Teaching Overseas

Teaching Overseas
Author: Kent M. Blakeney
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: International schools
ISBN: 9781537533063

The ideal book for someone considering making the leap overseas or has not been overseas very long. The book includes everything you need to know from learning about the structure of an overseas school, learning how to find the right job, moving, and adjusting to life overseas.

Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction

Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction
Author: Sandra McKay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1992-03-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194328142

Looks at the way in which social, political, economic, and cultural factors can influence the language classroom. This book also contains practical suggestions on how to cope with the professional problems and misunderstandings which can occur in overseas contexts. It is useful for native-speaker teachers of English preparing to work overseas.

Teaching Overseas: Sanity Optional

Teaching Overseas: Sanity Optional
Author: Ken Bobrosky
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2016-05-30
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1365151980

Teaching Overseas: Sanity Optional delves into stories and issues that take you beyond the every day realities of teaching abroad. This book chronicles the misadventures we encountered over four years in a Turkish school, that the reader will probably regard as fiction. The book consists of 100%% TRUE stores, anecdotes, situations and resolutions that will astound you and more importantly make you shake your head and just laugh.

Teaching Abroad

Teaching Abroad
Author: Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789622098541

Focuses on North Americans who go to China and Europe, but also discusses attitudes and issues relevant to all of the international community; notes the recent flourishing of international education and developments in educational structures and practice, and takes up the historical development of, and recent changes in, university education in China.

Migrant Teachers

Migrant Teachers
Author: Lora Bartlett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674726340

Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett asserts, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. Highly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to attract educators, approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, India, and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators' perspective, these instructors are excellent employees--well educated and able to teach subjects like math, science, and special education where teachers are in short supply. Despite the additional recruitment of qualified teachers, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Bartlett shows how the framing of these recruited teachers as stopgap, low-status workers cultivates a high-turnover, low-investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts.