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This podcast overviews why routines are important in our lives. Why we need to infuse them into our classes and why if we can’t have them in our personalize we cannot infuse them into our professional lives either.

This interview with Amy describes what life is like in Cambodia. In regards to how teachers and students think about education in a more communal way, rather than just individualistically. Amy also shares her passion for group work and using stations to practice reading, writing, speaking and listening. And also working with students with diverse educational backgrounds.

In this interview with David, a fellow based in Vietnam for the past two years. We discussed what life is like when things work and when things don’t work. The impact that expectations have on us as teachers. The personal and professional challenges experienced in our teaching life that we can confront. Every experience is a learning moment, based on how we understand it’s impact us. We also discussed the teaching platform of canvas, that David uses in his classes for future Vietnamese English Teachers.

Speeches and Mauritian Music by students

Reflecting on Life purpose and Learning from Lessons as hidden blessing.

This episode I just reflect on my own experiences of seven months living in Mairitius. And then particular how to find peace in nature rather than looking for it constantly in other people or technology or situations that we can’t control. And also to not over identify with the identity of work, but also create new senses of meaning.

Reflection on my first day and Rodrigus and how we define development as the world. What we value more? Be at family friends money the environment nature relationships? And our value system sets the tone for the rest of our lives.

English Language Fellow conference in Madagascar

Life in south africa

Robert helped start an organization that trains Malagasy teachers. It’s a wonderful organization that focuses on empowering Malagasy teachers to train each other. He’ll share his Insight from working there for three years. More information and downloads of teacher manuals available http://mada-enseignants.org

Insights from a Richard, a drama and ESL teacher with over 40 years of teaching and acting experience!

Katherine  Guevara, is a teacher and research who was an English Language Fellow from 2008-2009 in Ecuador. She was placed in a local organization and created an original TV show  about learning English that had over 1 million views just on the local TV.  Her present project is  in creating an app called Mobile Teacher that focuses on teachers in emerging markets or the  majority world sharing their most effective lessons. Videos of teachers can accessed here.  The app will be ready and fully functional by the end of April.

This interview is a review of life in Kazakhstan and ways we take care of our professional duties, while also doing self- care!

In this interview Dani describes her life in Eastern China. She’s been living there for over a year and six months with her husband. She teaches future teachers in a local university. She shared her favorite lessons and personal experiences with food, development, learning Chinese with friends, health, the impacts of development on families and how it compares with her experiences in the US. I also gave a short history of the influence of Chinese people in Mauritius.

Burkina

Causes, consequences and solutions

Alisson described her life in a rural town in Thailand, where she is teaching English and lingusitics to teachers.

Josh shared his experiences of teaching is Uzbekistan. We discussed the differences between his first and second semester at the world languages Institue. We both shared our experiences with how we’re working on self-care to be able to teach more effectively, but also not only think about teaching all the time. He shared the benefits and drawbacks of living in an enclave neighborhood with numerous foreigners, but hoping to integrate more with the locals as well. We also shared our most effective lessons with each other.

Wisdom from Armenia

This Interview with Greg gave an overview of what life is like for an ex-pat living in Burma. He’s there for a second year as an English Language Fellow . He has worked in Morocco, South Korea as well as China in the past. He shared some of his insights in terms of what kind of teaching he’s been doing both in the cities as well as areas. Some of the challenges faced with limited resources. As well as the experience of his wife, in country in terms of how she’s been able to integrate. An insightful look into Burma, a country very few foreigners have been able to visit until recently.