So a little bit of background... I was teaching grade 4 French Immersion in Saskatchewan last year. It was a great experience, but I definitely missed the business of life in and around Toronto. I decided to get my qualification for teaching high school English. Literature has always been my passion and I wanted a chance to work with higher level material and students.
Considering the job market for teachers in Ontario, you might know that there aren't many jobs for English teachers there. I had a teacher friend going over to the UK and I've ALWAYS wanted to take a year abroad. So.... I applied and after a Skype interview, was offered a job in Slough, UK about 20 minutes outside of London. I decided, on the spot, to accept and thus began a summer of gathering documents, applying for passports/visas and waiting for everything to fall into place.
Well, everything did fall into place! I am currently in Slough and I have just finished a week of training and a week of PD/teaching. It's been a fantastic, if busy, two weeks though. If anyone is wondering, I went with the recruiting agency UTeach. I feel that they have a lot of pros and a lot of cons, just like any agency probably does. Message me if you'd like to know more about my experience :)
There's a lot of differences in the culture and the teaching that I've come across, so that's mainly what this blog will be about. I'll hopefully include a bit of history mixed in with my own day-to-day experiences.
Hope you enjoy! Talk to you soon.
CG
Update: Okay...I quit my secondary job at the end of December and decided to start supply teaching. Redbox Teaching Agency has been great in providing me with steady work and I have so much more free time to travel or relax - definitely a good choice. I was beginning to resent spending my year abroad planning and marking without cease.
My blog has turned more into a travel blog and it is definitely less about England and teaching than I had originally planned. Things never really do go as planned, do they? ;)
Update: Okay...I quit my secondary job at the end of December and decided to start supply teaching. Redbox Teaching Agency has been great in providing me with steady work and I have so much more free time to travel or relax - definitely a good choice. I was beginning to resent spending my year abroad planning and marking without cease.
My blog has turned more into a travel blog and it is definitely less about England and teaching than I had originally planned. Things never really do go as planned, do they? ;)
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