My teaching was a bit more interactive than the traditional Turkish teachers'. I'd ask students to act out what vocabulary they were learning. Here was a day's lesson on prepositions. Most of my orta okul (middle school) students were from villages...
My grade 10 kids at the high school corresponded with a school in Texas. Our kids were very excited to receive their letters and a picture of their pen-pals. The letters were originally written in October, so after reading the letters, I had to...
I taught second year in Oman at Arrahma School of Nursing in Muttrah, Oman. This photo of mixed class young men and women together. I taught English and basic math.
The students are standing in front of their recently completed construction of a chicken barn. The barn is built of local materials, primarily split bamboo and palm tree leaves for roofing.
This photo was taken in May at the end of the 1970 school year in Kangavar, Iran. Volunteer Harvey Landress is piuctured with his 9th-12th grade English students.
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Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps opportunities for teachers. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from the early 1960s.
10/23/09. Photo exhibition and piano concert to celebrate 10 year anniversary of "Roma Desegregation of Education in Central and Eastern Europe Project." Students read poetry and shared information during the piano concert. Vidin, Bulgaria -...
This photo was taken with my 5th grade class at Avkcenti Veleshki Grammar school in Samokov, Bulgaria. We were having a lesson on American holidays and celebrating Halloween by making masks. Photograph was taken on Tuesday, October 31st, 2000.
I took this photo on April 22, 2001 to share Earth Day with my 5th grade students in Samokov, Bulgaria. I wanted to show the students how to be good stewards to the earth and how to replenish resources that are often destroyed in their mountain...
This photo was taken during the summer of 1991, shortly before I finished my work in Mali as a teacher trainer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, or l'ENSUP, in Bamako, Mali. These were the greatest students...they had survived a coup d'etat, in...
This is a picture of my brother, Cyrus, on his visit to me in Northern Ghana in 2007. The photo was taken at Dipale Primary School in the village of Dipale, just north of Tamale, the Northern Regional Capital of Ghana. The students had just...