Teaching in Ontario (Canada) is brilliant for a number of reasons; the pension’s reputedly one of the best in the world, and the teacher salary benefits: massage, dental, optometry, even orthopedics! — are something to write home about. But of course traveling the world is kind of amazing…and a developing–or feeding, for some!–your sense of [...]
In Australia, I spent my first job curriculum curving and tuning my ear into their accent. Fights broke out regularly in our playground, and I was lucky if it didn’t happen in my classroom. My class was a sort of bike-crashed, cut-up and scabbed lot with teeth, and uniform going everywhere, suggesting that they were [...]
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