New Survey: How many people are leaving your international school at the end of this school year?
A new survey has arrived!
Topic: How many people are leaving your international school at the end of this school year?
It is always a mix of emotions when you or your colleagues are leaving the school. Change is good, but change can be hard. It is not the best feeling in the world to find out one of your closest colleagues is leaving. On the flip side, you might be elated to hear that a certain annoying colleagues is leaving as well!
There are many reasons why teachers leave their current international school. Maybe they have come to the conclusion that the benefits are just too low for the lifestyle that they want to live. If you are worrying too much about money, it might be time to move on to another international school.
Teachers also might be leaving because the international school that they are at is going in a direction that does not make sense for their career anymore. A new director might have started this year and is making too many changes to the school that you just don’t agree with.
There are many, many more reasons teachers decide to leave.
International schools know that teachers come and go for a variety of reasons, but it’s true that they don’t want too many people leaving at once. It could give a bad reputation to the school, having so many staff leaving at once. It could also cost the school a fair amount of money trying to recruit and replace the teachers who are leaving. If you need to recruit for so many people, it is also possible that the school won’t find that many quality candidates.
But, many international schools go through cycles of low and high turnover rates. It is pretty normal. The best international schools just know how to deal with those cycles in the best ways.
Go to the homepage of International School Community and submit your vote today on How many people are leaving your international school at the end of this school year?
You can check out the latest voting results here.
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We actually have a comment topic related this to this issue. It is called: Describe what kinds of teachers work here (local vs. expat, nationality, qualifications [or lack there of], etc.) and staff turnover rate.
Right now there are over 670 individual comments (about 100s of different international schools) in this comment topic on our website. Here are a few of them:
“Spanish teachers are Guatemalan, most other teachers are from North America. Turnover varies with most renewing their contract at least once. Large percentage of teachers have a masters and there are local opportunities to work towards a masters at a reduced cost.” – The American International School of Guatemala (Colegio Maya) (Guatemala City, Guatemala)– 40 Comments
“All teaching staff are fully qualified. Most are British, with some Australians, South Africans and Filipina. turnover is high. Last year 40% left. Most leave due to the lowish salary rather than because they are unhappy with the school.” – Rasami (Thai-British) International School (Bangkok, Thailand) – 17 Comments
“There seem to be a lot of Australian, Canadian, British and American teachers. A few New Zealanders, too. In all grades up to Grade 2 there are local assistants in each class. From talking to the teachers here, there is a turnover of staff, but it’s not huge. People seem to be pretty happy with the school.” – NIST International School (Bangkok, Thailand) – 65 Comments
