Great opportunity alert!
Do you know any kids age 14-18 who are interested in travel blogging?
Tell them to click THIS LINK to get information on how to apply for the free and fabulous youth travel blogging mentorship just launched by the Wandering Educators Travel Site!
This program provides amazing training to youth who dream of travel blogging. It leads students through a structured, engaging curriculum led by some of the top travel writers [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Stacey Zolt Hara, Owner and Author of the Travel with Bella book series, and overall FASCINATING person!
Stacey, tell us about yourself.
Stacey: I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and started my career as a journalist covering U.S. Congress in Washington, DC. Since college, my career took lots of twists and turns that included internships at a high-fashion magazine in Manhattan, covering Congress amid the tail [...Read More!]
Yesterday, the article about Eliane came out, telling her amazing story of teaching English around the world through Airline ESL, Business English, and TESOL Teacher Training.
Today, Eliane has agreed to share with us all the super-useful processes and resources that she recommends to launch or further a career in Teaching-Traveling.
This advice is useful for finding teaching gigs around the world, as well as in the specific countries of Brazil and [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Eliane, who has TONS of helpful information on teaching-traveling: from ESL for airlines, to Business English, to TESOL training, all around the world.
Eliane, tell us about your background.
Eliane: I was born in Brazil but raised in Canada. My father was a soccer player and went to work in Canada and we ended up living there. Due to his profession, we traveled quite a bit and I [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Shane, former teacher and current RV travel advocate!
Shane, tell us a bit about your background.
Shane: I am a native Rhode Islander. I attended Hope High School from 1963-1966 and I received my Bachelor’s degree in secondary education from the University of Rhode Island in 1971. In 1974, after a brief career in automotive sales, I procured a teaching position at a small parochial school in Rhode [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling: Welcome to James from Ouroyster, who has been traveling on and off since he was 16.
James, tell us a bit about your background.
James: I was born in the United Kingdom, and my background is in the Merchant Navy. I was a navigational officer. During my time in this role I went to a lot of different places, the best of those being Manaus in Brazil where we stayed for 2 months [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Today we welcome my brilliant Brown University classmate, Winston Groman, to talk of his fascinating teaching-traveling. Winston, tell us about yourself.
Winston: I’m from Miami, Florida, so it’s pretty natural that I ended up studying Spanish literature in college and in grad school. My first substantial teaching experience came in Harvard grad school, where I taught first-year Spanish for three years, from 2008 until 2011. I recently left my [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to John Peden of “Go Teach Thailand” who will give us fabulous advice on how to see the world economically by teaching!
John, tell us a bit about your background.
John: My name is John Peden. I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield and graduated in 2009. During my time at university I was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and became determined to own my own [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: I’m thrilled to introduce you today to a remarkable traveler named Delia Harrington. Delia, tell us about your background.
Delia: I am a 22 year old college student graduating this May from Northeastern University. I’m originally from the Boston area, and before I came to college I had only been to Canada and France. At Northeastern, though, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to include purposeful travel in my [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Erin!
We are eager to hear of your experiences teaching and traveling in Costa Rica with WorldTeach. First, tell us a bit about your background.
Erin: I grew up in Rhode Island and then lived in Boston while I went to Northeastern. I stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating in 2006 while I worked at several afterschool programs and the B-SAFE summer program in Dorchester.
I knew I wanted [...Read More!]