5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became a Teacher Abroad

I sat down and thought of things I wish I would’ve known before becoming a teacher abroad. Here’s the first five, there will be more because, you know, hindsight is 20-20. 1) It goes really fast I’m not sure why this is. I think it’s a combo of moving to a new place and the […]

Go-To Teaching Activities: 5 More Favorite Lessons and Activities

Here are 5 more of our favorite activities. #1 is the best and we’re not going to make you scroll to the bottom to see it. Guess the Characters (Worksheet) Notebook Flaps (Activity) Top 5 (Game) Cootie Catchers Compound Word Game 1. Guess the Characters This is a very elaborate unscramble. The questions can be […]

Go-To Teaching Activities: Our Top 5 Favorite Teaching Things

Here are our 5 favorite activities/projects/crafts we swear by. #1 is the best but we’re not going to make you scroll to the bottom to see it. Grid Questions Mini Books Flip Books Picture Searches Drawing Tutorials 1. Grid Questions These are our all time favorite things to do. You only need to print a […]

Problems with the School

This was a 3-part blog about all the problems I had with my school. I moved it into one big post here. I had worked as an Auxiliar in Andalucia and had minimal problems. This was after I moved to another location. If you have any questions about the Auxiliar program in Spain feel free […]

Spring Short Stories

We do a lot of things that don’t warrant their own blog post. So here’s some short bits of what we’ve been doing. It’s been raining a lot I got sick We took a big bike ride I’ve been doing a lot of fun projects with my students The Rain in Spain Falls Softly on […]

A Day in My Life: Tuesday

I walk to school at 10:15 which gives me not-enough-time-to-arrive-on-time. But hey, Spain. So I arrive at 10:34 almost everyday and should be there at 10:30. If I get there on time I am usually the first person in the classroom so it’s better for everyone for me to give them 5 minutes to get […]

Things Get Stranger

Things just keep getting stranger. The school is already strange enough with its layout. The teachers are characters (both in a good and bad way). Also the school is half broken all the time: the internet usually doesn’t work, the toilets don’t have seats or toilet paper, half the computers are running Microsoft 2006, and […]

How to Find Your Textbooks Online

This is obviously not for folks back at home but rather for the people in the program. I know most of us have been told to prepare material for the class but haven’t been given any of the books. This means we have no idea what the students are learning or what we can expect […]

Observing Classes

My first week not doing my introduction lesson (as in my first week really being at proper school) was supposed to be spent observing. I was told just to observe, my coordinator said he would spread the word that I would only observe. How can I teach or plan lessons for classes I know nothing […]

Second Day of School

(I want to make a note here I’m not going to post every day of school. Just the first few days of the first week to see how much things change and how chaotic things are/were.) If you’re wondering why I had my first day of school but Chris didn’t – his school said he […]