An Online Teacher’s Travel to Fight Human Rights Abuses

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Mar 172013
 
An Online Teacher's Travel to Fight Human Rights Abuses

Teaching Traveling: Welcome to the very accomplished Cameron Conaway, Social Justice Editor at The Good Men Project and award-winning author of “Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet.”

Conaway was the 2011-2012 Poet-in-Residence at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand and the 2007-2009 Poet-in-Residence at the University of Arizona’s MFA Creative Writing Program. His work has appeared or been reviewed in ESPN, The Huffington Post, and Teach Magazine, among [...Read More!]

International Educator and Writer, Teaching in India: Sandy

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Jan 182013
 
International Educator and Writer, Teaching in India: Sandy

Teaching Traveling: Would you take a job teaching abroad if your spouse got a job overseas?

Read the story of author and international educator, Sandra Bornstein’s adventures in India! Sandy, tell us about yourself.

Sandy: I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. After graduating from high school, I moved to Boulder, Colorado to attend the University of Colorado. I was lucky to meet my future husband within months of starting school. We married [...Read More!]

Teaching Travel Writing By a Best-Selling Book: Jacqueline

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Oct 232012
 
Teaching Travel Writing By a Best-Selling Book: Jacqueline

Teaching Traveling: There are many things to teach and learn in the world, and travel writing is one of them! Today, we hear from Jacqueline Harmon Butler, author of the recent 7th Edition of the best-selling Travel Writer’s Handbook.

Tell us about your background, Jacqueline.

Jacqueline: I was born in Salinas, California and grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, California. I saw the movie “An American in Paris” at an impressionable age and dreamed of [...Read More!]

Gretchen: Teaching in Iraq after Korea Leads to a Book Deal

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Jun 032012
 
Gretchen: Teaching in Iraq after Korea Leads to a Book Deal

Teaching Traveling:  We have a celebrity guest today! Gretchen Berg is the author of the new memoir, I Have Iraq in My Shoe, detailing her year teaching in Iraq.

Gretchen, tell us about your background. 

Gretchen: I grew up in a suburb of Chicago, then had my first overseas teaching experience in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. After that I traveled a bit, then worked in a variety of education and [...Read More!]

Maureen: From Intelligence Official to Book Author in Ecuador

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Apr 052012
 
Maureen: From Intelligence Official to Book Author in Ecuador

Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Maureen Klovers! Readers, get ready for a remarkable story unlike any you’ve heard before.

Maureen, tell us about your background.

Maureen: I have a checkered past! Originally from Milwaukee, I started my career as a U.S. intelligence agent focused on Latin America and moonlighted as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher and a panelist on a local radio station’s Sunday morning talk show. Following a discussion with one [...Read More!]

Stacey: Teaching Traveling Through Books for Children

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Feb 042012
 
Stacey: Teaching Traveling Through Books for Children

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!]

Danny: Thriving on a Teacher’s Salary, and Poland Teaching

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Nov 302010
 
Danny: Thriving on a Teacher's Salary, and Poland Teaching

TeachingTraveling.com: Howdy, Danny!  Tell us a bit about your background.

Danny: I was born and raised in Vero Beach, Florida.  I knew I wanted to be a teacher after having Mr. Stuzke in 9th grade Civics.  One teacher can really make a difference in a person’s life!

Fueled by this vision, I graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1999 with a degree in Elementary Education.

I taught kindergarten and first grade before moving [...Read More!]