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The expat teaching life has been so good to me and has allowed to do and achieve things way beyond what I could have ever imagined as a secondary school teacher working and barely surviving in the UK. I’ll always be grateful to expat life for meeting many of my best lifelong friends from [...]
As an expat teacher, how do you know when it’s time to go home? This is a question that always lurks in the back of my mind. I’ve been an expat teacher for 8 years now - I spent 4 years in Qatar and I’m now in my 4th year in the UAE. In [...]
What happens when you move abroad? When you move to a new country to teach, you will most likely have to take a medical test to show you are healthy in order to secure your residence visa. In the UAE, expats take a blood test to check for HIV/Aids, Hepatitis B and C, leprosy, [...]
First of all, you must know what to expect in a good teaching contract and package before saying YES… DO NOT accept a job until you’ve seen the contract- that’s perfectly normal here and you can’t say yes to a 2-year commitment without knowing all the nitty gritty details. When you get offered the job [...]
1) Find teaching job vacancies, using my cheatsheet of 8 websites that advertise jobs at good schools abroad! 2) Research the schools, their location, ethos, student demographic, curriculum, and reputation, using these 7 ways.Decide if it fits with your personal, professional, and financial goals. 3) Transform your CV and cover letter to suit each of your applications to [...]
First of all, this article has been inspired by Zach Holz, the Happiest Teacher, in an article he wrote last month called “House Hacking for All.” I highly recommend you read it here as it shows how Zach has saved a fortune of his rent allowance this year, but in a different way to [...]
I am usually asked the best way to transfer money from an EXPAT bank to a HOME bank and I answer this question in an article I wrote last year- check it out here. That is because when we are earning abroad and saving as much as we can, we tend to send it [...]
