Translate Your Experience to a Job Search

How well do you understand the significance of your COST experience to your future career goals and plans?

What kind of perspectives has COST opened your eyes to in the field of education, in your personal teaching philosophy, in your career aspirations?

Are you ready to teach in a globally distinct classroom?

This toolkit is designed to help you translate the experiences and lessons you learned while participating in COST to your job search, interview, and professional career.  Make your study and teach abroad experience work for you, set you apart, and gain that understanding of what it has meant to you and your career trajectory.  Learn how to take your experiences and make them count!

JOB SEARCH

Now I want to Teach Overseas

So, now you’re home, after having what most likely has been the most enriching experience of your life, and you’re considering the possibility of teaching overseas.  Below are some organizations that can help you keep ‘international’ in your life as a teacher and/or that serve as placement agencies for vacancies in international schools.

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International Opportunities for Teachers

Fulbright Opportunities for Teachers
International Opportunities for Teachers
The Peace Corps
International Baccalaureate Organization – IBO
Support for travel grants through Funds for Teachers

International Schools Recruitment

AAIE – Association for the Advancement of International Education
DoDEA: Department of Defense School
European Council of International Schools
The International Educator Online
International Schools Services
International Schools Association
International Schools Recruitment
International School Services Educator Careers
Council for International Schools
Search Associates
Teach Away
The Bhutan Canada Foundation
UNI-University of Northern Iowa Overseas Recruiting Fair

Teaching English Abroad

The Republic of Georgia
Council for International Educational Exchange: Teach Abroad
The Japan Exchange & Teaching Program (JET)
US Teaching Assistants Program in Austrian Secondary Schools