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: Welcome to the very accomplished Cameron Conaway, Social Justice Editor at The Good Men Project and award-winning author of “Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet.”
Conaway was the 2011-2012 Poet-in-Residence at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand and the 2007-2009 Poet-in-Residence at the University of Arizona’s MFA Creative Writing Program. His work has appeared or been reviewed in ESPN, The Huffington Post, and Teach Magazine, among [...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: Today we get a peek at the passion and determination it takes to make travel dreams a reality by hearing from Nina, who is fundraising to volunteer in Thailand.
Nina, tell us about yourself.
Nina: I was born to a very independent woman who couldn’t seem to stay in one spot. “Suitcase Sandy” is the nickname she came to acquire from friends and family. By the time I was 18 [...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!]
Welcome to Britany Robinson, who has a wonderful story of shifting her volunteer efforts from elephants to children in Thailand. Take it away, Britany!
I am an aspiring travel writer who has just completed my first big trip. For the past two months, I explored Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. For one month of this journey, I had the opportunity to live in a small village in northern Thailand where I [...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!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to my friend Alex Uzgin, the traveling, teacher-resource mastermind behind the new homework management website, HomeworkHamlet.com!
Alex, tell us about yourself.
Alex: I live in Boston, Mass, but I was born in Kazan, Russia. I am currently 32 years old and I have travelled 90 thousand miles to 8 countries and 32 cities (based on my TripIt account). I love to travel! I am a business executive with 8 [...Read More!]