Welcome to Mauritius- I’ll be teaching here for 10 months, and look forward sharing what I learn! I intend to interview English Language Fellows working on 6 different continents. My intention is to teach my students how to podcast as well, so that they can share their experiences with the world.
This interview with teacher trainers from Reunion. They are doing a two- year project on integration of students with different learning needs in Mauritus.
Share some my reflections on what it's like do you have a lot of energy and how to channel it in a world that is set up for people who may think, act and speak in a different way then when I'm used to doing intuitively else to do.
Learn all about the orzu healing center, where they use different methods for healing people naturally.
Updates on three months of teaching is Uzbekistan. Some aspirations in regards to language learning and some strategies I've been trying to use temperature of my fluency. And also some updates on the teacher training program.
Sentence starters and reflection questions are great ways to get teachers and students to reflect on their learning experiences. Each teacher was given a list of questions and encouraged use the sentence starters, in order to express their final reflections after the one month TESOL course. They reflected on these questions: What's your name, school & region? Why do you love teaching? What have you learned and liked during this course? What was your ONE favorite activity that you plan to routinely use in your class? How many times a week do you want to use it? What is one thing you want to do differently when you return to teaching in your school community? They used these scaffolding sentence starters: My name is...I'm from .... and I work at .... school. I love teaching because... My favorite activity during the TESOL course was... I plan to use it ... in my class. One thing I want to do differently when I return to my school is... I want my students to... English.
A song reviewing key concepts a second language acquisition.
Giving students the opportunity to reflect is important. However, you must also give them a time limit for how they can do it, when they can do it, at what point in the lesson and phrases they can use to share their learning. This can support all people and give them a focus in how they express their ideas. In this episode, you can hear all the reflections from the TESOL course Teachers from across Uzbekistan and what teachers experienced, learned, liked and questions they still have about the materials taught.
Learn all about how I've been reflecting on my own creative teaching process and how to encourage others to enter into the flow of creativity.
Learn about my fourth week teaching and exploring life in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Signup for my Youtube channel for more updates: https://youtu.be/qdUCkiNT7EY
My reflections on my month of teaching in Termez, Uzbekistan.
Adjusting to a new country, culture, languages, atmosphere and temperature. Learning how to do that at a pace that is appropriate. Preparing for my lessons as well as learning as much as back as I can from the hotel staff.
During the month of July and August I will do some teaching in Uzbekistan. I share my five intentions for the teaching journey.
Nicole is an inspiring teacher works in teaching pronunciation as well as numerous other skills to her students. She predominantly works with adult education and teacher training. She’s worked in diverse places from China to --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Gena is an inspiring English language teacher who has worked as a fellow and a specialist inworking numerous countries such as Djibuti, China and Morroco. She’s a Podcaster and a teacher- trainer and she’ll be sharing her insights and what brought her to the profession of teaching. https://www.ttelt.org/ tteltinfo@gmail.com. Please go to https://www.patreon.com/ttelt to get more Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers and sponsor a teacher! Join our Facebook group: TTELT Twitter: ttelt1 Instagram: t.telt --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Learn about teachers and students from around the world. In this interview we learn about perspectives from different teachers and students. They share about what they like about a course that we’re doing on digital literacy and social emotional learning. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This is an overview of my past year and a half of teaching in Mauritius and also my online teaching from New York to hundreds if not thousands of teachers around the world. And how I was able to use various habits of mind and routines to learn how to see challenges as opportunities.
Nicole and myself are in a very similar situation. We both came home to live with our families, after our job finished and we are learning to adjust once again to living back in our family’s home. It takes a great A great deal of patience and creativity to readjust to an environment that we had grown up in as children. parents often see us as children, and if we’re not careful we can fall back into the same dynamics that we’ve had since childhood. Nicole shares her experience is teaching in China as well as most recently in India. But more specifically we go into the topics of family dynamics and building relationships with our families and with our students, and how that is a learning process and strategies we can use to strengthen our relationships with the people in our lives.
In this episode I overview some of the teaching activities I’ve been doing for the past 3 1/2 months as well I talk about some my self-care routines.
In this interview with Janet who is passionate about teaching as well as drama and theater she describes her experiences in China and in Sudan as an English language Fellow and specialist. She’s a creative innovative and culturally responsive teacher who feeds on the excitement of her students.
Rachel is presently a PhD candidate in Umass in Boston. From 2016 to 2017, she was an English language fellow in Guinea. She’s passionate about sociolinguistics and how to empower all students in her classroom. We discuss the metaphor of teaching as an art. We learn about her experiences adjusting to the differences of life from where she grew up in DC to Guinea and how she was treated. We also discuss rhe impacts of colonialism based on the French or the English influence and how that impacts language learning in different countries.
Alegra Torriano is a English educator and teacher trainer, who was has worked in the USA as well as in Peace Corps in Senegal. She was a fellow and a specialist in Colombia, and has been very active in TESOL Community. Her experience says in life and in teaching, She’s experienced situations where a plan may not have occurred exactly, but she was resilient in leading by listening. She lives an inspiring life, come learn about!
Yuta is an innovative teacher originally from New York. In 2017 & 2018 He was an English language fellow in Indonesia. He was so inspired by his fellowship, and specifically to access English camps that he helped facilitate, that he decided to return to Indonesia and do freelance teaching in universities throughout the island. Come learn about his perspectives on teaching in Indonesia as well as insights about the educational system there.
