I have a message for you from my friend who is a doctor in Mozambique.
“It’s painful,” my friend wrote to me yesterday, “that the Stop Kony campaign has gotten millions of views and floods of press, but World Tuberculosis Day (which is this Saturday, March 24!) has gone unnoticed.”
Read this excerpt from a Message About TB by the United Nations Secretary General to understand why you should care:
“For too long, tuberculosis [...Read More!]
Readers: here is a great opportunity for you to contribute to an MTV International documentary about bullying, especially if you are currently abroad and working with youth!
Take it away, Emma.
My name is Emma and I am the researcher of a 60-minute documentary for MTV International about bullying called Bullied.
The film will explore the universal experiences of young people across the globe who have fallen victim to bullying. The plan [...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!]
One way we as teachers can bring travel into our classroom at home is by sharing wonderful true-life stories of students from around the world. Check out these:
Ideas on how to use international student stories… Engaging, enlightening true-life stories from students in Ghana, West Africa… Fascinating true-life stories from ESL students from: Asia, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and more… Lesson Plans on how to do this true-life story project in your own classroom! True stories [...Read More!]