Entries by Liz Hutchinson

God’s Rubric for Excellence

March 28, 2018 in /by

Excellence: Whatever we do, we do it wholeheartedly to the best of our ability and for the glory of God alone. (from TeachBeyond Identity Statements) Excellence – the last in the list of TeachBeyond core values – is a concept that conjures up a myriad of thoughts and emotions. Perhaps you have memories of basking […]

Featured Five

March 14, 2018 in /by

Here are five featured openings in our schools.†Click here†to see all available openings. Director William Carey Academy Chittagong, Bangladesh Work with a group of both national and expatriate teachers leading a school of 340 students as we seek to provide a quality education and spiritual truth to the community around us. Teacher Meagan Carns tells […]

Asking the Right Question

March 14, 2018 in /by

I was recently at a conference where I got to chatting with one of our TeachBeyond missionaries—R—who related a conversation about faith matters she’d just had with several of the grade 12 students at her school. The students would bring up an issue, and R would ask them a question about it. This happened again […]

Partnering with Others

March 1, 2018 in /by

Cooperative learning is widely recognised as valuable for students, but cooperative teaching isn’t so widely valued. It seems to be easier to visualise how working with others and sharing gifts and resources can benefit other people, but sometimes our personal habits of autonomy and independence can keep us, as teachers, from seeing the value of […]

Thinking in an “On Demand” world

January 24, 2018 in , /by

Our world is increasingly fast-paced. Everything around us, from drive-in restaurants to on-line media-streaming services, caters to our desire to have what we want right now. Even our phones, with their magic genies—Alexa, Siri, Cortana—answer our questions within moments. We live in an “on-demand” world. It is no wonder that in this context, our students […]

Making Sure Your Students Understand What You are Saying

January 10, 2018 in /by

One experience in my senior year of college shaped my teaching forever. I chose French 102 as an elective, because I’d always been fascinated by languages. A little self-study and my basic knowledge of Spanish got me through the placement test into the second semester, even though I’d never officially studied French. Although I still […]

Culturally Relevant Transformational Education

January 3, 2018 in , /by

This year we have been examining TeachBeyond’s core values as they relate to our mission of Transformational Education. This month we’ve come to the value of cultural relevance and I [Becky] have asked a team working in a culture that is “pretty much as far as you can get from the TeachBeyond offices and from […]

Expectations Matter

December 13, 2017 in , /by

“What is the matter with you? I’ve explained this three different ways. Why are you still having trouble getting it? Maybe maths just isn’t for you,” my teacher exhaled exasperatedly as I sat, head in hands, attempting to understand a basic trig lesson. It has been about seventeen years, and I still remember the sting […]