S3, E75 - Don't miss this last episode of Season 3. All four hosts are in on this one to talk about the recruiting season. It's January and the international teacher recruiting season is in full swing. It's not over.

The second half of this New Years show is a roundtable (except Matt, who doesn't like New Years) of stories from around the world. Kent drinks Jack Daniels with older Grecians in Greece. Greg skips up to Canada. JP dons her mint colored Kimono and parades through the streets of Tokyo.
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Visit Amazon and add Greg's second book to your arsenal of research before you interview. ⁠International Teacher: The Best-kept Secret in Education⁠ shorturl.at/SMXUZ
In the Appendices, you will find a comprehensive list of great books and useful websites for your research.

Upcoming Recruitment Fairs:
The ⁠UNI Overseas Teacher Fair 2024⁠ is being held in Iowa from Feb 3-4.
The 2024 signature ⁠ISS Global Recruitment Fair⁠ is being held in New York this year! Feb 8-11.

​S3, E74 - In this episode of the ITP, Sharon Dent, our guest with a rich background as an "army brat," shares her journey from being a journalist in Kansas to becoming an international teacher. Her global teaching career, influenced by a lifelong exposure to travel, includes stints in Turkey, China, Laos, India, Chile, and Thailand. Sharon discusses balancing her professional life with personal pursuits, such as a year-long break working with horses and her husband's interest in lutherie. She also talks about creating "The Guide Hog," a blog that reflects her passion for immersive cultural experiences and learning from local guides during her travels.

S3, E73 - Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it) and welcome to our ITP Host Only special episode. In this episode you will hear us share about no less than a dozen different countries while we have a discussion about spending the holidays overseas. Sometimes we work. Many times we travel.

Halfway through the episode, Matt the Family Guy (who jointly founded and created this podcast in March 2021) joins us after a year and a half hiatus. What has he been doing? Has he just been in the basement hiding? Listen and find out.

Join the entire crew and laugh, laugh, laugh. Matt the Family Guy, JPMint, Kent - aka Santa Clause in some Middle Eastern countries, and Greg the Single Guy.

Season's Greetings from the International Teacher Podcast!

S3, E72 - ​Ricardo, a distinguished educator, originally from Panama, earned his National Board Certification while teaching in a public high school in North Carolina. Ricardo brings a wealth of international teaching experience to the International Teacher Podcast. Ricardo not only holds a Master of Education in Spanish but has also expanded his teaching horizon across various other countries. His journey continued to Oman, back to the USA at the United Nations International School in New York, then distance and F2F teaching during the Covid era in China.
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Currently Ricardo is not on the beaches of Kuwait. Those are still blocked off from Covid days. His expertise extends to being an International Baccalaureate (IB) Teacher & Examiner and an AP Reader. On the podcast, Ricardo delves into his diverse experiences in teacher recruitment, global travels, language learning, and the unique challenges of teaching abroad, offering invaluable insights for educators worldwide.

S3, E67 - James Joubert is the Head of School at the Curaçao American Preparatory School on the beautiful Caribbean island of Curaçao. He is originally from South Africa, so Greg asks him to verify the rumor of why elephants are on the Amarula Bottle - elephants get drunk off the ripe amarula fruit. (Don't believe it? ⁠Watch this!⁠ We googled it right after recording this episode. Funny, but actually just an entertaining myth.) All this talk about alcohol required us to list this as *explicit* content. Ahem. We are all educators so we don't need the kiddos listening to the fact that their teachers and administrators are actually "human" and "partake" once in a while.

James is an inspirational educational leader that has been overseas for over two decades and has the stories to prove it. This is a candid discussion full of laughter and joy. Join us and listen to James explain why international educators should always wear pyjamas to bed and what it's like to meet incoming expatriate teachers at the airport arrivals.

S3, E66 - If you love children's picture books, you need to listen to this episode! International educator, A.G. Allen, joins us from Mallorca, Spain to laugh and tell the story behind her best selling children's book. Every teacher needs a copy of her book and every parent should read this to their children. Enjoy a copy of her book.
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library!
by A.G. Allen (Author), Octavio Cordova (Illustrator)
https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-Dinosaurs-Library-Allen/dp/B0C7GJ2L98

Other links mentioned in this episode:
A.G.'s website: AGAllen.me 
Find an illustrator like Octavio Cordova on UpWork.com
Reach out to A.G. Allen via email: [email protected]

S3, E65 - Amaris left the USA in 2010 as a single woman for her first year of teaching, on a whim, to  Korea, then North Carolina, then married with kids in Egypt. Listen as we dig deep into her experiences as an American Woman of Color teaching overseas. This is an excellent episode to listen to! Amaris Miller is currently an ESOL consultant.
Follow on her social media:
TikTok: themerge_consulting
Instagram: themerge_consulting

S3, E64 - “Young man”, he said “I have traveled 5,000 miles to give you possibly the opportunity of a lifetime. If you have those to squander, more power to you!”

In 1977, Keith Boniface left for the beaches of Tripoli to teach overseas. He is now on his seventh official retirement after 39 years overseas. Keith had to actually write down a list of the positions he’s held because it’s so varied. Not only was he a teacher and an Athletic director, Keith was a Principal for 12 years in multiple international schools and traveled to schools all over the world as part of a School Accreditation team.

