Educators Going Global | Podcast Guru

Details

Our mission is to inform both veteran and aspiring international educators about working overseas - What it’s like and how it's changing, Where to find more information, Why "going global" is so attractive and How and When to work through the recruiting process. We do this via targeted episodes where we give informational interviews as well as sharing personal vignettes related to all aspects of international education. We work to tell the full story so you are really in the know about international schools. We invite you to travel, teach and connect with us!

Recent Episodes

111. International Education -- Shaping a Giving Spirit

Text us with topic or guest suggestions! How does being a student in an international school shape a person? There are many ways, and of course, each person’s experience will be different. One result of having the experiences that students gain through their international education is that they become a teacher in an international school. From there, they may move on to become an administrator or a school head - or even the head of a whole association of schools! This has been the pathway of ...

49 MIN

110. Coming to America: A Conversation With International Educator-Authors Who Relocated to the US

Text us with topic or guest suggestions! For many of us, the phrase “Going Global” elicits an image of someone leaving North America to head off to an exotic destination overseas. But how many of us think about folks for whom “Going Global” meant leaving their home country to teach in North America? Our guests on this show did just that! Coreen Anderson, Ed.D., has built a career demonstrating that education knows no borders, from classrooms in Jamaica and the United States to online universi...

78 MIN

109. What Prompts us to Go Global for the First Time? A Conversation With Dr. Ettie Zilber

Text us with topic or guest suggestions! If you spoke to 20 international educators and asked them what factors led them to take the initial leap into international education, you would likely get 20 very different answers! And if you interviewed as many as 94, well, you can imagine the stories you would hear. Such is the task that Dr. Ettie Zilber set herself. Ettie joined Audey for this episode and shared the eight categories of Catalysts, as she has dubbed them, that emerged from her docto...

57 MIN

108. On Being a Head Here and There: A Comparison Among Schools, with Lee Fertig

Text us with topic or guest suggestions! What are international schools like? One way to find out is to compare them with schools in your home country. Since David and I both hail from North America, we thought it would be interesting to ask someone who has been a head of school in multiple oversea countries and in the U.S. to help us draw some of these comparisons. So we turned to Lee Fertig, who was a director in Brazil, Spain, and Belgium and is now the head of an independent school ...

66 MIN

107. Transitions Life Coaching Scenario 2: "Why Isn't This Transition Going Smoothly? I've Managed it Successfully in the Past!"

Text us with topic or guest suggestions! How would you respond to this statement: “Everyone can benefit from having a life coach”? It’s hard to argue with the idea that having a supportive, non-judgemental listener to share our journey with can be super helpful. This episode continues our series that centers on Transitions Coaching for International Educators. We have selected some realistic transition difficulties that could be – and have been – experienced by educators in the internat...

29 MIN