Why Dubai? Part 1
The tower might be tall and thin, but I'm not. Here is part of a reply I wrote to yet another question on the TES about teaching in Dubai. The ISR has lots of reviews of the schools in Dubai. Many of the ISR reviews should be taken with a large pinch of salt, but at least you can compare reviews of the same school and see if there are common themes. Also you can compare and contrast the ISR reviews with the schools' websites. There are are, of course, lots of websites for expats in the UAE and on them you might find a few interesting little nuggets of information. Atlantis, famous for its fish tank DBS and GEMS are fairly well known. I had a lady colleague who taught at GEMS Wellington and she had some positive things to say. In general, I would recommend the "shotgun method" and apply for anything and everything that looks vaguely suitable. The problem is, of course, that many schools these days have elaborate application forms and filling them