January 7
We are excited to be kicking off our latest series – ISTA Alumni stories – which will be a monthly addition to Digital Scene beginning in February! Each month we’ll highlight a former ISTA student, sharing an article about them – where they...
January 7
What do you take for granted? If you’ve left home to teach overseas, what did you take for granted back home? Having left the United Kingdom (UK) eight years ago and having taught Theatre in Asia since, I’m realising now how much I took for...
January 7
This summer I was lucky enough to get back in the saddle of teaching English as a second/foreign language to teenagers and adults at East Sussex College. In my twenties I taught ESL and EFL in Turkey and Greece, running language schools over the...
January 7
A very enjoyable and indeed essential part of photography is the ability to tell a story with your photographs – this is especially true when working with ISTA. Festivals are set up with a whole narrative in mind and it’s my job to capture what...
November 29
The sun is high above us, whilst I work in a drama studio observing a girl whose disposition is less than sunny. It was October. I had a new group of year 7 students in front of me and was heartened to see that the ensemble were energised,...
November 29
‘GROW UP!’ Yep. I said it. I heard myself say it. Just like the characteristic ‘nose-in-the-air, pickle-in-the-butt’ adult I forever loathed throughout my youth, I spoke these two deflating words and it made me cringe like a sundried tomato....
November 29
Surely all education should have positive outcomes so what exactly is ‘positive education’? It is defined in a range of ways but essentially focuses on ways that we can use the science of positive psychology to help us to flourish. Historically...
November 29
As each year comes to a close we like to reflect on all the wonderful things that happen during that time and the changes and growth our ISTA community sees. In 2019 we welcomed many new members to our ISTA community across our different forms of...