Armen Kassabian: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to Uzbekistan -I will teach here for the next 8 months. I’ll share my stories and reflections for 2021-2022 through bi-weekly recordings about the life of expat teacher in Central Asia.
In 2019 and 2020, I taught in Mauritius for 1 year and 5 months, and I look forward sharing what I learned! I also interviewed over 60 English Language Fellows working on 6 different continents.
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.
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
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
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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With a plethora of teaching, Cap Verde to Colombia to Angola, Kim share her insights and areas growth and learning along her teaching journey.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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World heritage site
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I overview some mental physical and emotional and visualization techniques are used to be able to run a triathlon.
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In this podcast I overview the techniques that I’m using to teach two conversation classes. Techniques related to growth mindset, positive psychology, using visualization to increase well- being, breathing techniques and of course building relationships with my students and having them relationships with each other.
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I give a short overview of an experience teaching breathing skills and stress reduction skills to students and teachers in a school.
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In this episode I describe how to teach Jolly phonics, it’s a system for teaching students phonetic sounds to improve their reading writing and speaking and listening skills.
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In this episode I review strategies for keeping oneseld grounded in their lives. Ways to stay mindful in relating to one’s on experiences and relationships to others and oneself, using their breath, emotions and bringing their attention to tension in their body, become a more self-aware and self-regulated person.
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In this interview with fellow Joe Voigts, he shares his previous traveling, teaching a d podcasting experiences around the world for the past four years. And he shared some of the insightful moments of growth and inspiring quotes that he lives his life by as well. Joe is placed in Jerusalem and is learning all about the cultures, languages, people and stories of individuals living there. It was very inspiring interview.
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In this interview Eileen Finn, a fellow doing her second fellowship in India will share her experiences of adjusting to a new culture. Having taught for over 15 years ESL internationally and in the states, her specialty is in teaching business English. She shares her experiences teaching at the University, inspiring her students and being inspired by them every day. We also both share actions that we take in order to become more self aware in our path towards becoming more emotionally intelligent teachers.
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As a fellow in Armenia, Anna shared her experiences working there for the past two months and what she is looking forward to work on. She’s creating an online newspaper with her students and is passionate about teaching writing skills to her students using social media and social communication. We also shared insights as I am actually Armenian origin, but working in Mauritius. We shared our perspectives on gender roles, emotional intelligence, learning new languages, dance as well as cultural similarities and differences.
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Wendy was an English language fellow as well as a specialist. Having worked in Columbia, Tunisia and presently living in Mexico. She’s had wonderful experiences in Waldorf schools, in adult education and specifically specializes in working with children and training teacher trainers. You’ll be hearing about her experiences and really how inspiring she is. Having already written one forum article, having done a state department webinar and as well as being a talented and creative singer, you’ll hear some of her experiences.
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In this interview, Shannon describes her life in Uzbekistan. It’s actually her second term teaching there. This year she’s predominately working with training teachers. She discusses the experiences she’s had from the previous year compared to this year challenges, as well as moments of triumph. Also how she was able to overcome the intercultural differences that occur in her classroom.
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An interview with the director educator and researcher Per from Sweden.
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A well known Mauritian Flute player named Bimal describes the soul of music and the source of inspiration for many musicians.
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An interview with 2 Holistic Education Teachers.
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Using imagery to teach emotional intelligence
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Insights on the levels of Inclusion
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I sights
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Rajan leads exceedingly interesting life. He is in his 80s, and has been living as a traveling artist photographer teacher as well as doctor. Most recently he starred in the film acting as Gandhi. He’s presently in Mauritius spending his time doing art as well as relaxing. I had a great interview with him to learn more about his experiences in India as well as abroad.
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Teachers, professors and researchers from South Africa, Mauritius, India and the French island of Reunion met together for a symposium oninclusive education. Here within this podcast lies various insights that they shared during their presentations.
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Howard shared his experiences teaching in Togo in West Africa, as well as studying and working in Mexico. Howard is a truly Holstic teacher with wonderful projects and as well as a really engaging and inspiring personality.
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In this podcast Annabelle describes her life in Montenegro and I describe mine in Mauritius. We also share our favorite strategies for teaching. We both work in training pre-primary and primary teachers. Annabelle has a wonderful foundation in the psychological and intellectual stages of development for children. So her classes have this focus of giving teachers the theoretical and practical framework for teaching English. She’s also very passionate about mindfulness as I am and we have both even done research studies on this topic. We also discussed the work-life flow balance.
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Interview with Dr. Dipane from Kwazulu- Natal University.
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A healer who is blind from Mauritius shares his experiences.
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In this podcast we will be listening to the rain in Mauritius. We will be learning how to listen to the rain in our inner and outer lives. We will discuss the metaphor of how the rain is similar to pain or emotions that we experience that we may not want. We will also learn how to observe and accept, rather than fight and reject when the inner or outer rain shows up in our lives. It’s an approach to emotional intelligence, where we relate to our emotions by knowing what we can name, we can tame.
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In this class students were working on reading topics of interest to them. Rather than everyone being given the same reading text, they all received a different text, either fiction or nonfiction genres. And they were encouraged to first identify certain parts of speech such as present continuous, past and future tense, adjectives and subject and verb agreement. And the higher level task was to retell what they had read as well as explain why it was personally relevant to them with connections they may have to text.they agree to disagree didn’t agree with what they read about. Students share their final reflections in this podcast
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This podcast reviews how in every moment of our lives we can either blame other people or take responsibility for our own thoughts, emotions and actions. The choice is in your eyes, ears, mouth and perspectives you decide to take.
