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The job fair season is about half over, but there are a few fairs coming up in Istanbul, Bangkok, London, and Bethesda. Meanwhile, many of us know where we will be next year. Here’s a sample.

Robert College in Istanbul
Dulwich College in Shanghai
Munich International Schools in Germany
Swiss International School in Basel
American International School in Mozambique
Jakarta International [...]

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Sub pay! Yahoo! This school pays us when we sub instead of expecting us to trade out subbing for each other. Lots of teachers are going to the job fairs, so there is lots of sub work now. It’s easy, fun work, and I don’t miss [...]

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One of the most valuable tools for traveling teachers is an on-line content management system that helps you build a class website. I have all of my course materials stored on Teacher Web, and I can activate or deactivate documents according to the unit I am teaching. This is my virtual file cabinet where I [...]

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You can’t take it all with you. That file cabinet full of lesson plans and curriculum ideas is too much to lug from school to school and country to country. This week, I asked my colleagues about their favorite web-based curriculum resources. These range from general teacher resources to specific content area resources to professional [...]

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We are back in Cairo after a long winter break in the States. It was almost a month long this year because of the long sequence of Muslim and Christian holidays, and we were able to have great visits with friends and family from Virginia to California. Now as I iron my clothes and write [...]

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The teachers we have met seem to fall into three broad categories. There are young teachers who are seeing the world and having a heck of a good time before they settle down. There are mid-career teachers who are making a career out of international teaching. They have taught in several countries and know which [...]

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If Mike wrote this blog, you would be much more entertained. He wrote this letter of recommendation with a disclaimer to the student, “I always tell the truth.” To which the student replied, “That’s what I’m counting on, sir.”
December 11, 2007
Dear Members of the Admissions Committee:
I am an English teacher, so by definition I love [...]

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On October 9, there was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about police brutality. I was going to post the link here, but all of a sudden I can’t get to www.sfgate.com at all. How interesting. Everyday I read the liberal news from the Chronicle to balance out the liberal news from the Times. [...]

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Tremendous parental pressure caused the consequences to be overturned. A deal was worked out (Mistakes were made?). All of the seniors will be able to walk at graduation tonight. Mike is there; I am not.
This is the way the school year has gone, and thank God, the school year is gone. We’ll be in Albuquerque [...]

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