canada on 16-19 February
> London, England on 5-8 February
> Melbourne, Australia (sorry, didn't write down the Feb. dates)
>
> contact Jim McKay, Executive Officer
> European Council of International Schools, Inc.
> 21 Lavart St.
> Petersfield, Hants
> GU32, 3 EC, United Kingdom
> Europe
>
> Their poster boasted 94% of the teachers that found jobs had 2 or
> more years of experience.
>
> But there are several teachers here at IST who are in their first year of teaching..
>
> An overseas recruiting body in the US outside of the ISS is the
> University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls:
>
> You need to send $5.00 for a registration package to:
>
> Overseas Placement Service for Educators
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, Iowa
> 506-0390
> (319) 273-2083
>
> Finally, the service I was hired through is the International Schools
> Services (ISS). The ISS places roughly 50% of overseas teachers in
> "International Schools", which, I believe, is in schools that have
> registered or sign up with ISS.
>
> Typically, international administrators recruit through ISS, UNI, and
> ECIS combined, and travel from one fair to another until they have
> filled their vacancies. There are usually two rounds of fairs: one in
> February and one in early June. The June recruiting fairs are fewer
> and are either new vacancies that have come up unexpectedly or
> were not filled at the previous fairs. I think in general, that the
> best positions are filled at the earliest fairs.
>
> There are many, many more "international" schools that may be
> more locally based or are not registered with all three services.
> In fact, there is another "international" school here in Dar es Salaam
> that isn't even listed in ISS's International Schools Reference Book,
> published by Peterson's and there is also one in Zanzibar that is
> only listed in the ECIS reference book. If you want to register with
> ISS and find out about their recruiting fairs, you can request that
> information from ISS:
>
> International Schools Services
> P.O. Box 5910
> Princeton, NJ 08543
> (609) 452-0990
> Fax: (609) 452-2690
>
> Typically, you need to register early for these fairs, November or
> early December.
>
> Hope this helps in your search,
>
> Regards,
> Teresa Tipton
>
>
>
> From: Faerie01
>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
> To: ttipton.tz
> Subject: Re: teaching abroad
>
> Teresa,
> Can you forward the information you saw posted? Thanks...
> You mentioned that there were a number of teachers at your school that did
> not have experience- were they right out of college? And did they all use ISS
> to find their jobs?
>
> Thanks again for the info!
> Jen locke
>
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