Teacher’s House Blog

Untold underpaid heros

Teachers are a great element of the society, although some of us and some of our parents are fed up of dealing with parent-teacher meetings and don’t attend them, some people forget to realize that while their off to work, it’s the teachers who take care of the kids with love and kindness. They are the ones who teach them mannerisms and good gesture. Yes you would say that isn’t true, but this what is true is that while people More

WorldView

In January 2011, Al Jazeera along with Youtube have come together to interview world leaders, ask them questions that aren’t usually asked in the audiences perspective. Here is your chance to get it going with the leaders. You already lost your chance with Obama and David Cameron. However you can choose someone else later on, my vote is on Ahmedinejad but he might refuse.
This user friendly step is a good one made as not just news agencies but now More

Learning Curves & Friendly Advice

Whether you’re teaching Chinese youngsters English or taking a well-earned break from teaching to nip over to Spain for a spot of sun-bathing (before marking TONS of course-work, don’t worry…), teaching English all over the place is fabulous and good for both you and the students: good for you because you get to experience new cultures and good for them because, well, they learn, providing you don’t get extremely sun-burnt and have to take the day off work…

But anyway, More

Running free

While I’m off round the world teaching, or having the aforementioned break, I still like to maintain an exercise program, one that consists mainly of running.All dedicated runners know about the importance of a good pair of running shoes. The right shoes can provide you with months of speedy comfort and boosted training abilities, while the wrong pair can leave you terribly uncomfortable or even severely injured. There is no question that all runners must be very particular when choosing More

A holiday from teaching I feel.

Time for a brief holiday from the job so we set sights on Florida. Traveling can get expensive when you tally everything up from airport transfers to the daily food budget. When I fly to Florida, the only way to go is to rent a private home in Orlando or the coastal regions. Villas in Florida may seem like an ultra luxurious and extravagant way to travel, however, when you break down the total cost, villas in Florida are a More

Getting around on a teacher’s salary

Thanks to the internet, it is possible to travel the world cheap. This is because you can find the cheapest flights online. There are 3 types of websites that offer discounts on air travel that we’ll discuss. They are aggregators, traditional booking engines, and airline websites.

Aggregators are great because they allow you to compare airfare prices from many different airlines. They make money from advertisements and affiliate hotel deals in order to provide their services free of charge. These More

Holiday Homes

As many teachers may have experienced, just because teaching allows you to have long breaks, it doesn’t mean that is a bonus. Gaining the same holidays as thousands of pupils throughout the UK means only one thing: holidays are expensive. There is however plenty of things teachers can do to escape home life without the expense.

Holiday parks are a great and cheap means to get the break you want without having to worry about large accommodation costs. This is More

Throwing Darts at a Map

There are much better ways to decide where to teach English abroad that going to the office stationers buying a map and throwing darts at it. Travelling and teaching allows you to explore other countries and cultures. People are different, and in every country there is always a diversity of lifestyles. That said, you are going to have a very different classroom culture teaching in China, then you would in Brazil. There are certain things that you are going to More

The Magic Portal

When I lived at home, around the corner from me there was a family that always had bikes for sale (as well as everything else you could ever think of that could be for sale, but I am not going to get into that here or otherwise it’d be a novel and not a very thrilling novel at that).
When I say always, I mean that the number of bikes didn’t diminish, even when people bought them. It was as More

Technology: Where Would We Be Without It?

It’s hard to look back and remember just how it used to be before the internet really got going: how did we find out about things that were happening on the other side of the world that were not reported by the newspapers we could buy in the shops? The answer is we didn’t, or if we did, it took a lot longer to find out about it, and by the time we did it was usually months later. But More