England, like other developing countries in the west, is a mix of peoples, cultures, races and religions. If this is true of the UK nation overall, it is certainly true of UK schools. For one who comes from another culture seeking a post of teaching in the UK, you can very well look at this multicultural set-up as a truly daunting challenge.
To help you get over your unwarranted anxiety and uncertainty, you could as well look at UK schools’ multi-ethnic composition as munching on your favourite vegetable or fruit salad. As you definitely relish the delicious blend of colours, textures and flavors in your favourite salad consider the possible delight which may surprise you when you are already instructing a multi-ethnic class in a multinational global city of London.
As they usually point out in army camps, “It’s all in the mind.” Your mind is definitely the legitimate battleground. It’s the place where you can lose or win the struggle, the sports ground where you also encounter defeat or success in the game.
In the first place, you’ve already collected enough bravery to dare an effort to work outside your comfort zone. Your applying for a teaching job in London is not a case of major monetary improvement move as you are already doing quite well in your teaching profession in your home country.
Your tactical move to a country where you have never worked and lived like the UK is a means of advancing yourself beyond your usual bounds. You have been feeling for quite some time that this is the definite period in your livelihood and life when you finally must quit the nest of your comfort in order to advance to the limitless living that you’ve always thought of.
That was already a significant milestone you achieved in conquering your earlier misgivings and becoming prepared to pack your bags to be able to soar to greater heights. So consider the challenge of teaching in the UK a mixture of cultures and personalities in a new school surrounding, not as an obstacle, but a stepping stone which will launch you to the higher levels of your well-deserved job advancement and strongly sought after limitless living.
When you have made a good play in the name of Bravery in pinning your main adversary named Fear in the sports arena of the mind you would then all the more be emboldened to fight and conquer more challenging battles in your new working and living setting beyond the mere mundane sport of job advancement.
