Teaching Jobs Abroad for Newly Qualified Teachers
Posted by admin on 8th August and posted in Students Abroad
newly qualified teachers (NQTs) can prevent themselves from the beginning of their international teaching career as soon as they are qualified because they have to find misleading information on the Internet.
How does this happen? When NQTs search the Web for teaching jobs abroad, the company that hosts international teaching recruitment fairs usually show up on the first page of results. And yes, the first information they are exposed, contains the criteria for selecting candidates invited to participate in one of these recruitment fairs is that candidates have at least two years practical teaching experience.
These organizations pre-screen candidates for the international school recruiters. While this may save time for customers, it may deprive them of a number of exemplary candidates who have recently had their credentials NQTs.
NQTs are mistaken if they think their inexperience means they are not an attractive candidate for many international schools.
NQTs are attractive employment opportunities for many reasons:
first NQTs are cheap, if a school operates a salary scale based on qualifications and years of teaching experience.
second NQTs have up-to-date teaching pedagogy and methodology which will bring a fresh perspective to the experienced teachers who are already employed by the school.
third in an educational environment that is using information technology more and more, NQTs bring groundbreaking techniques to take advantage of groundbreaking technology.
4th NQTs who apply for overseas teaching jobs are determined and passionate about teaching abroad. They must be to find positions in spite of the wealth of information that says they can not. Therefore, they are more likely to adapt quickly to the challenges of living in another country.
So how does an NQT find a job teaching abroad?
They do it by means of job-hunting strategies, bypass participant recruitment fairs. One of the best places to find teaching vacancies in international schools is TES Jobs website. While the website is linked to a newspaper in Britain, the # 1 resource for teachers of all nationalities who are looking for teaching jobs abroad.
TES Jobs website has vacancies listed that say “NQTs welcome.” Those are the schools that newly qualified teachers should use it in the first instance. But not only, as many international appointing authority should include a ‘wish list’ of skills and experience in their advertised vacancies, but often realize that they may end up employing someone with fewer qualifications.
How NQTs improve their CV? < br />
There can be no argument that NQTs have two years of teaching experience … But they can ensure that their resume shines with additional skills and experience that will cause international school recruiters to overlook their lack of practical teaching experience. This may take a little time and effort on the part of the NQT, but the payoff will far out weigh the costs:
one. NQTs can get a TEFL qualification which can be done online or face to face with a TEFL teacher training provider. A TEFL course will provide the NQT with techniques and tactics to support second language learners that they will encounter in an international school. It can also count as experience with multilingual and multicultural students.
second NQTs can volunteer to spend time (or get a part-time positions) tutoring to students who have English as an additional language. A recommendation letter from the parents can prove that the NQT has sought opportunities to interact in multilingual situations and have had practice with the needs of a learner trying to learn a subject in a language they are familiar.
third NQTs can volunteer to coach or work as an assistant coach for a multi-cultural teams. The coach can then write a recommendation letter for showing the applicant’s willingness to engage in leisure activities and experience to handle in multi-cultural situations.
4th Complete a teaching practice in an international school is an excellent step in the right direction for an NQT, if the situation arises. Whether the international school is the local college to teach the NQT is involved or if the NQT is unable to travel abroad, one recommendation letter from the principal a prominent international school can not be beaten in value. To participate in an international school to complete a teaching practicum is not possible, then the candidate should consider making arrangements to visit one while on holiday abroad.
Teaching abroad are not just for the experienced teacher, there are plenty of vacancies suitable for NQTs. If you are not sure you will get a job teaching overseas then by all means, apply for domestic jobs at the same time … But do not cut yourself off from the opportunity to earn more money for less stress and just enjoy your first experience as a professional educator, just because you have received incorrect or incomplete information!
Kelly Blackwell has taught abroad in over 10 years, began as a newly qualified teacher himself. She has refined a number of successful job search strategies over the years that the exploitation of resources, to circumvent the international teaching recruitment fairs. NQT or not, ensure you a teaching job abroad with his proven strategies.