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Teaching Jobs Overseas Topics: international teaching, teaching overseas, teaching abroad, American and international schools, overseas jobs, international employment, etc. |
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"Teaching in a US public school is not for everyone. I have a strong personality but I am a bad policeman." |
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I'm teaching with higher standards here, and at a higher level (with younger students) than I did back in America. It's really incredible. For one night's homework, I can assign four pages of out of a workbook, a chapter to read, a composition to write, and the students DO the work—and on time! I'm blown away! We mostly have discussions in class—the kind of teaching I always imagined myself doing. The kids here work really hard. They go to public school during the day and go to language lessons and/or tutoring in the evening for a total of eight different classes a day. I wish American students had a greater appreciation for the educational opportunities that they have. Besides enjoying my students, I enjoy living in Greece. When I'm not working, I'm living in a newly built apartment that is only 100 meters from the Gulf of Corinth—at night I can hear the waves crashing onto the beach. (I'm in the village of Pitsa, in the "state" of Corinthia, in the area of Greece called the Peloponnese, and I'm right on the northern coast, which is to the west of the city of Corinth.) My employers pay my rent and utilities, so all I have to worry about is my internet/phone bill." —Wendy Irwing
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International
Community
Why Teaching Overseas?
"What
has really surprised me is the amazing vocabulary of the students
here. They put our public school students to shame. 
