by Sean | Apr 12, 2016 | Fulbright, Learning, Pschyology, Teaching English
Do you ever notice that when you’re with your friends or family that you change the way you speak? You might have a shared language or gestures that you only break out around them. You end up matching the patterns of the people you’re around, and it puts...
by Sean | Jul 14, 2013 | Business, Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Travel
I received a lot of questions about the Fulbright when I decided to take the grant, many friends and family wanted to know what this would do for me, how would it help you I couldn’t answer those questions when I took the grant, but after months of living in Sri...
by Sean | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves…” -Seth Godin “Thank goodness I never went to school. It would have rubbed off some of the originality” -Beatrix Potter These quotes greeted my business...
by Sean | May 15, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
I’m not TEFL, TOEFL, or CELTA certified. My only qualification as an English teacher are that I have a Bachelor’s degree (in finance) and I speak English. As a Fulbrighter the State Department gave me two days of English teaching training before sending me...
by Sean | May 2, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
Learning Colours by Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe I hear the maid tell my daughter, three years old and just able to make out red from pink and even blue from purple, as they sit on the verandah avoiding the glare of our tropical sun, that she is fair. If it had been...
by Sean | Mar 20, 2013 | Fulbright, Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Travel
On Friday, March 15th the Fulbright Commission held a mid-phase review. All of the English Teaching Assistants, Student Researchers, and Senior Scholars gathered together at the Fulbright Commission’s villa offices in Colombo for a day of presentations. This...