Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Shane, former teacher and current RV travel advocate!
Shane, tell us a bit about your background.
Shane: I am a native Rhode Islander. I attended Hope High School from 1963-1966 and I received my Bachelor’s degree in secondary education from the University of Rhode Island in 1971. In 1974, after a brief career in automotive sales, I procured a teaching position at a small parochial school in Rhode [...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: Please welcome Boston Public Schools teacher, Laura Castelli, who will tell us about wonderful student group travel opportunities in France and New Orleans!
Laura, please tell us a bit about your background.
Laura: Originally, I am from a small town in New York. I have been living in Boston for eight years now and teaching in Boston for the past three. I am currently teaching French at the Boston Community [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Anna Drapkin! Tell us a bit about your background.
Anna: I’m a 24 year old Bostonian at the end of an eight month experience living and teaching English in southern Spain.
Originally from a small town in Maine, I first became hooked on travel during a high school trip to France and Italy. Swimming against the strong tides in Nice, taking a boat cruise along the Seine, viewing the lights [...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!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Chef Instructor James Berman! Tell us about yourself.
James: I am a Pittsburgh, PA émigré who settled in Old New Castle, Delaware for the past sixteen years. I received my formal culinary training through the American Culinary Federation’s Chefs’ apprenticeship program at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I’m Chef Instructor at Delcastle Technical High School since 2003, and I am the founder and faculty advisor of the Cooks [...Read More!]
We hear so much about people who teach English in Asia, but what about Eastern Europe? Let’s listen to the story of Jenna Makowski, an American who completely changed her career path by getting TEFL certification and, after many frustrating applications, got a teaching job in… Russia!
Take it away, Jenna.
It was sometime around February of 2009 that I started to feel lost. [...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!]
Ready to be inspired? Read on for the story of Ashleigh Kate Kinder, who has concrete tips on how to create and fund your adventures abroad.
Take it away, Ashleigh! When you’re teaching abroad, the possibilities for adventure are endless.
In two short years while living in Chile, I’ve been lucky enough to hold monkeys in the Amazon, ride a boat under one of the [...Read More!]
Today we’re thrilled to have the first-hand story of my former Boston Public Schools coworker, Pei Pei, who is currently in month two of a fascinating teaching gig in Sofia, Bulgaria!
Take it away, Pei Pei.
I am 28 years old, from Boston, MA, and I went abroad this year to teach after five years of working in the Boston Public School system as a high school English teacher. I have [...Read More!]