Teaching Traveling: Curious how teachers can become travel entrepreneurs? Check out this story of Crawford Hill! Crawford, tell us about your background.
Crawford: I taught high school biology for 35 years outside Philadelphia (where I grew up) while pursuing a lifelong passion for wilderness travel and exploration. My father’s idea of a family vacation in the 60s was to drive cross-country from Philly (5 kids at the time) and spend 2 weeks backpacking in [...Read More!]
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!]
Ever worried that you’d be “wasting time” by teaching abroad, especially if you don’t plan on teaching forever? Erase that thought by reading Krishna’s account of teaching English in Ecuador in order to gain the skills he will need as a doctor!
Take it away, Krishna!
My name is Krishna Surasi and I am an ESL teacher in Ambato, Ecuador.
I graduated from college in May 2010, but the story of how I [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Great to meet you, Myscha! Please tell us a bit about your background.
Myscha: I graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1990, and taught overseas for several years before launching The Lesson Machine, a heritage curriculum subscription site with a free teacher resource blog. I also write on a freelance basis for several clients, run a travel web site and co-author a weekly syndicated travel column focusing [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Fellow Boston teacher Emma, thanks so much for talking with us! Please tell us about your background.
Emma: I’m from Rhode Island, and I’ve been teaching science (Biology and Chemistry) in Boston for 4 years. After I graduated from college, I spent two years teaching English in Ecuador through WorldTeach.
TT: Awesome! Describe your time teaching in Ecuador.
E: I lived and taught English in Ecuador for two years. I lived with [...Read More!]