25 min
Ep. 1: Teaching Abroad and Traveling Solo With Mia Townsend School of Talk
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This episode features Mia Townsend. Mia is a traveling teacher, mental health advocate, and avid traveler! She works as an ESL instructor both virtually and in-person across the globe. Having spent the majority of her twenties and a good deal of her teen years traveling, Mia is often asked what keeps her traveling and her response is always the same; she travels to find community.
Episode Highlights:
What it’s like teaching in Japan, Thailand, South Africa, and Myanmar (Burma)
How a love for travel inspired Mia to pursue teaching, despite never thinking she’d become a teacher.
Tips for finding a community while living abroad including the country Mia highly recommends for solo female travelers.
How to overcome fears related to traveling and living abroad - even if you are a solo traveler.
What does a typical day look like for Mia as she teaches adults a second language abroad
How learning a new language can benefit you as an ESL teacher.
THANK YOU TO OUR SCHOOL OF TALK SPONSORS
Sign up for a FREE information session about teaching abroad; TEFL 101: How to Qualify to Teach English Online & Abroad
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/schooloftalk/message
This episode features Mia Townsend. Mia is a traveling teacher, mental health advocate, and avid traveler! She works as an ESL instructor both virtually and in-person across the globe. Having spent the majority of her twenties and a good deal of her teen years traveling, Mia is often asked what keeps her traveling and her response is always the same; she travels to find community.
Episode Highlights:
What it’s like teaching in Japan, Thailand, South Africa, and Myanmar (Burma)
How a love for travel inspired Mia to pursue teaching, despite never thinking she’d become a teacher.
Tips for finding a community while living abroad including the country Mia highly recommends for solo female travelers.
How to overcome fears related to traveling and living abroad - even if you are a solo traveler.
What does a typical day look like for Mia as she teaches adults a second language abroad
How learning a new language can benefit you as an ESL teacher.
THANK YOU TO OUR SCHOOL OF TALK SPONSORS
Sign up for a FREE information session about teaching abroad; TEFL 101: How to Qualify to Teach English Online & Abroad
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/schooloftalk/message
25 min