Found Poetry: Venezuelan Protests
This month is national poetry month. Today my class was working on found poems. Only half of my class was able to make it because there are protests going on […]
Category Archives: Education
Day One at the AASSA Teaching Conference
Flying to an international location, staying in a nice hotel, meeting with people from all around the continent, and being in a room with so many others who share […]
Good International Schools to Work at For Families
As long-time readers know, I am a single lady without children (and I’m looking for an international teaching husband if you happen to know of one available– :)) so I can’t […]
Planning for a Teaching Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil
The AASSA Educator’s Conference has been on my mind since November when I applied to be one of the two people to represent my school. I had to […]
Slice of Life Challenge 2017
Yesterday I committed to writing every day for the rest of March alongside my third graders so that they could participate in the classroom slice of life challenge. If you […]
Costs of Becoming an International School Teacher
I realize that I didn’t post last week. Oops! I have been focusing on getting set up to recruit for a new job for next year. In case you […]
25 Things to Look for in a Contract
Someone recently asked me a very good question: when you are recruiting, what are some things that every school should include in their contracts for foreign hire teachers? Firstly, I […]
End of the Year Teacher Tired
Ha! I keep seeing all of these memes in the teacher facebook groups I belong to about teachers being tired at the end of the year and I definitely agree! […]
Where to Look for International School Jobs
One of the first posts I ever wrote was about how to get an international job. Since then I have had many people ask me where I look for […]
How to Make Greener Choices at Home
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share ten things that you can do at home to help the environment. Helping the environment while I am living abroad can […]
