New Teacher thinnking of moving back to Australia or New Zea

massem83
New Member


TeachaM

Joined: 12 Aug 2008
Posts: 1
Location: Canada

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:27 am

 

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Hi there! I'm new to this board! I am a new teacher (Canadian-- trained in Australia and Canada) looking at moving again -- Ontario has very little opportunities and I would love to try somewhere new. I'm really leaning towards New Zealand as it looks fantastic and they seem to actually NEED teachers! Although after a year in Australia my heart pulls there as well! I would love any suggestions or advice from anyone. I would hopefully be moving with my b/f who is a pilot (looking to build his hours). Any suggestions for two motivated enthusiastic people looking for an exciting move would be helpful!
(I have already been approved for a work holiday visa in NZ!)

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comet555
Super Member



Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 197
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:14 pm

 

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I don't really have any advice, but I thought I'd give you a couple of links.

This link has info for teachers planning to work abroad. There are quite a few discussion about teaching in Australia or New Zealand.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=80

Here's another link that contains a forum about Australia & one for New Zealand. You might find more info there.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/

I'm a Canadian teacher that moved to Australia. We got our visa on my husbands skills and I haven't yet returned back to work, so I really can't comment on what it's like here. I do know that it can be difficult to find full time permanent work in the more desirable coastal cities. So a lot of new teachers in the country end up moving to remote places to find work, or doing relief/subbing. As I said though, I have no firsthand knowledge so I'm just trying to relay what I've read from other people.

I'm going to gues by what you said that you don't have a permanent visa to either Australia or New Zealand. You mentioned a holiday visa which allow you to work in New Zealand. I don't know the specifics for the New Zealand visa but if you an Austrlian holiday working visa then you could stay there for a full year. The catch is though that you could only work for an employer for a maximum of 6 months. So it might be tough to find full time work if you can only stay for 6 months. This would be fine if you only wanted to sub or do short term contracts.

Your other options are to try and get a temp or a permanent visa rather than the working holiday visa. Not sure if you'd qualify but it's worth looking into, particularly if you want to stay longer than a year.

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