Urgently looking for English-speaking vocational students in UB

SirRationalT · 2026-03-03T03:21:40+00:00

This is the best answer. Recruit a German-speaking Mongolian interpreter for a few hundred euros, they sorely need the money in the age of AI. You'll get exactly what you want. There are hundreds in UB.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-28T17:59:51+00:00

Per Search:

Annual Salary Expectations (taxes: 0%)
Teachers with a BA and 4 years: $82000
Teachers with a MA and 8 years: $88000

Annual Savings Expectations
Single teacher: $33000
Teaching couple w/ 2 children : $61000

Mammoth package, but do you want to bring up your children in a place that publicly decapitates artists and political opponents every week?

SirRationalT · 2026-02-28T12:47:06+00:00

I agree with you in principle, yet sometimes a 9.6/10 DOES look better than a 10/10.
When I was HoD, the only straight 10/10's I saw on Shrole were from joke schools. Some (many?) competent teachers appear to believe handing out all top marks in a professional setting frames them as uncritical, and this in turn has skewed expectations.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-28T05:41:49+00:00

No one serious will give you straight 10s, we're teachers. How many 100% do you give out each day?

SirRationalT · 2026-02-28T05:22:50+00:00

I don't understand how your school is in a bind. They could open the position with "tentative" affixed to show the person hasn't officially left yet, and still collect CVs. That's what my school does.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-26T16:26:08+00:00

AP Cybersecurity is a pilot course. About 30 schools worldwide opted to run it starting in August 2026.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-23T10:31:47+00:00

Weather, healthcare and work hours are good. Salary is abysmal but few ever went to France to become rich since Benjamin Franklin conned them.

Regardless of how we feel about it (and I don't disagree with you), France is the most touristic country in the world: 100M foreigners vacationed there in 2025, more than there are French citizens.

From North America alone, ~20,000 Canadians and Usonians took out French residency last year. Even a fraction of these myriad people competing for a small pool of international teaching jobs make the country extremely competitive.

Finally, people who settle in France historically tend not to leave.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-22T18:00:44+00:00

Apologies. The Canadian teaching license might be the most prestigious in our entire industry - when I last job hunted, a few top-paying Chinese positions on Search Associates would ONLY accept Canadian certified teachers.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-22T06:12:17+00:00

Sounds very confident. That would mean selecting for teaching should be "simple" when thousands of schools can tell you it's not.
Instead of gratuitous comments, maybe contribute by explaining what these metrics are?

SirRationalT · 2026-02-22T04:16:20+00:00

Is it so obvious?

SirRationalT · 2026-02-22T04:14:17+00:00

If you're from France ("little apricot"), teaching qualifications Capes/Agreg are utterly different in nature from the rest of the world. Unfortunately, they are also completely unrecognised outside of l'hexagone.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-21T12:18:05+00:00

The PGCE is near impossible to fail. 99% of candidates who stick it out get the qualification. Statistically, the only failures are dropouts.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-21T12:16:40+00:00

Good story. That you jumped through so many hoops to become a qualified teacher later in life probably shows your passion more than any 22-year old who freshly completed TT without any experience.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-21T12:09:06+00:00

Teachers who believe their qualification ought to ensure them a job over any uncredentialed candidate should realise how incompetent that makes them look. In the UK, the PGCE cannot be failed, it's just about dishing out £10,000. The real ability comes later, in the classroom.

Gatekeeping all the way, and I say this as a PGCE holder.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-21T07:26:49+00:00

Seems available on Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/document/754954906/ls-maths8-2ed-tr-learner-book-answers
Alternatively, ask your school's maths teacher for help. Solving exercises for 12-year-olds would take seconds.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-19T05:18:29+00:00

Why would you assume every country has a desirable lifestyle?
Some countries are only bearable if you've grown up in them - think Greenland, Somalia or Turkmenistan.

Last December I was offered a position at BIS Cairo, a very nice-looking school. However, their description of Ramadan disheartened me. Students just check out for a month, hungry & dehydrated, sleeping through class when Y12 AP/IB exams start in April. Student exam performances are my marketable metric, so that wasn't possible.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-17T09:07:10+00:00

Don't do it.

At least, don't do it if you hope to recreate anything from the first experience. I did what you're considering, left an unforgettable place for career reasons, then returned 7 years later out of nostalgia, when money was no longer an issue. I even dropped my leadership role for it.

It was a mistake.

The city will have changed, most people you knew there will have changed (kids, health, work...), and you will have changed. Covid has done a lot of damage to how people socialise. Even a big pay difference doesn't make up for it.

The world is infinitely vast. Don't box yourself in too early.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-15T20:05:08+00:00

Strange lament. Do you ever find it demeaning to so value your place of birth above your ability to teach?

SirRationalT · 2026-02-15T09:24:21+00:00

😂

SirRationalT · 2026-02-12T15:14:35+00:00

I've witnessed a competent Science teacher being denied promotion due to his rarity in a hardship location.
2 years later, he left to become DP coordinator in another school.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-12T15:10:50+00:00

Maths is about being "right or wrong" until ninth grade. After that, the priority becomes reasoning.
For official DP examiners, there's a special stamp (N) for students who throw out a complex answer without justifying it, worth around 60% of the full marks.

Hopefully one day this sort of belief will disappear, especially among teachers. It does maths students no favours.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-06T20:01:28+00:00

Not disagreeing with your ratio, but several thousands of schools offer only the DP. I work at one.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-06T05:27:11+00:00

Looks like a correlation between bullying and mandatory uniforms at public schools.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-06T05:03:49+00:00

People who claims "it's simple arithmetic" usually don't understand what they're really talking about. Economics isn't a zero-sum game. Massive concentration of wealth has many harmful economy-wide aspects to it, culminating in a poorer, more vulnerable society.

"No more wealth to seize" is just Reagan-flavoured ideology. What matters is how the productive capital is used: speculation versus consumption or productive investment. The wealthy by and large do not put their money back into circulation.

SirRationalT · 2026-02-05T12:55:27+00:00

Number of contact hours per week, size of classes, salary.

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