Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Tyler Haines! Tyler, tell us about your background.
Tyler: I’m 20 years old and from Johannesburg, South Africa. I worked a number of jobs in the service industry including waiting and bartending following my completion of high school in 2010. I worked hard up till mid 2012, saving money with the dream of traveling abroad. I had never left my home country before and looked for ways [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Jonny Blair is a traveling Northern Irishman currently teaching English in Hong Kong. His travels have taken him to Peru, Botswana, Antarctica and Taiwan. He runs a popular and regularly updated travel site called Don’t Stop Living and admits he has “no idea” where he will end up next.
Jonny, tell us about your background.
Jonny: I grew up in the town of Bangor in Northern Ireland back in the 1980s and [...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: Is it financially wise to teach abroad? Read how Emily Gibson left her U.S. teaching job to teach English in Hong Kong… for double the salary!
Emily, tell us about your background.
Emily: I was born in the quiet suburbs of Southern California, but from the time I was young I yearned to see the world, like my adventurous grandfather. When I was in college, I majored in English and Spanish [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: How did a Canadian couple find jobs teaching abroad when they didn’t have teaching degrees nor TEFL certification? Read and learn from Nick and Dariece, “Goats on the Road.” Take it away, Dariece!
Dariece: We are Nick & Dariece, a 20-something couple from Canada. About 4 years ago, we decided that our current professions weren’t for us anymore. I was a paralegal at a law firm [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Would you take a job teaching abroad if your spouse got a job overseas?
Read the story of author and international educator, Sandra Bornstein’s adventures in India! Sandy, tell us about yourself.
Sandy: I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. After graduating from high school, I moved to Boulder, Colorado to attend the University of Colorado. I was lucky to meet my future husband within months of starting school. We married [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to James Pengelley, an Australian who has taught, traveled, and volunteered abroad all over the world, and now teaches in Colombia.
James, tell us about your background.
James: I spent my last semester of university on exchange in Singapore and was looking to do something that would really challenge me. I thought about volunteering but was quite put off by “volunteer” programmes that charge participants thousands of dollars [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Think just because you teach a subject like Physical Education, you won’t be able to teach abroad? Think again!
Please welcome Maggie Chestney, a former PhysEd teacher who is now teaching ESL abroad in Thailand. Maggie, tell us about yourself.
Maggie: I grew up in Pennsylvania and went to college at West Virginia University. In December 2007, I graduated with a degree in Physical Education/Teacher Education. Soon after graduation, I [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Ever wanted to volunteer teach overseas for several weeks? Read about Abigail Hunt’s experience in India for inspiration!
Abigail, tell us about your background.
Abigail: I decided to take a year out after school, before I went to University, to do some travelling and get some space after so many years of studying. I decided to volunteer overseas, to give something back to a community and learn more about [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Dream of teaching internationally? Chris Polley has become an expert in the topic.
Chris, tell us about your background.
Chris: I’m from Long Island, New York and I’ve been a School Counselor for 8 years. This is a second career for me; I worked in the financial industry in NYC, at a couple of brokerage houses. After being way too close for comfort on 9/11, I quit about 8 months later. I [...Read More!]