Teaching Traveling: Readers, have you been curious about short-term volunteer opportunities abroad? In Africa? During teacher summers?
American teacher Sue’s experience will inspire and assist you.
Sue, tell us about background.
Sue: My name is Sue Ron-Gonzalez. I am a special education teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District, and have worked with students with learning disabilities and emotional difficulties for the past 25 years.
My desire to travel to Africa [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Kim! Tell us about yourself.
Kim: My name is Kim Zimmer and I’m a 31 year old technology teacher at an elementary school in Glenview, IL.
My formative years of middle and high school were spent in the Chicagoland area, but I decided to go against the grain and travel cross country to attend the University of Oregon for college. My years as a Duck were spent [...Read More!]
Note from Lillie Marshall of TeachingTraveling.com: Last year at this time, I was in my third of three glorious months volunteer teaching in Ghana.
Now, back home in Boston, it is a joy to maintain contact with Ghana friends… and today we have a special treat: an article from Sogakpe, Ghana high school student Nyamata John Bright about a day in school that brought him half joy, half pain! This [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: It’s lovely to meet you, Phil! Please tell us about your background.
Phil: I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio. I went to New York University and afterwards taught for three years in a public charter school in Washington, DC.
I have traveled as often as my schedule and budget have allowed, and in many cases when I probably shouldn’t have.
I studied abroad in Ghana in 2005, traveling for a bit [...Read More!]