Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Sarah Clarke! Sarah, tell us about yourself.
Sarah: I live and teach in North Carolina, but I am originally from Canada! I studied Art and Anthropology in University and am now in my second year as an Elementary Art Teacher. I also taught high school visual art for a year. I love teaching art because it is such a dynamic subject. Every human culture in the world has [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: How can an American art teacher manage to travel all over the world? Read this exciting story of Anita Horton, creator of ArtTeachTravel.com to find out.
Anita, tell us about yourself.
Anita: I am an artist and have always been interested in other cultures for inspiration in the arts and in building global relationships.
After graduating from Missouri State University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Certification to [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: There are so many creative ways you can teach abroad, from teaching cooking, to teaching film, to teaching conflict resolution! Today we hear from the mighty Steve Juba, teacher of travel photography and the mastermind behind PhotoFly Travel Club and other thrilling ventures.
Steve, tell us about yourself.
Steve: I grew up in a small suburb in New England north of Boston, Massachusetts. As a child I was blessed to grow up on [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Let’s welcome Jason Bisping, a theatre teacher who had a wonderful experience in Guatemala with Limitless Horizons Ixil, an organization which is recruiting people like YOU, readers, to apply, yourself!
Jason, please tell us a bit about your background.
Jason: I am a theatre artist, teacher, and scholar, and I focus on international collaborations with various development organizations. I use theatre to help those organizations achieve their goals. Currently, I am [...Read More!]
Amazing news for all of you who have been wondering about the fate of ShiSha, who wrote the amazing article about going from failing high school to study abroad in Egypt. Not only is ShiSha safely back in Boston, but she has also given us the gift of this article! Read and learn.
Take it away, ShiSha!
Hello again to all of you. I decided to focus this article on the [...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!]
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: 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!]
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!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Hello there, Tamera! Tell us about yourself!
Tamera: I am originally from South Florida where I attended Palm Beach County of the Arts (now known as Dryfoos School of the Arts) from the 8th grade until I graduated high school in 1995.
After high school I moved to Gainesville, Florida where I studied for 2 years at the University of Florida before transferring on a full scholarship to New World School [...Read More!]