Teacher Reviews
Every international school can look great on paper or via a flashy website — but what’s it really like to work there?
Our Teacher Reviews section shares honest, first-hand experiences from educators working (or who have worked) at international schools around the world. These reflections go beyond salaries and teacher benefits to address the real-life details that matter.
What You’ll Find in Our Teacher Reviews
We set up a teacher survey to help get consistent feedback across each school. You’ll find information on each school review about:
- Compensation & Benefits: Whether salaries are adequate for families, what’s actually covered (housing, flights, tuition for dependents), and the realistic savings potential.
- Work-life balance & workload: Typical working week, planning/marking/extracurricular commitments, how busy or manageable the role actually is.
- Family & community support: How well the school supports partner/spouse employment, adaptation help, settlement assistance for kids and families.
- Lifestyle & local context: How safe the location is, cost of living, how easy or hard it is to adapt, what kind of expat/family life you’ll find.
- School climate & leadership: Staff morale, leadership stability, community culture, how the school treats teaching families.
- What kinds of families thrive & what to watch out for: Insight from those who are living it — who fits, who struggles, what setup works best.
Read Teacher Reviews
Here are our current school reviews, from real teachers with families:
Asia
- British International School, Phuket
- Hanoi Toronto School, Vietnam
- High Tech Academy, Kazakhstan
- Korea International School, Jeju Island, South Korea
- NLCS Jeju, South Korea
- Seoul Foreign School, Seoul, South Korea
- The International School of Penang (Uplands), Malaysia
- International School of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Wellington International School, Bangkok, Thailand
Middle East
Europe School Reviews
Latin America School Reviews
How Teacher Reviews Work With Our Independent Reviews
Our ITF school profiles provide a fact-based overview of schools — salary ranges, benefits, accreditation, curriculum, student-body, city lifestyle, etc. The Teacher Reviews add the lived experience behind those facts.
Together, we hope they can offer a rounded, practical view of what a teaching role abroad will really feel like.
Interested in Writing a Teacher Review?
If you’ve taught internationally and would like to share your experience, we’d love to hear from you. Your review helps future teachers make informed decisions and builds our global community of teaching families.