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Indonesian Girls Leading Our World – iGLOW Camp 2013
My decreased blogging has not been in vain. Over the past three months, five other volunteers near my area and I have been working incredibly hard to organize a leadership camp for 10th and 11th grade...
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Teacher Problems, #9
Back in the day, teachers may have received apples from students. In Indonesia, entire classes of students celebrate certain events (such as getting through reciting the entire Al Qur’an) by giving all...
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Teacher Problems, #10
I’m SO tempted to teach this to my students. Teacher Problem: As a teacher one often has the power to teach impressionable kids anything – especially if it’s a foreign language. Alas, with great power...
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Educating Boys and Empowering Women
In light of some other incidents that have happened this week with PCV female friends*, I took the following pretty hard. Today was the last day of teaching in one of my favorite classes. This class is...
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Teacher Problems, #12
One of my favorite students and good friend from MAN Bondowoso on her graduation day. Congratulations, Indah!Teacher Problem: Awesome students graduating or moving up grades and leaving your activities...
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The Challenges of Teaching English in Indonesia
The other day my counterpart, Pak Warai, sat next to me as I prepared material for English club. Suddenly he asks, Mel, what can we do to make students study outside the classroom? Pak, I laughed, if...
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