Get a Job Teaching Overseas!

Some of my friends are coming to New York for this year's Search Associates recruiting fair.   If you are a licensed US teacher and want to teach overseas at an international school attending these fairs is like being in a candy store. 

How fun it is to shop from table to table, scheduling interviews with the 200 schools that attend.  There are multiple schools from Turkey, schools in China, South American schools, and the very competitive (if you're trying to get a job) European schools.  There is still another fair, the last-chance fair, around June or so, if you still think you want to move to a foreign country this fall.  Otherwise, know that noww is the main recruiting time and you might as well wait until next winter to interview. 

If you're wondering where to find overseas teaching jobs for already certified teachers, check out UNI Overseas Recruiting Fair, or Search Associates, or the Council of International Schools.

UNI may be a bit better for teachers with less overseas teaching experience but this is not a rigid rule or anything. I used UNI to get a job at NEHS in Taiwan in 1999.

UPDATE: Here is the web address for the Department of Defense overseas schools: Link. 

UPDATE:  Here is the web address for the US State Department Schools.  There are about THREE HUNDRED SCHOOLS!  (many are tiny though):  Link.

If you are considering some really far-out options (Uzbekistan, Afghanistan) here is a small umbrella group that is US-funded and I can't resist thinking is as much a den of spys as  group of teachers: link. 
And finally, the single most concise, no-nonsense  list of links for teachers looking to get an overseas job is at the  US State Department site.