Teacher Recruiting Update

Sometimes people ask me (Liam), what exactly does a school director do? This is a question that is usually hard to answer because my job carries so many different responsibilities, but it’s safe to say that one of my most important responsibilities is recruiting teachers to fill our vacancies each year. Like most international schools, every year we have a number of openings to fill. For a school in its early years, it is often difficult to make contact with potential teachers that are both qualified and interested in moving to a country like Nicaragua to teach. I can remember two times in the past 12 years when we have started the school year at NCA without having all of our teaching staff in place, and a few more times when we have still been looking for one or more teachers with less than 4 weeks before the first day of school. Obviously these are very stressful conditions.

Fortunately, things seem to be improving in the area of teacher recruiting. We had six openings this year and all of them were filled by qualified teachers by the beginning of March. Among the six teacher we have hired is our fourth “return” teacher (taught at NCA in the past, moved back to the States, and now is returning to NCA) and our second “NCA alum” teacher (graduated from NCA, went to college and got a degree in teaching, and came back to NCA).

As always, we’re so thankful for your prayers for Nicaragua Christian Academy and grateful that God has once again provides for our needs as a school.

Check out our new Teacher Recruiting video at http://youtu.be/yU8TnKCXGHo!