Dubai primary school teachers

[butternut3]

Hey,

Can someone please help me with this school query !
I was wondering if British and American schools in Dubai has native British and American teachers or they have mixed nationalities teachers ?

Thanks

Lived in Dubai with DCs for a while. Most schools will have native teachers but support staff tends to be mixed. I would be more interested in the quality of the teaching rather than the nationality of the teachers tbh.

Many schools have information on their website and a good mixture of nationalities. I've noticed that schools following the UK curriculum generally have a majority of staff who trained or have taught in the UK.

My post saying lots of weak teachers go to middle east has been deleted for some reason

let me rephrase. I do a lot of teacher capabilities. A number of those are now working in Dubai and other Middle East countries (fact)

I know of Australian, New Zealand and South Africian teachers in British schools in the ME (as well as English and Scottish).
I'd say all will have native level English, and will follow English curriculum, but may not have trained in England.

Genuinely curious, are you able to elaborate further?
My DP is hellbent on us moving there (and I am not!)

Lots of young lrish teachers go to the Middle East for a few years and there is absolutely no reason to believe they are weak. They are just the usual cross section of poor/good/ excellent. They are very highly supervised in the schools even though they may not always agree with the system as it goes against their training eg. Formal education at a very early age. Any l have coma across when they return are very professional.

Teachers in good (generally the most expensive) international schools abroad somewhere like Dubai have a lot of competition for their roles. They need to have experience to get the job.

Teachers in less good schools need less good experience. They get paid less/have lower packages too.

I know of teachers who work in international schools in Europe to get experience in order to go to Dubai where they can get better overall packages and afford household help.

Plenty of my very strong colleagues work in Dubai. Most do it for the pay packets and adventure. There are more than enough jobs going here in the UK to provide all teachers along the bad to outstanding spectrum jobs.

I had a colleague join my school last year as the school she worked at in Dubai was so awful she chose to come back to the UK as she didn't want it on her resume. She's hands down one of the best teachers I've ever worked with.

Also, I can't imagine schools like RGS tarnishing their name overseas by hiring bad teachers.

Hey all!

I also want to add one thing . I asked this because my son is not so fluent in English and still comfortable with mother tongue. However, we of course want him to send him to a English speaking school. We want him to be fluent in the language.

You would be surprised
the referencing process seems weak
in many cases they are never seen teaching prior to recruitment

I am of course not saying that all teachers who move abroad are weak just that in my experience teachers who have found it hard in the uk state system seem to move there and often only do a year but that year is surely at expense of children

I have a very good friend who is a headteacher at a Dubai school. The teachers seem to be English speaking of varying nationalities but mostly British.

Thank you everyone for your response!

I am targeting top British and American schools in Dubai. Planning to apply to not more than 5-6 schools. Hoping we get a seat in one of them . If not this year then next. Wish me luck.
We live in London and move to Dubai only if we get a good school. We can postpone our plan to the year whenever we get a seat. Hoping the quality of education and teachers are superb there. ( else we will have to move back to London , moving countries is surely not easy though , wish me luck. )

Thanks again.

Can you apply without residency? Certainly we couldn't without KSA residency permits.

Not sure they are necessarily "superb". Known several families return to uk for secondary.

@LIZS hey yeah. Even we plan to do primary abroad and return to either London or India for secondary or May be a little before that. Thank you

My mate moved to Qatar with her husband a few years ago from the UK.

He got a job as a headteacher over there with a great remuneration package.

Originally they were only going for 2-3 years to save up some cash to buy a house etc.

They've been there for over 7 years with no plans to come back any time soon.