S3, E63 - We have discussed this before, but now we have added a bright new cohost. Jacqueline of JPMint Consulting joins our ITP team with many years of overseas experiences, not only with a woman's perspective, but as a Canadian, a veteran international teacher, an administrator, and now a recruitment consultant for international teachers.
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JP starts off by quizzing the boys on what makes a great candidate but doesn't hesitate to join in with Kent making fun of Greg. Check out her website at: https://www.jpmintconsulting.com/

JP has also pushed us into the old world of FaceBook with our new group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/itpexpat and Kent promises to join his cat on an ITP TikTok.
Enjoy the show.

S3, E61 - Sybil Hall is a mother, wife, International Teacher, financial freedom advocate, consultant, and brand new author. Visit her website at www.sybilhall.com while you listen to this episode. Teachers both overseas and in the USA will learn so much from her! Burn Bright, Not Out is her brilliant new book.

S3, E60 - We have started off the new school year with a new casual chat episode. We set aside the video chat, headphones, and desktop mics to use our lapel mics and comfy chairs in a fireside chat format. In this episode, Kent digs deeper into the chapter "10 Reasons NOT to be an International Teacher" from Greg's book, Finding the Right Fit.https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Right-FIt-Professional-International/dp/1667828835

S3, E59 - Reaching out from Boston and Las Vegas, Georgia and Christine have a discussion with Greg about life balance. [Their] Making the Grade podcast is for current and former teachers to share notes, define success & assess their own happiness in the classroom and beyond.
Join us as we play "this or that", a game that all teachers can relate to. Navigate to the Making the Grade podcast or website to keep up with two former elementary teachers who have moved on to new, successful chapters in their careers. https://makingthegradepod.com/
This episode was originally recorded in May of 2023.

S3, E58 - In this vibrant episode of the International Teacher Podcast, Greg, Kent, and a vacationing Matt interview David Schneer, an international educator currently based in Singapore. David shares his fascinating journey from his Texan roots to a globe-trotting career in education. Having spent significant time teaching in Japan, including unique roles at language colleges and magnet schools, David recounts his transition to Singapore, a place he describes as a multicultural Shangri-La. From navigating language rules at home to exploring the rich flora and bustling international environment of Singapore, David offers listeners an engaging glimpse into life as an international teacher.

The episode is packed with humor and adventure, as David shares hilarious anecdotes, including brushes with police in Japan and Thailand. The hosts and David dive deep into the nuances of international education, bilingual family dynamics, and cultural adaptation. With witty banter, travel tales, and reflections on the joys and challenges of teaching abroad, this episode captures the essence of the expat teaching lifestyle and the camaraderie of the ITP crew.

S3, E57 - Meet Ilonka, a German international teacher living in Cairo. She's been around the world. Greg meets her for the first time just three minutes before the interview. Listen in on the conversation as Ilonka shares her stories like being interviewed at a principal's house over a bottle of wine, dancing on the school desks (or not), and spending way too much money on real books. The opportunity to teach overseas is not just a well kept secret in the USA. It's a secret shared around the world.

S3, E55 - Join us as we go behind the scenes of the Diversity Collective. Alan Phan and Aparna Sundaram, cofounders of the Diversity Collective, have each spent more than twenty years in international schools around the world. Navigate to their website as you listen: https://www.diversityfair.org/
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The best written words to describe this dynamic duo are their website header: A Recruiting and Consulting Agency that Advances Diversity - The Diversity Collective, a POC-owned and operated organization, works to place exceptional leaders and educators in schools. As a facilitator between educators and partner schools committed to strengthening their leadership, we work to bridge the current diversity gap seen at schools around the world.
Beyond those meaningful words, listen to this episode and hear their voices.

S3, E54 - Jason Lasky weaves his international stories together as only a playwright can. Join us for our discussion about theatre, teaching, family and so much more. Jason's passion is a chaos theory of sorts. Failure leads to failure leads to "Ahh!". Jason is a true renaissance man in the arts, a messenger of joy, and a father of three.

S3, E53 - Mary Noble is the Middle School Principal at American Community School of Beirut (ACS) in Lebanon. Her message is for teachers not to "burn out". Don't leave the career of teaching unless you have explored the benefits of the overseas experience. Mary has taught in Alaska, Thailand, Oregon, Egypt, Dubai, and now in Lebanon. She was a single mom for some of the time and moved between the USA and overseas several times. Listen to this episode and learn from this amazing educator.

S3, E52 - This is the first episode of a series focusing on Dillan and Valerie, a teaching couple new to international. They began their journey back in 2022 when they began their research and signed a contract. Once they arrive in their new country and have taught a bit through the 2023-24 school year, they will record another episode with us and check in about their experiences. We hope you enjoy hearing about the beginning of their journey.

S3, E51 - In this episode, meet Dian Seidel. She is a newly published author of Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand. You can pre-order her book on Amazon now, or after you hear this exciting interview. Imagine at age 60, after retiring from a governmental Science career, you decide you want to give back to society by teaching adults. Then add a twist and decide to teach somewhere outside of the comfort of your own country. Finally, when you arrive to teach, your students are the exact opposite of adults. Listen in.

"Teacher Dian" and "Teacher Steve" are the epitome of ACTIVE RETIREMENT.
Enjoy this episode.