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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... Read More

Teacher education career

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Bridging the Gap Back to Your Passport Country

Imagine the feeling of moving out for the first time. You’ve lived in this family's culture your whole life, and now... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

People Teacher leadership

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... Read More

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You Can Do Hard Things With Confidence — Here's How

Moving overseas is challenging. Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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Why You Don't Have to be a Language Person to Teach English

Why You Don't Have to Be a "Language Person" to Teach English Read More

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Music in Mongolia: Part 2

I miss the slower pace of life in Mongolia. In fact, it’s one of the things I miss the most. I can still picture the... Read More

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Music in Mongolia

Music is not the universal language. Hear me out. Read More