Katie is a creative teacher who really appreciates the journey of teaching. She’s worked in Japan as well as in United States and most recently in Malaysia. She’s passionate about yoga and creative writing and shares her journey abroad.
With a plethora of teaching, Cap Verde to Colombia to Angola, Kim share her insights and areas growth and learning along her teaching journey.
Amy is a teacher who is been working and universities as well as with high school students with refugees and what’s the Peace Corps volunteer in Georgia and most recently was an English language Fellow in myanmar. She describes what inspires and motivates her as an educator and intercultural facilitator for her students. She also gives us a unique perspective into the social emotional life of every day people in Myanmar. Through her antidotes in regards to how people eat, interact and even how she succeeded in getting her drivers license, you get a unique glimpse into life in Myanmar. Specifically how much we as teachers continuously learn as much as we teach in our positions.
Erin grew up as a third culture kid, living in various countries in the world. This is certainly what brought her to the calling of teaching English to speakers of other languages. She worked in Project manangement before becoming an educator. Having experiences working with refugees in Oregon, she decided study applied linguistics, to better serve her adult students. She’s a passionate teacher who lives a life of service whenever and however possible. She shares her insights into her teaching journey. as well as what pushes her to continue to learn and inspire those who she works with.
Judy Emerson is an English language fellow, specialist and very active alumni of the English language Fellow program. She originally started her career working in the field of museum curation. Midcareer, she decided to work towards becoming an educator of English. She worked in a private school with middle school students and as well with adult education. Most recently, Working with trainings for teachers in Mexico and with students in an online tutoring program. She describes her teaching in Mongolia as one of the most formative and powerfu of intercultural exchanges that she and her husband had abroad. As a native of Idaho, she describes how life in the city is really different than life in rural America. Listen to her journey into Mongolia and beyond.
In this podcast I share some of the routine that I do to keep my day flowing. It’s not easy to stay motivated when the regular structures of school and work but I’m so familiar with has changed forms. In this story explain when I am doing to stay present even in a challenging situation. Please feel free to share your experiences and staying motivated during this quarantine Covid- 19 times. Please share your response in voice message to the podcast and we’ll add it to the episode!
Richard gives his experiences, which are vast in the domain of drama and teaching English as a foreign language. He’s been working in California in the middle school for over 30 years. As an English language Fellow and active alumni, he has gone to Cambodia twice on teaching trips and done various teacher trainings. He shares his creative approach to teaching in this podcast.
In this interview, Sarah gives an overview of her diverse teaching experience is ranging from China, Japan and Uganda as well as positions she’s held in the past. She’s presently a foreign service officer and gives an experiential overview of her time as a fellow teaching and collaborating with teachers in Uganda.
Kyle is a teacher who has been working for the past 20 years in various schools around the world. He’s worked with Tibetan refugees in India, and in universities in Oman and most recently, he found himself teaching in Kenya with the English language fellowship. He’ll explain some of his previous teaching experiences and what he’s learned in the process of teaching abroad.
Lauren is a Creative teacher, who has been teaching in Latvia. Even after the English language fellowship ended, she decided to stay on with her family and continue teaching whenever and however possible, To support educators and students in the country. She is supporting a TV show by creating English learning materials for Lativian children.
Bob is a creative teacher originally from California, who shares experiences in teaching in various countries around the world. He’s passionate about infusing technology and interactive teaching strategies for all the students and teachers he works with. He shares his reflections on leaving turkey during the Covid epidemic, and the choice he had made to stay in Ethiopia when there was some social unrest as well as to stay in Japan after the tsunami in 2011. During his teaching career, he has faced challenges and had to make some chat decisions in regards to how we would continue interacting with students regardless of the situation that he was facing. He’s a passionate teacher who loves what he does.
The moment I was told that I need to leave Mauritius was a sad moment. I had to pack all my things in less than 24 hours which is something that English teachers who have worked a broad become used to doing. But the situation was different. The flights were dwindling and I had very few days if not ours left before I wouldn’t be able to possibly return back to the United States for a possible extended period of time. The program the English language fellowship has been canceled due to COVID 19 and I had to make a decision: Leave or stay? I decided to go home and this is my journey returning and reflecting on what had happened.
Jenny has been teaching in various schools in the United States, particularly focusing on community colleges. This interview she explains her life and describes it in Japan as well as describes her highlights as well as areas of growth in your experience teaching there.
In this interview with Natasha Agrawal is a teacher originally from New Jersey presently placed in a university in Egypt, she describes her experiences working with students and staff.
In this episode, I’m actually interviewed by another podcasting host, named Seph Voigts. He has a wonderful podcast called the observer effect, where he interviews people from around the world reflecting on the experiences with traveling. Here he asked me questions to learn more about what I’ve been doing in Mauritius and Madagascar in 2019.
In this interview with Lynn, she describes her experiences initially being a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland as well as working in Albania, Chad and most recently she was placed in Uzbekistan as an English language specialist. Her specialty lies in learning management systems, and she’s presently training teachers and how to integrate technology into their classrooms in Uzbekistan. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this interview with Lynn, she describes her experiences initially being a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland as well as working in Albania, Chad and most recently she was placed in Uzbekistan as an English language specialist. Her specialty lies in learning management systems, and she’s presently training teachers and how to integrate technology into their classrooms in Uzbekistan.
I overview some mental physical and emotional and visualization techniques are used to be able to run a triathlon.
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