Moving abroad to teach

[Naataaliiee]

Just wondering if anyone has experience of moving abroad to continue their career in teaching?
I’ve been a primary school teacher for around 10 years now and I feel totally stuck in a rut with everything here. I feel more and more overworked and I’m spending less time with my family, without even having the benefit of being well paid for the hours I put in. My friend works in Qatar in an English school and loves it, but she moved over as a single woman and has met her husband there.
My husband’s job can be transferred to other countries quite easily. I have a 3 year old and I’m due my second child mid next year.
In terms of where I’d move to, I’m not entirely sure! The salary and work/life balance of the UAE is tempting, but it is a huge culture change.
Moving and continuing to teach is something i’d like to consider in the next 5 years or so, so just wanted to ask to see whether anyone has any experience of this? I’d hate to get ‘too old’ and regret it!

 

[1x2x3x4x]

Just wondering if anyone has experience of moving abroad to continue their career in teaching?
I’ve been a primary school teacher for around 10 years now and I feel totally stuck in a rut with everything here. I feel more and more overworked and I’m spending less time with my family, without even having the benefit of being well paid for the hours I put in. My friend works in Qatar in an English school and loves it, but she moved over as a single woman and has met her husband there.
My husband’s job can be transferred to other countries quite easily. I have a 3 year old and I’m due my second child mid next year.
In terms of where I’d move to, I’m not entirely sure! The salary and work/life balance of the UAE is tempting, but it is a huge culture change.
Moving and continuing to teach is something i’d like to consider in the next 5 years or so, so just wanted to ask to see whether anyone has any experience of this? I’d hate to get ‘too old’ and regret it!

I moved abroad for two years to teach in dubai (secondary) and I have to say it put me off teaching to the extent that I changed careers completely when I came back.

Whilst you do have a better work/life balance the schools are usually just a complete shitshow full of incompetent people in SLT roles who would NEVER get them in the UK. They’ve usually spent years out of the British system and you can tell.

You have very few employment rights and they can really take the piss with that. I also found the parents to be extremely intense, entitled and downright rude often because they felt like because they paid they owned us. I think they’re even more intense in primary schools too.

Saying all that, I did enjoy my two years for what it was (almost like a holiday) and I got to travel a fair bit. I would always say do it so you don’t have regrets but consider that then returning to the UK to teach (if you wanted to) would be even more difficult because you’ve been out the system for so long. I also felt like British children didn’t get the same standard of education in the Middle East that they did here but I could see the benefits of it more in primary than in secondary.

 

[Rlaw1978]

My friend is currently living and teaching in Amman. Her names Verity & she’s absolutely loving it. She has a blog you might find helpful and is on Facebook under the name fromkiddytoamman. She’s super friendly and will answer and questions you have. (this is not an advert by the way).
Blog- https://fromkiddytoamman.uk/

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

I know a lot of people who work in Dubai and for the most part they love it.

I do think you should go out there and try it whether it is Dubai, Korea, EU etc. If you hate it you can always come back or try a different country