Packing for Success: How to Establish a Teaching Abroad Experience
The teacher candidates in our Bachelor of Education program were about to embark not only on a professional journey, but also an actual journey, to teach abroad.
Teaching Abroad
South Korea: A Grassroots Gem
Hidden within Asia is a most unexpected jewel of the continent: South Korea. It’s a country not inundated with tourists and it is for this reason that it holds so many unknown ...
Hope You Like Rice
When it comes to Korean cuisine, there is one thing you can be sure of, you will be eating a lot of white rice and it will most likely be sticky. One thing I didn’t expect was ...
Arriving and Settling into Daegu, South Korea
Upon arriving in a foreign country, there are obvious hurdles that need to be overcome: 1) the language barrier; 2) finding your way around with the language barrier; 3) ...
South Korea, Anyone?
If someone had told me a year ago that I would be residing and teaching in a small residential town in South Korea, I would have told them they were mistaken. Having ...
Teaching Music in the Far East
Seeking a new experience teaching music, I decided to cross an ocean and arrived in Hong Kong in August 2004. In the process, I discovered that teaching the arts is really ...
Beyond Borders: An Insider’s View on International Teaching
International schools have superior teaching resources and facilities, equal access to information, are up on the latest technology, are generally non-profit, have a written ...