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5 Tips for First Time Group Leaders
As I’m currently planning my eighth international student tour, I’ve decided to draw from my experience and share a few quick tips for first time group leaders. 1) Educate yourself: Before you even hold your first recruitment meeting, you should do a lot of homework in order to be sure you fully understand the ins and Read more…
Why It’s So Worth it to Lead a Student Trip Abroad
Lillie Marshall (@WorldLillie on Twitter) is a teacher in the Boston Public Schools. In February of 2012 she traveled to Beijing with 42 Boston students through EF Tours. Lillie runs two travel and education websites, AroundTheWorldL.com and TeachingTraveling.com, along with the Education Bloggers group and chat. “Why should I spend my February Vacation with students?” Read more…
Familiar Faces Around the World
As a veteran EF group leader, I am sure to run into people I have met on past tours when I return to the same travel destinations. Believe it or not, I have also run into people from my small town while traveling abroad. In 1989, when my students and I were staying at a Read more…
A Travel Interview With Paul Morin
I am returning to a favorite travel survey this week, taken from the UK’s Independent newspaper. Paul Morin has worked in the EF Boston office for nine years as well as being the international model for some fine lines of headwear. He is currently the Sales Director for North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Much Read more…
Group Leader Questions from EF’s International Training Tour – Part 2
Click here if you missed Part 1 During my time on EF’s free international training tour, it was a privilege to work with the EF staff from Boston, Denver, and Lucerne, and to meet the new group leaders who all had such interesting teaching and travel experiences. We were so fortunate to have Atto Suttarp Read more…
Group Leader Questions from EF’s Free International Training Tour
Just because you have years of teaching under your belt does not mean you know what you are doing in the classroom. I can remember a science teacher at my school who had taught for many years. She may have known her subject area, but she did not know much about classroom management and discipline. Read more…
Top Tour Stops In Berlin, Germany
I am excited about the opportunity to go to Berlin next week as one of the “experienced group leaders” at the International Training Tour that will be held there. As a high school history teacher, I am very much aware of anniversaries of important events. August 13, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the building Read more…
EF Professional Development Tour – China
Top teachers embark on EF Professional Development Tour More than two dozen of America’s best teachers are kicking off their summer in grand fashion—with an EF Professional Development Tour to China. This week, 26 recipients of the 2011 NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence touched down in Beijing to begin their 10-day educational and cultural Read more…
Paella Recipe From Pam Farmer
I recently did a London to Edinburgh tour with Pam Farmer, a Group Leader from Rhode Island. Pam and I first met in Paris in 2010 at a Paris Training Tour, Pam does a lot of these as an experienced Group Leader and experienced she certainly is, having travelled with EF for 29 years. Anyway, Read more…
Teacher Appreciation Week 2011 – Winner!
A few weeks and more than 2,000 nominations ago, EF Educational Tours and Smithsonian Student Travel announced our first-ever Teacher Appreciation Week contest. And today, we are pleased to announce that the winner—who will receive a free professional development trip to China—is… Diane Otness Mrs. Otness teaches special education at Dutton/Brady Public School in Dutton, Montana. Read more…
