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A Teacher Work-Life Balance: Managing Expectations and Maximizing Time

The post explores misconceptions about teachers’ workload and underscores the challenges in achieving work-life balance amidst planning, grading, and communicating outside of contractual hours. It shares personal journeys towards improved work-life balance through strategies like setting boundaries, efficient time management, and technological separation. Suggestions include not bringing work home, selective grading, targeted feedback, using time-blocking techniques, separating work emails and devices from personal ones, and having accountability partners. The authors emphasize these approaches are flexible and not always foolproof in the demanding teaching profession.

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Why Teach Internationally? Reasons You Should Think About Teaching Overseas

Why teach internationally? If you’ve ever taught in the US or generally read about the state of education in the US (the UK isn’t much better, I gather), then you might understand where this post is coming from. We’re here to tell you why you should think about teaching internationally. As a teaching couple who’s

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The New Digs – An International Teaching Apartment in Shanghai

If you’re interested in teaching abroad, this post can help to give you an idea of what an international teaching apartment might look like. This was technically our 2nd apartment in Shanghai, but the first we were able to find and choose on our own. Keep in mind this was in 2014! Technically this update

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