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Karen Hart is a specialist in developing culturally relevant materials that are engaging for the Deaf students. She works both in South African cities and in rural areas, as well as in various countries from India to Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates to New Zealand. Helping schools make more appropriate curriculum materials for Deaf students learning needs. She shared her experiences and some insights that would help me to be able to create similar materials for the students and teachers I’ll be working with here in Mauritius. More can be learned about the innovative app she developed: https://youtu.be/yTNlpLIzpIA
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Independance day
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Updates from Mauritius
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Beth is a fellow teacher Hungry. She’s had experience in the Ohio school system, working with adults as well as children. We discussed how to work with students who have diverse needs. Also the impact of technology has on students and adults ability to focus in an overstimulated world. We also reflected on our personal experiences of having ADHD and ADD and how we’ve been able to compensate by turning our weaknesses into strengths. Similar to what we do for our students everyday in the classroom.
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Didactics and pedagogy for teaching numeracy & literacy with Pascal & Terry.
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Discussing our physical activity helps me feel more grounded and better. And I can teach better by doing more physical activity, because I’m really seeing excess energy and stress that I don’t need in the body.
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Learning about how to fast and of course what foods to put in your body and not to put into your body is of the utmost importance. I describe how emotions, food and fasting impact our sense of well- being. As a teacher you must learn how to take care of yourself in order to take care of your students. Learning what to eat how to eat went to eat and when not to eat can give you that sense of empowerment.
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Understanding our emotions impacts our relationships both personally professionally. It helps us become more emotionally intelligent. In schools we don’t teach emotional intelligence, we often just teach academic intelligence most of the time. Students need to learn how to not just clean their bodies in their teeth but their mind and their emotions as well. Students and teachers need more opportunities to strengthen their EQ not just their ability to pass exams. If students have challenges that are impacting them beyond the exam paper, they need to work through that in order to be able to better memorize and learn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Speeches and Mauritian Music by students
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Reflecting on Life purpose and Learning from Lessons as hidden blessing.
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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.
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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.
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English Language Fellow conference in Madagascar
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Life in south africa
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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
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Insights from a Richard, a drama and ESL teacher with over 40 years of teaching and acting experience!
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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.
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This interview is a review of life in Kazakhstan and ways we take care of our professional duties, while also doing self- care!
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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.
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Burkina
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Causes, consequences and solutions
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Alisson described her life in a rural town in Thailand, where she is teaching English and lingusitics to teachers.
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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.
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Wisdom from Armenia
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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.
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This interview was with the English Language Fellow Andre Boyer, a teacher with over 20 years of experience. He shares numerous insights about how to teach students in a way that inspires and motivates them. He’s a teacher trainer and has worked in universities, primary and secondary schools in numerous countries. He shared various nuggets of wisdom that apply both in the classroom as well as in the class of life! A teacher should always be a life long self- reflective learner and communicator!
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This interview was a discussion with Saada, about her experiences over the past two years working in Bahrain. Both positive and sometimes trying moments were shared. We reflected on how we cannot change the way educational system function, we can only give our positive suggestions and energy.
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This conversation with Amy and Dan describe the life of moving to South Africa with a partner, activities they do for fun there, a description of the Nal’ibali literacy program, and other multi literacy teaching activities in Amy’s class.
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Sharing experiences in teaching in South Africa and Mauritius. Reflections on technology, teacher training and meeting students needs over the teachers needs. The art or robotic nature of teaching. Teachers are students for life.
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Life in Vietnam and Mauritius. Comparisons and reflections from two English Language fellows
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Reflections on beach water waves and birds chirping
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Overview of my experiences at the Maha Shivatri festival in 2019 in Mauritius
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Reflecting on rain In Mauritius
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During this podcast interview with Jamila, who was a fellow from 2014-2016 in Jordan. She’s now doing a PhD at Georgia State University, researching teachers who are part of the English language fellowship. I wanted to know what inspired her to do this research and what her experiences were like in Jordan enjoy the interview.
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Music classes at the Gandhi Institute in Mauritius in how to play the Sitar.
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During this episode I was invited to go to the beach called Flac with my tabla teacher and all of his students. It was a last-minute opportunity that came up the same morning of the outing. I was exhausted but said yes to the unknown. I met many new people and had a wonderful Sunday and went paragliding. I learned a lot of Hindi words through music along the way, come join me for the trip!
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Comparing life in Mauritius and New York. Carol is from Mauritius, but moved to New York to work for a year for the association of Francophone, and just returned recent. I just moved to Mauritius from New York to work in her country. Listen to our highlights and lowlights, and the Mauritus birds in the backgrounds.
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The Indira Gandhi Institue located in Mauritius houses the Indian Embassy as well as various cultural, musical and dance related trainings for the local community. They also have a comprehensive library. This episode will discuss some of the foundations of Indian music and my experiences discovering this wonderful resource in Mauritius.
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This traditional tamil religious festival, involves sacrifice, fasting and carrying a large cavadee altar to the Lord Muraga. Enjoy the sounds and stories
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Welcome to Mauritius • Finding Housing in a foreign country • English Language Fellow
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