On Monster I often get a job listing for teaching English abroad. I finally took a look at one of the sites cited. What always strikes me are the perks offered: 20 hours of teaching each week, overtime pay, fully furnished and paid for apartment, health benefits. This would be great if it allowed me to put $20,000 in the bank and learn another language (or brush up on the other one aside from English I know and currently teach). Unfortunately, I think the conversion amounts to under $10,000 for most of the listings which are typically in Korea or China or other Asian places. Have any of you done this or doing this now?
Educators
- A School Yard Blog
- Apple Core
- AssortedStuff - Exactly What It Says!
- Blog of a math teacher
- Brand new to the blog
A researcher of the blogging community. - Doug's On-Line Journal
- EduBlog Insights
- Educational Bloggers' Network
- Educational Weblogs
Blogs and information compiled by Al Delgado. - Folkbum's Rambles and Rants
- Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology
- Joanne Jacobs
- Making Contact
- Ms. Frizzle
- Nobody Knows Anything
- ReformK12.com: Education Reform is NOT Rocket Science!
- Teacher, Teacher
- The Shifted Librarian
- Twilight
- Weblogg-ed Vol.2: Using Weblogs in Education
- Write It
Other Blogs of Note
Educator Readings
Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
As much as I would love to take on of the courses online with this book, this book is much cheaper ($15 vs $350) and possibly will be just as good.William Glasser: The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion
I saw Glasser speak a few years ago. Just as powerful in person as this book is in your lap and then in your mind.Neil Postman: The End Of Education : Redefining the Value of School
From the back of the book: "...today's schools promote the false 'gods' of economic utility, consumerism, technology, or ethnic separatism and resentment."W. James Popham: The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action
Shows much more than I thought possible about the dangers of too much testing. (*****)Martin L. Gross: The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools
This affirms for me many thoughts I have had about the public schooling system in the US. (*****)
