I’m a teacher in the states with a Teaching Certificate and two years of experience in public schools. I have over 10 years of experience in education, my TEFL and AP experience.
I wanted to ask for guidance on what kind of jobs I should apply for, and what a standard teaching salary is with a State Teaching License plus 10 years of experience in education?
I’m currently applying for jobs and am being flooded with offers, but I don’t know what’s appropriate to ask for. I’m a step 11 here in the States, and my salary is competitive, but I don’t know what is realistic to ask for in Taiwan.
Also, people have referrenced that I should apply to “real” International Schools. Is there a list of the ones that are considered legit?
It depends what you are after. Money or adventure?
I was making about 80k as a certified ENL teacher in NY. No way you’ll make that here.
But if you want adventure you could teach in Matsu for a year for the government program. Or way up in the godforsaken lands in central Taiwan.
There are more legit international schools but the offbrand ones seem fine from my POV. (My nephew attends one in Taoyuan and kids of friends have attended others— not TAS or TES— and they are fine . Dunno much about the pay structure tho
On top of that there is a cap of NT$1,090,000 per year per teacher (not including the flights) and it hasn’t been increased even with the recent salary increases…
Meaning that the school needs to pull the funds elsewhere to cover the salary, NHI, Labor insurance and yearly bonus for teachers on the higher brackets (if total monthly amount including all is $90,833…
Teachers are often told by the school that they can’t afford to pay the amount actually offered in the contract!
You look at the offers since you are flooded with them and choose from amongst the ones that pay more.
It’s not too difficult right .
Lots of threads about the up to date public school positions salaries here.
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