teaching Archives - Runaway Brit

Lockdown! A Teacher’s Thoughts on the Corona Pandemic

Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Health & Fitness, Heartbreak, Life, Relationships, School, Teaching, Working Overseas international teaching, teaching, teaching overseas

It’s been 26 days since my world shut down. It’s been far longer for others. It began slowly. Back, in January, news of an unknown virus in China reached us here in Europe. I barely took

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Friends and Family, Health & Fitness, Teaching, Working Overseas Bratislava, coronavirus, europe, international teaching, Slovakia, teaching

With coronavirus currently decimating the travel industry, it’s a good time to write about my life as an international teacher instead. I don’t write frequently, because I can't travel full-time like I'd hoped I would

Exciting News: I’m Moving to India!

Asia, Featured, Teaching, Travelling india, Mumbai, Search Associates, teaching, travelling, work overseas

Judging by the response that I have received from various people to this news, you probably fall into one of the following categories: “India?! Are you crazy?” or “Wow! What an amazing experience!” If I’m

The Life of an International School Teacher

Asia, Literature, School, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas international school, school, students, teaching, working overseas

7 months ago I wrote the post ‘Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!’ because I was taking a break from teaching in order to travel. Now I reflect on the profession that I have temporarily left behind.

Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!

Asia, School, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas teaching, teaching overseas, TEFL, traveling, travelling, vietnam

Four years ago I was in an auditorium in Vietnam alongside my teaching colleagues and we were listening to a lecture that only served to strengthen my already iron-clad resolve to travel. I don’t think

Snow Days

Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, School, Swedish Climate, Teaching europe, school, snow, snow day, sweden, teaching

Anybody who has attended or worked in a school in the UK will know how exciting it is when the winter brings the first snow, not so much because we love snow but because of

Why English?

Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Working Overseas english language, teaching

Every year our organisation runs a competition in which the students write an essay in English about a given topic, last year's topic was Science based. This year, students were asked to explore the question

Fika Fridays – Swedish Cake Break!

Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Tradition sweden, teaching

Anybody who knows me will know that Fridays are my favourite day of the week. I love Fridays. Not because the weekend begins or even that I only work for 2 hours, but because Friday

Don’t Stop BIS-lieving!

Music, School, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas BIS vietnam, british international school vietnam, saigon, teaching, vietnam

This is my tribute to my friends at BIS, the school I worked in during my time in Vietnam. It's good to remember the fun times :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NULMiA9z8U

Lest We Forget – Remembering The Fallen

Childhood Memories, History, Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Tradition, United Kingdom conflict, flanders fields, macrae, oppression, poppies, remembrance, remembrance day, soldiers, sweden, teaching, uk, war

Poppy placed at 'Hellfire Pass', Thailand "Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them." Today is Remembrance Day: a

Fancy Dress Friday

Childhood Memories, Friends and Family, School, Teaching fancy dress, partying, school, sweden, teaching

Yesterday was the last day of an incredibly long half-term and what better way to celebrate than with a fancy dress day at school? The first time I used the phrase 'fancy dress' with Nicklas

One Hel’ of a Weekend – the staff social.

Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Travelling, Working Overseas ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, finland, helsinki, mui ne, partying, silja line, staff social weekends, teaching

In my opinion, one of the best things about teaching internationally is the sense of comraderie that develops amongst your work colleagues. This seems to be very different from the UK when everybody already has

The Tie that Binds.

Life in Sweden, Teaching education, school uniform, sweden, swedish education, teaching, uk

The new teacher orientation week at my new school went pretty much as expected. We were introduced to various policies, systems and schemes of work; and informed about the usual array of Special Educational Needs

Free Education

Life in Sweden, Teaching free schools, sweden, teaching

For the first time in a teaching career that spans almost a decade (eek!) I am about to enter an educational system that is not that of the UK. For the first time ever I

A Tribute to the Top Table

Teaching staff room, sweden, teaching

School staff rooms can be funny places. Remember those days when you were at school, walking past the staff room - that most sacred and hallowed sanctuary of the teachers - hearing a distant buzz

Back to School

Life in Sweden, School, Teaching back to school, sweden, teaching

The phrase that every teacher (and student) dreads the most is: Back to School. Probably because these 3 words are usually splashed across every shop window and inside every supermarket aisle about 2 days after