Teaching Traveling: Want to know how to travel the world for cheap during your teacher summers? Chris Willard will share his tips!
Chris, tell us about your background.
Chris: I grew up in the Boston area, and did some traveling with my family growing up, and a little bit in college. It wasn’t until a few years after graduating from Wesleyan, about ten years ago, however, that I discovered how easy [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Robin Botto, experienced world traveler and panelist for the upcoming 10/18/11 “Meet, Plan, Go!” career-break travel event’s Boston chapter!
Robin, tell us about your background.
Robin: Tim and I are Bostonians and have been married about 2 years now. We had very little background in anything teaching related. We both worked in corporate America, but quit our jobs in Boston to take some time to travel in Asia. One [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Here’s a great account from Steve Sirski, who has been an ESL teacher, filmmaker, and scholar in South Korea, Cambodia, and Ukraine!
Steve, tell us a bit about your background.
Steve: I’m from Winnipeg, Canada and I’ve been teaching English on and off for the last three years. I’ve recently returned to Canada from Ukraine where I was doing some family roots research and teaching English in Kharkiv. I may stay [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Nikki Biddison! Tell us a bit about your background.
Nikki: I’m originally from the Central Coast of California, a beautiful place that’s hard to leave for full-time living in Cambodia, but Cambodia is now my “home.”
I studied for a teaching credential in California, but public education was not fulfilling for me. Not only that, but my family kept encouraging me to use my “skills” to teach abroad, so when [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Abbie! Please tell us about your background.
Abbie: I live in Southern California, where I have been with my boyfriend for the last 5 years. We moved here from the east coast, and I think that’s what really started my love for travel and new adventures. I have been a Preschool Special Education teacher since we moved to California, and I earned my Master’s degree in Special Education in [...Read More!]