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Should I stay or should I go?
The recruiting train for international teachers is proceeding full steam ahead. At this time of year, educators looking for new horizons are researching schools, sending out resumes, and interviewing via Skype. Administrators are seeking out the best candidates to fill the vacancies the … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo, Egypt, Expat experience, Teaching
Tagged international school, job search
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Three part one: when the professor talks, I listen
So here’s a funny thing that happened this week. A little background is required: All students in the IB Diploma Program have to write an Extended Essay. It’s a pretty rigorous thing, a sort of senior paper on steroids. Every school … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching
Tagged Alan Dundes, dreams, Extended Essay, folklore, IB, International Baccalaureate, threes
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Ms. Lorna in the conservatory with the scanner
Week 3 in the Cairo Greenhouse for Books. I inquire periodically as to when we might expect the AC repair person. “Two or three days, inshallah.” It’s the inshallah that gets you every time. Last Tuesday the plant man came and … Continue reading
Constant vigilance
AIS West offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program as an option for grades 11 and 12. The IB was developed as a standardized international educational program and so the IB organization is quite strict about how it is implemented. In May (or November for … Continue reading
This is my tribe
Among the many great benefits of working at an international school is the opportunity for professional development. I’m lucky to work at a school that provides a generous annual allowance for each teacher to spend on training in his or … Continue reading
1:1
ICS is what’s called a one-to-one laptop school. Here, that means that every kid in grade 6 is entitled to his own school-issued computer. It’s funny to think how normal this seems to me now in Addis Ababa, yet how … Continue reading
Posted in International Community School, Teaching
Tagged 1:1 laptop, ICS, one-to-one laptop, technology
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Continuity
Our school is 50 years old this year. It’s hard for me to picture what this school would have been like in 1964. That year I was in kindergarten at Merriewood Elementary School in Lafayette, California, where Mrs. Collins taught … Continue reading
Solidarity forever
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere, Teaching
Tagged contracts, MEA, Medford, Medford teacher strike, Pete Seeger, unions
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Saving grace
Well, folks, it’s been quite a month so far, and not in a good way. Not to put too fine a point on it, I’d say it’s been craptastic. I won’t bore you with the unpleasant details. Thankfully there are … Continue reading
Posted in Addis Ababa, International Community School, Teaching
Tagged ASA, Elizabeth Laird, middle school, street children, The Garbage King, theater
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Put to the test
The end of the academic year is upon us. For ICS high schoolers this means what it does for students everywhere: finals. Da-da-da-DUM. ICS high school students are on a special three-day exam schedule this week. On Thursday and Friday, … Continue reading
Lorna of Arabia 