English Speaking SEN Teacher

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

A couple of points:

Do you speak Dutch; it will be essential?

There's no problem setting up a company (Google KvK), that will take you to the website for the Kamer van Koophandel who can help you further.

Education in Holland all happens in formal situations (home education is not allowed by law), so I'm not sure how you'll get on with this, you need to speak to a Dutch person who does what you do - they must have them.  How, try LinkedIn.

Qualifications - you need to check your qualifications are recognised in the Netherlands, if they're not, you need to find out how; try going back to your issuing body for whatever Diploma you may have.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Extra lessons isn't viewed as homeschooling, so you can always try. As Cynic already said you have to be able to speak Dutch.

Thank you for your messages. I was thinking of teaching these extra lessons specifically to expat children whose first language is English. Do you think there is a demand for this? I am currently learning Dutch but it's only my second year of doing this.

I honestly don't know if there is any demand for what you do.  There are certainly kids with the problems you describe, but as I said, you will need to speak very good Dutch to work with them; one year of distance learning is probably not going to cut it.  Also, you won't be allowed to teach anywhere (private or public) unless you have the qualifications that they recognise.

Problem is that Expat kids are still subject to Dutch law, so Education law and you're now getting into an area that I think we can't help much with.  Perhaps try reaching out to the International schools, see if they have any demand for what you're going to offer.

Just chiming in to say I found this post by searching the forum for "dyslexia" ... we are considering moving to The Netherlands with a daughter with dyslexia. She is performing well in school with support from a tutor outside of school. I am curious to find out what the experience of English-speaking families with dyslexic kids has been in the International School system. (We're looking at Delft or Utrecht, most likely). We'd likely look for a tutor for reading/writing support if we did move though we currently are doing remote/zoom sessions (thanks to the pandemic) and could maintain that relationship with our US-based tutor.

Our public schools have special programs for children with dyslexia.