Teaching Traveling: As I just returned from travel in India with a teacher group, it’s only fitting that today’s interview be about incredible India!
Bhaskar Krishnamurthy is a well-known photojournalist who runs CLIC Abroad, a program where students travel to India for intercultural photo workshops. Bhaskar, tell us about your background.
Bhaskar: I am a native of India now living in Kansas City as an engineer and photojournalist. I engage with children in [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Interested in free group travel with students or with other teachers? Learn today from highly experienced teacher-traveler, Gail Ingram! Gail, tell us a bit about your background.
Gail: I have been a high school history teacher for the past 32 years in Cheraw, South Carolina. I’m 55 years old and I have been traveling since I was born in Tokyo, Japan. I have led more than 20 group tours since 1989 and I have [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: There are some excellent programs to help teachers travel free with student groups. Florida teacher Scott Goldsher will tell us about one he used to travel with students to Costa Rica.
Scott, as background, how did you get into teaching in the first place?
S: I was born and raised in Baltimore where I attended undergraduate school at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County studying Pre-Med. From there I moved [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: What are creative ways teachers can travel the world while still working?
Listen and learn as Canadian teacher Sarah Boggett explains how teaching exchanges can expand your horizons.
Tell us about your background, Sarah.
Sarah: I am a 34 year old travelling teacher. I grew up in a travelling family in Ontario, Canada. Every couple of years we would head back to England and Scotland to visit all of our relatives. When I [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Have you been seeking a way to connect your children or students to the world without leaving home?
Read about how Chelsea Rae Schmidt’s Big Earth Explorers can do just that!
Chelsea, first tell us about your background and how you got interested in Global Education.
Chelsea: I’m just your average young, unemployed, college graduate… except that I gave up the job search in order to live my dream and travel.
When [...Read More!]
Great opportunity alert!
Do you know any kids age 14-18 who are interested in travel blogging?
Tell them to click THIS LINK to get information on how to apply for the free and fabulous youth travel blogging mentorship just launched by the Wandering Educators Travel Site!
This program provides amazing training to youth who dream of travel blogging. It leads students through a structured, engaging curriculum led by some of the top travel writers [...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: 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!]
Teaching Traveling Inspiration Night took place in Boston on Thursday, March 31, 2011…
…and it was a raging success!
Over 100 aspiring teacher-travelers showed up (despite the shocking Springtime snow!) to learn from the 10 panelists, numerous handouts, and 12 partner organizations exactly HOW a teacher can make his or her travel dreams a reality!
TeachingTraveling.com and AroundTheWorldL.com will publish a series of articles in the next week summarizing the delectably helpful information conveyed [...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!]