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    Empowering Expat Teachers Series

    3 Reasons I Recommend Moving Abroad to Teach

    • Categories Empowering Expat Teachers Series, Inspire & Empower, Middle East, Thought-provoking
    • Date February 22, 2022

    Why I recommend moving abroad to teach

    Sorcha Coyle, Empowering Expat Teachers

    Having been an expat teacher for the last 10 years in Qatar and Dubai, I’ve a hundred reasons why I recommend moving abroad to teach, but I believe that this is the most important one. Let me give you a clue… It is something I used to pay religiously every month. I would spend half my teaching salary on it. I felt very helpless and frustrated by it as I saw it as “dead money.” Yes, you’ve guessed it- RENT. The inescapable obligatory bane of all of our lives. When you get your ideal teaching job abroad, you won’t have to use your salary to pay for your rent ever again. Let me repeat that. YOU WON’T HAVE TO USE YOUR SALARY TO PAY FOR YOUR RENT EVER AGAIN.

    In all teaching packages abroad, either accommodation or a rental allowance is provided so you do not spend your salary on rent. However, depending on the type of package provided by your school abroad, you can boost your savings! In some teaching packages, your accommodation will be provided free of charge as part of your contract, so you aren’t spending any of your salary. In other teaching packages, you will receive a generous rent allowance. With this, you can decide where to live, how much rent to pay, or if you’d like to have housemates. Most importantly, you can set a rent limit and decide how much of the allowance you’d like to spend on rent and how much you’d like to save. So you’re actually saving even more money!

    Check this out!

    I was born in 1986 so I am part of the Millennial Generation (aka Generation Y). Many of us (teachers included) are finishing university without secure jobs or a steady income. In 2016, research from the Resolution Foundation found Millennials in the UK earned £8,000 less in their 20s than Generation X (those born between mid-1960s and early 1980s), describing Millennials as “on course to become the first generation to earn less than the one before.” Moving abroad to teach can help us save A LOT MORE and buckle this unfortunate trend.

     

    Psst… Read 5 Factors to Consider when Choosing an Expat School HERE

    According to the 2016 Millennials & Money research carried out by Edelman Financial Services Sector, 1 in 2 of us don’t have enough money for day-to-day needs. Our generation is burdened with huge student loans and high rents to pay (2 in 5 of us have debt), which stop us from saving. In fact, 60% of us are unable to save for the long-term, so we are forced to rent long-term rather than buying our own property. If our parents can’t help us out, some of us may never ever own our own homes. Teaching abroad and saving as much as we can may help us save more quickly for a mortgage deposit for our first home.

    Thanks to my time as an expat teacher in Qatar and Dubai, I have saved six figures, which I have used to purchase 2 beautiful properties (a 4-bedroomed house in my home country and a 3-bed apartment in Spain), start a profitable investment portfolio, complete my Masters, set up a side business, and travel the world. I have fulfilled these goals solely from my earnings as an expat teacher, so if I can do it, you can too!

    Psst… Read 5 Factors to Consider when Choosing an Expat School HERE

    Hi, I’m Sorcha! I’ve been an expat teacher in the Gulf for over 10 years now and I run the Empowering Expat Teachers community, whose mission is to empower future and current expat teachers to lead personally, professionally, and financially rewarding lives. I am especially excited about the financial empowerment aspect of expat teaching because it allowed me to save six figures in my first teaching job in Qatar and if I could do it, anyone can! I’m also a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and I am currently completing my level 7 ILM Coaching and Mentoring qualification. If you would like daily CV, cover letter and money tips, follow me on Instagram or Facebook.

    In my free time, you can find me either planning my next bucket list trip (Covid permitting, of course) or fighting the urge to Google the ending of a movie I’ve just started watching (I *HATE* suspense)!

    A huge thank you to Sorcha for this months Empowering Expat Teachers Series. We’re already looking forward to reading the March edition “How I saved €100,000 in 4 years as a Teacher”. Sorcha is also hosting our upcoming CPD webinar “Teaching in Dubai – 10 Things You Need to Know“.

    P.S. Have you checked out our upcoming CPD webinar?

    Find out more!
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    Virtual Conference for Teachers: NQT Picnic 27th July 2022

    June 14, 2022 No Comments

    NQT Picnic is a specially designed online event for NQT’s in July 2022.

    It is a daunting experience starting your very first teaching position – whether it is subbing or your own post! College seems like a long time ago now and you may be starting to feel a tad nervous.

    Following the huge success of NQT Fest & Picnic in 2021, we are delighted to share this special event for NQT’s in July 2022 with you!

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    Free Resources for Teachers: End of School Year Activities

    June 9, 2022 No Comments

    Free Resource for Teachers – End of School Year Activities!

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    11 Ideas for End of Year School Activities

    June 8, 2022 No Comments

    What an exciting time of the year! Your main lessons and topics are complete and the pupils are getting excited for their summer holidays. It can be a challenging time to keep pupils engaged in classroom lessons due to exciting events on the horizon like school tours or sports days, so I like to keep things light and fun and still try to ensure the learning is taking place.

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    3 Things Teachers Should Know Before They Start Teaching

    June 8, 2022 No Comments

    Ciara McGuane is the Summer Course Director for Rahoo.ie.

    Her career highlights include being filmed by BBC London teaching in the classroom and guest-lecturing at the Institute of Education in London. She has worked as a teacher, school leader, teacher trainer and initial teacher training tutor prior to setting up Rahoo.

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    3 Classroom Management Mistakes to Avoid

    May 18, 2022 No Comments

    This is always a hot topic for teachers and so important to get it right.
    Here are some mistakes that teachers have shared with us when they did our EPV Summer Course on Classroom Management with Niamh Byrne, Irish Primary Teacher.
    We have dipped in and out of the CPD course to learn what to do instead!

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    The Secret to Successful Lesson Planning!

    May 17, 2022 No Comments

    Why do we remember the words of lyrics we haven’t heard in years? Why do some experiences stick in our heads more than others? Something made them memorable!

    Make your lessons stick by trying to make some aspect of it different. This could be as simple as playing music (we have played classical music when students were working independently in the past) or hooking them into the lesson with mystery tasks or controversial questions that spark debate.

    When planning ask yourself: What can I do to make this lesson memorable?

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