What to look for. What to flag. What to negotiate.
You've got the offer. Now comes the part nobody prepares you for — actually reading the contract.
Most international school contracts are written by people who do this every year, for teachers doing it for the first time. That imbalance is exactly how "suitable accommodation" ends up meaning a studio with no kitchen, or a flight entitlement that only pays out if you complete the full contract.
This checklist closes that gap.
What's inside:
Six contract sections covered in full — salary, housing, flights & relocation, health insurance, contract term & exit clauses, and workload
Twelve red flags, explained in plain language, with what to do about each one
A region-by-region negotiation playbook (Middle East, East Asia, South & SE Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) — what's standard, what's actually negotiable, and exact scripts you can use
A net value calculator, so you can work out what an offer is genuinely worth once tax, housing, and cost of living are factored in — because the headline salary is the least useful number on the page
Ten questions to ask on your acceptance call that you won't find answers to in the contract itself
Who it's for: Any teacher with an offer in hand — first contract or fifth — who wants to read it properly before they sign.
13 pages. Twenty minutes to read. One contract clause you almost missed pays for it a hundred times over.
Teach Your Way Around The World
The complete five-step system for landing your first international school teaching job — built from 24 years, five countries, and seven schools' worth of lessons learned the hard way. Covers choosing your region, building an application that actually gets read, timing it right, nailing the interview, and evaluating the offer worth taking.
Instant PDF download. No recycled advice — just what actually works.
Teaching Our Way Around The World is a memoir about the international teaching life — the freedom, the adventure, the professional growth, and the costs that no one tells you about. It features the stories of twelve international teachers from Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Spain and Germany, who between them have taught on every habitable continent across careers spanning decades.
For any teacher who has ever wondered what else is out there — and whether they have what it takes to find it.
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