
ELIC Field Notes
Stories, tips, and inspiration from across the world
Posts by weareelic


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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