u/PineappleAnxious6544

Hi!

I made a post recently about my situation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Internationalteachers/s/t8FF152JjZ

To summarise:

My goal is to become a history or humanities teacher in an internaitonal school within the next couple of years (preferably in an IB school as that is where my current experience is). My only teaching experience is 7 year's experience as an EAL teacher in my current school (IB/MYP internaitonal school) but I have no history or humanities experience.

HOWEVER I do have a PGC_E and QTS in History from the UK that I obtained back in 2018 (and my degree is HIstory with English Studies). I just decided at the time that I wasn't ready and went down the EAL path instead.

I know the priority now is to get as much classroom experience in humanities as possible (and luckily my current school has agreed to give me some humanities classes next year along with EAL), but I would also like to do a master's.

Problem is I'm finding it REALLY hard to decide between doing an education MA and a history-related MA, specifically I'm looking at these online courses:

MA Education (Exeter University)

or

MA Global History (University of London SOAS)

Given my goal of becoming a humanities teacher, which MA would look more attractive to international schools? I'm leaning towards the Global History because it aligns really well with IB's Integrated Humanities approach judging by the modules on offer, and I would genuinly enjoy it more, but striclty from an employability standpoint, I have no idea which would be better.

My goal: to move out of Europe where I'm living cheque-to-cheque and saving nothing, and get a job with a decent package in the locations mentioned in title (such as housing provided or housing allowance, decent savings, etc.). I very flexible about the country, nothing specific in mind. Either as a senior school EAL or History/Humanities teacher.

ABOUT ME (details altered slightly)

Male, single, 34 years old, British, UK passport

QUALIFICATIONS

- Undegraduate degree in History with English Studies (70% of credits from history 30% from English) from UK university
- P_G_C_E with QTS in History from UK university
- TEFL qualification (CELTA)
- MA in International Education: Language and Literacy Pathway (Exeter University in UK, online, just started and will finish in May 2028)

EXPERIENCE

My work experience started after I did my CELTA:

- first I did 3 years as a TEFL teacher in language schools in Spain (teaching all ages)
- then I moved into international schools with my current school in Spain, where I've been working for 6 years as a senior school EAL teacher. It's an IB and MYP school. The last two years I've also been Head of Year for grade 9, and next year I will be Head of Year again and teach a mixture of EAL and MYP Humanities (finally getting some History teaching experience!)

Possible red flags for schools considering me:

- AlthoughI my P_G_C_E awarded QTS on completion, I didn't complete my NQT induction year in the UK or have any teaching experience in the UK outside of my training year, since I finished my P_G_C_E and went straight into CELTA and TEFL teaching in Spain
- my undergraduate degree is not strictly in English (History with English Studies)
- very little History/Humanities teaching experience (maybe I should just apply to EAL roles?)
- My P_G_C_E isn't in English (does that matter at this point given I already have experience?)

My main worry is that I won't be approved for a VISA due to my undergraduate degree only being 30% English. Will may master's degree make up for this?