Teaching Traveling: Welcome to world traveler, teacher, and author, Donna Morang, who is here to prove that you can (and should!) travel at any age!
Take it away, Donna.
Donna: My background is a little bizarre due to my age: sixty-eight. I have had several professions and business adventures. Born and raised on a ranch in Montana, I was sort of a Tom-boy so many of my occupations were a little [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Whitney!
Tell us about your background.
Whitney: When I was younger, I traveled so much, but only in my imagination. My favorite books growing up were set in other countries and other time periods. For example, when I read about Sherlock Holmes, I so badly wished to be in London, in the Victorian era (I love how much a geek I am!).
I longed to be part of an [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Alexa, a traveling teacher who connected with me because we both had the same wonderful TEFL teacher, Natalie!
Alexa, tell us a bit about your background.
Alexa: I’m Alexa Hart, a 25-year-old southern California native who spent the past two years teaching in Seoul, South Korea. Before moving to South Korea, I got TEFL certified in Cusco, Peru with a fantastic volunteer organization and English-language institute called Maximo [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to unbelievably inspiring long-term world traveler and international teacher, Barry O’Leary, also known as Baz!
Baz, tell us a bit about your background.
Baz: I was born in Kingston, London, but I grew up in North-West London in a really exciting place called Eastcote. After getting an Economics degree at Southampton University I worked in sales in London for three years. During that time I grew to despise [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to John Peden of “Go Teach Thailand” who will give us fabulous advice on how to see the world economically by teaching!
John, tell us a bit about your background.
John: My name is John Peden. I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield and graduated in 2009. During my time at university I was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and became determined to own my own [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Michelle Aitken of “Go Teach Thailand!” Michelle, tell us a bit about your background.
Michelle: At the time of writing I’m 25 and I graduated from Liverpool John Moore’s University back in 2008. I’ve wanted to be a teacher for most of my life, but after getting a bit of experience under my belt and discussing my career path with a teacher and mentor, I realised that I [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Gareth, a remarkable teacher-traveler from Boston who has taught for extended periods in Latin America and now with the Peace Corps in China!
Gareth, tell us about your background.
Gareth: My name is Gareth Lindwall and I became a teacher during a year abroad volunteer gig in Honduras. When I returned, I worked as a Kindergarten teacher in a two-way English-Spanish immersion school in Boston for several years, and [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: We have a super unique teacher traveler today: American teacher Mike Welch, who travels the world gathering photos of people doing PowerKicKs, and who now is teaching as a professor in Bangkok, Thailand!
Mike, tell us a bit about your background.
Mike: My name is Mike Welch. I am originally from the Bay Area in California, about 25 miles outside San Francisco. I recently celebrated my 30th birthday here in [...Read More!]
We hear so much about people who teach English in Asia, but what about Eastern Europe? Let’s listen to the story of Jenna Makowski, an American who completely changed her career path by getting TEFL certification and, after many frustrating applications, got a teaching job in… Russia!
Take it away, Jenna.
It was sometime around February of 2009 that I started to feel lost. [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: A looming question for folks aiming to teach ESL abroad is whether its worth it to complete a TEFL course and become officially certified.
To help shed light on this query, let’s welcome Brian, a friendly English chap who I first met on a ruckus island in Southern Thailand.
Brian has just completed his TEFL certification and has some words of wisdom for us. Brian, first off, why did [...Read More!]