Teaching Traveling: Interested in being a teacher or administrator abroad? Bill Horniak is making the transition this year to become a Principal in Jordan!
Bill, tell us a bit about your background.
Bill: Military Brat. 13 different public schools as a child. Much traveled throughout the continental U.S. as well as Western Europe as a youngster. Originally from Charlotte, NC but spent most of my life growing up on a military base [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: We have a celebrity guest today! Gretchen Berg is the author of the new memoir, I Have Iraq in My Shoe, detailing her year teaching in Iraq.
Gretchen, tell us about your background.
Gretchen: I grew up in a suburb of Chicago, then had my first overseas teaching experience in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. After that I traveled a bit, then worked in a variety of education and [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: I’m thrilled to introduce you today to a remarkable traveler named Delia Harrington. Delia, tell us about your background.
Delia: I am a 22 year old college student graduating this May from Northeastern University. I’m originally from the Boston area, and before I came to college I had only been to Canada and France. At Northeastern, though, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to include purposeful travel in my [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Curious about what it’s like to teach at an International School in Dubai, and travel on every holiday?
Read on for the story of Kristy-Lee Adams!
Kristy, tell us a bit about your background.
Kristy: I’m an Australian teacher who really hasn’t been teaching for long at all! I always knew I wanted to travel, but never really knew how or when I was going to do it. It took my [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Readers, get psyched to learn about a whole slew of inexpensive teacher travel grants and programs, from one Teacher-Traveler who did them all!
Welcome, Libby Lupfer. Please tell us a little about yourself.
Libby: I have been a high school history teach for 20 years in the Chicago suburbs. I started teaching a little late after living in Europe, working at a ski resort, and getting a Master’s degree in [...Read More!]
Amazing news for all of you who have been wondering about the fate of ShiSha, who wrote the amazing article about going from failing high school to study abroad in Egypt. Not only is ShiSha safely back in Boston, but she has also given us the gift of this article! Read and learn.
Take it away, ShiSha!
Hello again to all of you. I decided to focus this article on the [...Read More!]
Do you sometimes feel the difficulties in your life will NEVER let you fulfill your travel dreams? What you are about to read will snap you out of those thoughts.
This is the true story from my former Boston Public Schools student, ShiSha, about how she went from tragically failing high school classes, to harnessing her power through working at an urban youth art program, to her current studies [...Read More!]