TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Sarah! Please tell us a bit about your background.
Sarah: I’m originally from St. Louis, Missouri, but I moved to Boston to attend Boston College and spent the next 2 years working in that city.
My love for travel started with a myriad of family road trips in our wood-paneled minivan across the middle of America, and was nurtured by the exchange students my family hosted from places such [...Read More!]
Why all this fuss about getting more teachers to travel and more travelers to teach, anyway? Is it really worth it?
In a word: YESSSSSS!!!
A huge thanks to the famous EF Tours blog, Following the Equator, for publishing my guest article for them:
10 Ways Travel Can Make You a Better, Happier Teacher.
Do please check out the article by clicking the link, above, and see if you agree that this teaching-traveling movement [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Angela was a student in the first class I ever taught as an official Boston Public Schools teacher, seven years ago. She was a senior in high school and I was 21 years old… not much older than her!
Since that year when she impressed me so much as a 12th grader, Angela has gone on to do remarkable things, despite financial hardship, being mugged, a car crash, and [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, world-traveling teacher Shasta! Please tell us about yourself.
Shasta: I’m originally from a tiny town in northeast Texas and went to college in Louisiana and Arkansas. I graduated with a Psychology degree from the University of Central Arkansas in 2006, and then began the test of intestinal fortitude that is a Peace Corps application. I got nominated to teach in Eastern Europe/Central Asia, but needed some actual teaching experience [...Read More!]
Do you sometimes feel the difficulties in your life will NEVER let you fulfill your travel dreams? What you are about to read will snap you out of those thoughts.
This is the true story from my former Boston Public Schools student, ShiSha, about how she went from tragically failing high school classes, to harnessing her power through working at an urban youth art program, to her current studies [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Chef Instructor James Berman! Tell us about yourself.
James: I am a Pittsburgh, PA émigré who settled in Old New Castle, Delaware for the past sixteen years. I received my formal culinary training through the American Culinary Federation’s Chefs’ apprenticeship program at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I’m Chef Instructor at Delcastle Technical High School since 2003, and I am the founder and faculty advisor of the Cooks [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Hip hip hooray for our esteemed guest today, Dr. Jessie Voigts of the wildly successful teaching-traveling community, Wandering Educators.com. Welcome, Jessie!
Jessie: I’m excited to share our resource for global educators, Wandering Educators, with the readers of Teaching Traveling. I’d also love to share what I’ve learned on my journeys about teaching, living in different cultures, and the power of culture in shaping worldviews.
TT: Excellent! Please begin by telling us [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Get ready for a teaching traveling tale that will knock your socks off. Holly Adams is a remarkable woman who taught in Afghanistan through clowning, with Patch Adams!
Holly, tell us about your background.
Holly: When people ask what I do, I sometimes respond that I belong to the ACTUAL oldest profession: a traveling player. Long before there were ladies of the evening, story-tellers all over the world made [...Read More!]
We hear so much about people who teach English in Asia, but what about Eastern Europe? Let’s listen to the story of Jenna Makowski, an American who completely changed her career path by getting TEFL certification and, after many frustrating applications, got a teaching job in… Russia!
Take it away, Jenna.
It was sometime around February of 2009 that I started to feel lost. [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Let us welcome Kelly Dunning, a Canadian teacher who has traveled around the world and is now living in England with the love she met abroad! Kelly, please tell us about your background.
Kelly: I was born in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, where I grew up in the countryside with cows and chickens for neighbours and a huge expanse of surrounding wilderness to explore. When I was 17 my [...Read More!]