The Beginning
Your Starting Point for International Teaching
Curious about teaching overseas but not sure where to begin? Go Global helps certified teachers, school leaders, couples, and families understand international schools, hiring, salary packages, job fairs, and whether this move actually fits your life.
What Is Go Global?
Most teachers do not grow up planning to work in international schools. They hear a story, meet someone who taught overseas, hit a wall in their local system, or start wondering whether teaching could open a much bigger door.
Go Global is ITP’s beginner pathway for understanding how international teaching works. Start with the question that fits you best, then follow the links to related podcast episodes, guest conversations, and deeper resources.
Want the short version?
Not ready to read the whole section right now? Grab the short guide. It covers the basics of international teaching, overseas hiring, salaries, benefits, school fit, and family life — without pretending one PDF can explain the entire planet.
START HERE
Teach and Live Overseas
New to all of this? Start with the basics: what international teaching is, how overseas schools work, and what certified teachers should understand before applying.
ELIGIBILITY
Can I Teach Overseas?
Learn how certification, experience, subject area, references, and flexibility affect your chances of getting hired by an international school.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
What Are Int'l Schools?
Understand who these schools serve, what curricula they use, how they differ from local or language schools, and why context changes everything.
HIRING
How Overseas Hiring Works
Follow the recruiting season from research and applications to interviews, job fairs, offers, contracts, visas, and arrival.
FIT & QUALIFICATIONS
What Schools
Look For
Explore the qualifications, references, curriculum experience, adaptability, and professional traits recruiters and school leaders actually notice.
MONEY & BENEFITS
Salary, Benefits, and Savings
Compare salary, housing, flights, health insurance, child tuition, taxes, cost of living, and the full overseas teaching package.
FAMILY & FIT
Can I Teach Overseas With a Family?
Think through spouses, kids, school placement, tuition benefits, housing, safety, learning needs, community, and whether the move fits your actual life.
Listen First
Start with These ITP Episodes
Prefer the conversation version? These episodes are a good first step before you fall into seventeen browser tabs and a recruiting-fair panic spiral.
Start with one, then follow the rabbit hole responsibly.
New to ITP? These six episodes give you the cleanest starting path before diving into the full archive.
PODCAST-FIRST GUIDANCE
Start with real conversations from the International Teacher Podcast, then use the guide pages to organize what you hear.
EXPERIENCE FROM THE FIELD
The advice comes from international teachers, school leaders, recruiters, families, and educators who have lived the decisions they are discussing.
BOOKS AS DEEPER SUPPORT
Greg’s international teaching books add structure and background, but they do not replace the podcast. Nobody needs a book shrine. We’re good.
From the Field
Built from real international teaching experience
This page is not theory from someone who once read a brochure about Dubai and got inspired. Go Global is built from years of ITP conversations with international teachers, recruiters, school leaders, counselors, teaching couples, parents, and people who have actually packed the bags, signed the contracts, and figured things out the hard way.
Greg’s books support the same mission: helping teachers understand the international school world before they start applying, panicking, or accepting the first shiny offer with free housing and suspiciously vague contract language.
The podcast remains the main path. The books are there when you want a deeper dive.
READY TO GO GLOBAL?
Start here. Listen next. Apply later.
International teaching can change your career, your savings, your family life, your passport, and your definition of a normal Tuesday.
Start with the basics, listen to a few real conversations, then follow the guide pages that match your situation. You do not need to understand everything today. You just need a better first step than a random Google search at midnight.