{"id":6104,"date":"2017-04-15T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:32:36","slug":"international-school-teacher-blogs-josefino-rivera-teacher-works-anglo-american-school-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/international-school-teacher-blogs-josefino-rivera-teacher-works-anglo-american-school-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"International School Teacher Blogs: “Josefino Rivera” (A teacher that works at Anglo American School of Sofia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you inspired to start-up a blog about your adventures living abroad and working at an international school?<\/p>\n

Our 47th blog that we would like to highlight is called “Josefino Rivera”<\/strong>\u00a0 Check out the blog entries of this\u00a0international school educator who works in\u00a0Bulgaria:
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A few entries that we would like to highlight:<\/p>\n

Moving to the\u00a0Balkans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis time, the butterflies in my stomach flapped gingerly. Perhaps it was the recondite Cyrillic which I struggle to understand. Perhaps it was the confused responses upon sharing the news of this job in stark contrast to other locations. Perhaps it was the skills I\u2019ve developed in finding home within myself and not necessarily a location.<\/p>\n

On the individual screen from my aisle seat, I watched The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife<\/em>, empathizing not with the intended wife, but with the time traveler himself: the false sense of control, the naked vulnerability in each travel, and the excitement that comes with such profound experiences\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

How interesting that this international school educator experienced a different reaction from his friends based on the location of the place he was moving to. There are a lot of misconceptions about certain locations and cultures in the world. These people typically haven’t even visited the location that you are moving to and they strangely still have such strong opinions about it!<\/em><\/p>\n

Related to arriving in your new city\/country, we have\u00a060 comments that have been submitted on this comment topic on our website: “Where did the school take you in the city when you first arrived? What were some staff outings\/party locations?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is one of them from\u00a0Qatar Academy (Sidra)<\/a>: “We did trips to the malls and Ikea to buy things. There was one staff lunch at the Rec Center before the whole staff joined but that was it. There are no xmas parties or anything like that. There was an iftar (meal at sunset during Ramadan) but it was in Education City and in the evening, which isn’t convenient for the staff who live outside Education City. There is a social club that tries to organize events for the staff-some drinking and non drinking events and events for families too.”<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the\u00a0Wolfpack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n

“Today, the new hires of 2016\u20132017 stepped foot on the campus of the Anglo-American School of Sofia, home of the wolves. The campus is located on the southeast outskirts of the capital of Bulgaria. It is nestled at the foot of the Vitosha mountains<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Before any new group of educators can work towards a common mission, we have to know each other because eventually we will rely on each other. In the field of education, we are not islands. I can teach a phenomenal course within my work day, but if, vertically, my colleague doesn\u2019t continue developing on the same skills in the next course, we haven\u2019t done our job well. Or if horizontally, I don\u2019t communicate with a student\u2019s other teachers to understand his low performance in my class or what makes her excited in another class, we haven\u2019t done our job well.<\/p>\n

Thus to break the ice, our head of school, Jim Urquhart, modeled a community building activity to help remember each other\u2019s names called \u201cAppellation Alliteration\u201d. We stood in a circle, each making an alliteration of our own first name with an alliterative adjective or phrase. In addition, we had to identify a movement that represented that phrase…\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

New teacher orientation is super important and definitely has\u00a0a lasting effect on the new teacher. We have a number of \u00a0articles (14) that have been submitted in our blog category called “New Teacher Orientation Must-Haves<\/a>“. \u00a0Here is a blurb from our latest one titled “A sit-down with an admin to go over each part of your contract”:<\/p>\n

“<\/em>Contract details can be easily overlooked. They are not overlooked\u00a0because you are not interested in them (because of course you want to know ALL the details when you are in the initial stages after being offered a contract), but because there are too many fine details to fully understand everything you see.<\/p>\n

Contracts can also be easily misunderstood. Maybe you already \u201cread\u201d the contract, but it would be safe to say that you would not completely understand everything you \u201cread\u201d. \u00a0International school teaching contracts definitely\u00a0contain parts that are using language you may not be familiar with. If it contains parts that are specific to the rules\/laws of the host country, then it is very possible that you might not be so familiar with that jargon in terms of\u00a0what a certain part is really trying to say…”<\/p>\n

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\nWant to work for an international school in Bulgaria<\/strong>\u00a0like this\u00a0blogger?\u00a0 Currently, we have 7<\/strong>\u00a0international school teachers that have listed that they currently live in this country. Check them out here<\/a>. We also have one member<\/a> that is from this country.<\/p>\n

* If you are an international school teacher and would like your blog highlighted on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>\u00a0contact us\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you inspired to start-up a blog about your adventures living abroad and working at an international school? Our 47th blog that we would like to highlight is called “Josefino Rivera”\u00a0 Check out the blog entries of this\u00a0international school educator who works in\u00a0Bulgaria: A few entries that we would like to highlight: Moving to the\u00a0Balkans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[1781,2324,2383,2384,751,2381],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-of-international-teachers","tag-anglo-american-school-of-sofia","tag-international-school-teacher-blogs","tag-international-schools-in-bulgaria","tag-new-teacher-orientation-must-haves","tag-teacher-blog","tag-teaching-in-bulgaria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screenshot-2017-04-15-11.47.31.png?fit=1280%2C293&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-1As","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7531,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/international-school-teacher-blogs-expat-heather-a-teacher-that-works-at\/","url_meta":{"origin":6104,"position":0},"title":"International School Teacher Blogs: “Expat Heather” (A teacher who works in South Korea)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"September 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you inspired to start-up a blog about your adventures living abroad and working at an international school? 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