Jolanta Duggan-English Teacher (MHS AL AIN)

Having taught English for over thirteen years in European schools, I was initially surprised at the rigidity of the SABIS® System teaching methodology here in the Middle East. This method was something completely new and took a little time to get used to. The weekly workload was also quite high, which required thorough lesson preparation [...]

Linda Fayyad, 23yrs old, American recruit

 
How I became part of “THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF CHOUEIFAT, UAE, QATAR, OMAN & BAHRAIN” team.

I graduated from Western Connecticut State University in 2007 with a degree in History and Psychology. I have always known that I wanted to be a teacher, but for which level of education I still was not sure. So [...]

Moh’d Khatib- The International SChool of Choueifat Dubai

I have joined Sabis Schools in September 2001 as a teacher in  for one year then moved to The International School of Choueifat Dubai where I occupied the position of both a Mathematics teacher and Academic Quality Controller.
Like anyone joining a new job, I had so many questions coming to my mind; whom am I [...]

Rohina Rauf KG-2 Teacher ISC-Erbil, Kurdistan

I was contacted by KS for an interview, after I applied for a teaching position at the Choueifat School in Erbil, Kurdistan. It was actually RL’s wit and a great sense of humor that put me at ease, and within days I was ready to fly out. I was most pleasantly surprised, when [...]

SABIS RECRUITMENT or should I say, how they got me.

I am sure that nobody is particularly interested in how I was recruited, in fact it isn’t very interesting at all. However, I feel compelled to write about it as I have seen its method criticised elsewhere on the web.
I answered an ad in a newspaper (I know now that they use the internet a [...]

Couples who met in SABIS

When I was in SABIS school X for those memorable years of my life I recall so many couples who came to the region single, met in the school and later married. I have kept in contact with many of them and I find it fascinating to watch how their lives have evolved with their mixture of cultures, [...]

Justin’s experience

I applied to teach in the Emirates after I finished my final year in college, because I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with my life and thank goodness I did! The people I have met, the lifestyle I live and the different opportunities that are now available to me have made the [...]

Deirdre’s experience

I arrived in The UAE in August of 2006 having been recruited from University College Dublin. I had just finished my Higher Diploma in Education and was eager to acquire a full time position as a teacher although not in Ireland.
I wanted to travel and using my qualifications was also very important to me. [...]

Kim’s experience

I arrived in The UAE in August of 2005 having been recruited from Trinity. I don’t have any formal training as a teacher and so I was a little concerned about teaching advanced classes to the upper secondary students; however, the system breaks the whole syllabus down into individual lessons. It is very clear exactly [...]

Maria’s Experience

I came to  in August of 2000, to take up a position as an English teacher at the International School of Choueifat in . Almost seven years later, I can look back at my time here with a sense of pride and achievement. I am a thirty year old Irish woman, and graduated from University [...]