Teaching Traveling: Curious about making a career through online teaching? Learn more from Maria Ortega Garcia!
Maria, tell us about your background.
Maria: I am a 32 year old teacher of no fixed abode. Since I finished my degree in Arts and specialized in Applied Languages, I started teaching and traveling, and accomplished a Masters and a PhD in the meantime, all on the move. I have taught Spanish in a high school [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: What are creative ways teachers can travel the world while still working?
Listen and learn as Canadian teacher Sarah Boggett explains how teaching exchanges can expand your horizons.
Tell us about your background, Sarah.
Sarah: I am a 34 year old travelling teacher. I grew up in a travelling family in Ontario, Canada. Every couple of years we would head back to England and Scotland to visit all of our relatives. When I [...Read More!]
Monks and Randy’s daughters on a Thailand bus!
TeachingTraveling.com: Let’s dive into the exciting life of Randy, a U.S.-born teacher living in Australia who has traveled around the world.
Welcome, Randy! Tell us a bit about your background.
Randy: I was born in Colorado in the USA. As a kid, I lived in Washington DC, Chicago, and then moved to Argentina at 3 (Spanish is my FIRST second language!), New [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: A looming question for folks aiming to teach ESL abroad is whether its worth it to complete a TEFL course and become officially certified.
To help shed light on this query, let’s welcome Brian, a friendly English chap who I first met on a ruckus island in Southern Thailand.
Brian has just completed his TEFL certification and has some words of wisdom for us. Brian, first off, why did [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Thanks for chatting with us, Kelly! Tell us about yourself. Kelly: I’ve been an educator for 18 years, though I didn’t take a traditional path into the profession, having interrupted my undergraduate degree to start a family.
As soon as my children were old enough to go to school, I went back to school part-time and finished up my BA.
I started teaching at the laboratory school on campus during the semester [...Read More!]
Are you ready for a giantly awesome tale? Let’s hand it over to Treen to read the story of the first 34 years of her teaching traveling life!
My name is Katrina and I come from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. I escaped from the suburbs as quickly as I could. One year into my Bachelor of Arts degree, I bought my dream car, a Combi Volkswagon pop top camper, [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Caz! Please tell us a bit about your background.
Caz: I am from a small coastal town about an hour north of Sydney, Australia. I graduated from University as a primary school teacher in ’97, and three days after, I set off overseas on a travel adventure that really hasn’t ended.
My first experience traveling was backpacking through Indonesia for 3 months with 2 girlfriends. From there I moved [...Read More!]