A Formative Experience — Interview with a GAP Teacher
The path to living and working overseas is rarely a straight line. And the road can twist and turn even more once...
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Your Perfect First Job After College
You’re freshly graduated, Pomp and Circumstance still ringing in your ears, and as the echoes of the inspiring speeches...
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What if My Spouse Doesn't Teach?
You love to teach. You love your spouse. You’d both love to live overseas. There’s just one problem—your spouse is not...
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5 Tips to Overcome Culture Shock Like a Pro
We talk a lot about building cross-cultural community. It’s something we love, and we see so much benefit for everyone...
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Support To Help Teachers Thrive
People are central to the ELIC story. We exist because we care about the people we serve and the teachers we send. We...
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Never Used Your Passport? Here's Why You Should Teach Overseas
For some, traveling—especially moving overseas—is an intimidating thought. It sounds difficult and frightening to be in...
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Talking Transition—Interview with an ELIC Teacher
Transition is a familiar friend to most ELIC teachers. It comes with its challenges, of course, but the range of...
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A Balancing Act—Staying in Challenging Places
ELIC intentionally goes to difficult places. This doesn't necessarily mean dangerous places; we are privileged to work...
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Tools for Your Family to Thrive Overseas
ELIC is driven by the idea of the family—found and forged—on our teams and in local communities overseas. These groups...
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4 Ways You Can Join ELIC to Impact Lives in 2025
A new year is always full of opportunity, and we are excited about where ELIC is headed in 2025. The best adventures...
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5 Steps to Get Your Master's and Launch Your Overseas Teaching Career
Education matters for a teacher in any situation, but it's an especially interesting story for native speakers teaching...
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How Extroverts Use Their Gifts Overseas
Our teams need all kinds of people who function in different ways to be effective. We’re taking a couple of blog posts...
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How Teaching In Vietnam Shaped this Family's Life
What has happened in your life in the last 20 years? Maybe you’ve raised your kids, or maybe you've been the kid...
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Why Introverts are Indispensable as Teachers Overseas
Overseas teaching teams need all kinds of different people functioning in different ways to be effective. We’re taking...
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5 Lessons from 40+ Years Overseas
We are grateful for the gift of over four decades of teaching overseas! Remembering what we’ve learned in our past is...
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You Can Do Hard Things With Confidence — Here's How
Moving overseas is challenging.
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Interview with a Grown-Up TCK
Abbie is about to move overseas to live and teach in Asia. But it won’t be her first time living overseas. She grew up...
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7 Things Younger than ELIC
We’ve seen a lot in the decades since ELIC’s founding in 1981. But “More than forty years” is just a number. So let’s...
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Why YOU Should Lead an Impact Team
Impact teams are a truly special way to experience a new culture and make a difference overseas with your community...
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3 Paths to Educating Your Kids Overseas
ELIC teachers get a front-row seat to the difference that a quality education makes in their students’ lives, so it’s...
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How 4 Weeks of Training Can Change Your Life Overseas
Imagine crouching at the starting line of a race, ready to launch into motion. You hear the starting gun and push off...
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4 Ways Your Non-English Degree Equips You to Teach English Overseas
You don’t have to have an English degree to teach English overseas. Quality teaching is an important priority, but the...
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3 Ways ELIC Makes Ripples of Impact
There is an enormous need for English education in many parts of the world. Our work is a drop in the bucket of that...
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Call and Response
Call out! It was the first thing you ever did, and it’s likely you haven’t stopped since. We were born with the...
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5 Items You Should Pack
A nagging pressure tightens around the back of your neck, spreading across your shoulders. Your thoughts are muddled:...
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When a TCK Returns
TCK /tēsēkā/ noun: Third Culture Kid; someone who lived a part, or all, of their childhood in a culture(s) or...
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10 Lessons in Leadership
In my early morning hours—with a cup of coffee in hand—I stop to think about what I have learned about leadership. What...
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How Growing up Overseas Has Opened My Eyes
Anndrea Scroggins Thirteen years of my life were spent in Southeast Asia. During that time, I was a minority. I had...
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Well, I can't be gone that day...
He pulled open the calendar on his phone, swiping to the days when he would be gone. It would only be four weeks, but…...
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Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly.
[Note: The following statement from ELIC President, Tim Davis, was originally posted to the ELIC website on June 4,...
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People Without a Country
A couple of weeks ago, we had to make a run to the border to change and extend our visa. We entered Cambodia on tourist...
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Lighten Up: Tips for Packing Smart
Photo by Erwan Hesry on Unsplash You always set out to pack light, but then life happens. What if you need that extra...
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Life in Mongolia: Q&A
Have you ever wondered what life was like in Mongolia? An ELIC teacher, Wes, shares his favorite memories and...
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I Think I Might be a Little Crazy
Today I’m traveling back to Asia. After a sleepless night, I woke up this morning with a paralyzing thought… “Who does...
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