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!]
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!]
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!]
Hello, all! Today we have a brilliantly insightful piece from Craig, a New York ESL teacher.
Take it away, Craig…
While I myself don’t have too much experience traveling, I feel like I have traveled extensively through the stories of my ESL students. I love to travel, but am more devoted to my students and get to experience the world through them.
My students vary in age from teenagers through [...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!]