Teaching Traveling: Today we have a different type of teacher. Turner Barr is a man who travels around the world, taking vastly different odd jobs at a rapid pace, and teaching his readers about them through his blog, Around the World in 80 Jobs! Wait until you hear about some of these gigs…
Turner, tell us about your background.
Turner: Well my name is Turner. I am 28, a helpless travel-holic, and I [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Robyn Donaldson who completed law school in the U.S. but now teaches English and yoga in Indonesia! Robyn, tell us about your background.
Robyn: I grew up in the midwest in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. My parents and I traveled quite a bit around the U.S. and Caribbean. However, I did not start traveling overseas until after I graduated college and started law school. I had [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to the very accomplished Cameron Conaway, Social Justice Editor at The Good Men Project and award-winning author of “Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet.”
Conaway was the 2011-2012 Poet-in-Residence at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand and the 2007-2009 Poet-in-Residence at the University of Arizona’s MFA Creative Writing Program. His work has appeared or been reviewed in ESPN, The Huffington Post, and Teach Magazine, among [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Readers, if you want advice on teaching jobs abroad, you’ve come to the right interview! Greg, tell us about your background.
Greg: I was born in the Republic of Ireland and spent my childhood in both Ireland and Saudi Arabia where my father was (and still is) an English language teacher. My father has been an international teacher since he went to teach in Zambia back in the ‘70s! I went to high [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Do you seek a career that lets you travel the world, but still teach back home? Kobus Mans may have the answer in the form of Online Teaching.
Kobus, tell us how you landed upon this fascinating location-independent job.
Kobus: I am from South Africa, but moved to Seattle, Washington in 2006 with my wife, Jessica. I have been teaching Web & Mobile Design and Content Management Systems for Lake Washington [...Read More!]
Yesterday, the article about Eliane came out, telling her amazing story of teaching English around the world through Airline ESL, Business English, and TESOL Teacher Training.
Today, Eliane has agreed to share with us all the super-useful processes and resources that she recommends to launch or further a career in Teaching-Traveling.
This advice is useful for finding teaching gigs around the world, as well as in the specific countries of Brazil and [...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!]
Boston area aspiring Teacher Travelers (and those who love them)… are you as excited as I am for Teaching Traveling Inspiration Night tomorrow evening, Thursday March 31?!
If you and your friends haven’t already gotten your tickets, zoom down to this link and get them now!
After months of planning, here are some of the teaser details about the event.
Thursday night, our Panel of Teacher-Traveler Experts will share their budget travel secrets [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Hip hip hooray for our esteemed guest today, Dr. Jessie Voigts of the wildly successful teaching-traveling community, Wandering Educators.com. Welcome, Jessie!
Jessie: I’m excited to share our resource for global educators, Wandering Educators, with the readers of Teaching Traveling. I’d also love to share what I’ve learned on my journeys about teaching, living in different cultures, and the power of culture in shaping worldviews.
TT: Excellent! Please begin by telling us [...Read More!]