We are fortunate to have another guest blog post this week! Gaby from this year’s IEDP cohort is here to share her experiences and thoughts on wellness at Penn. If you have kept up with our blog posts, you probably have heard a lot about how grad school and IEDP can be challenging and all that. But fear not — at IEDP, one will always … Continue reading Guest Post: Self-Care at Penn
For this past semester, I have had the pleasure of continuing my internship with Save the Children’s education research department. One of the highlights of this was my September visit to Save’s Washington DC office. During this visit, I met with members of the education research team that I had met during a call early in my internship when I visited the director of the … Continue reading An update on my time with Save the Children
This week, we have a guest post from one of this year’s IEDPers, Suhina! Ever wondered what it must be like to start gradschool when you have a family who’s moving with you to a new city? What is IEDP experience like for a wife/husband/father/mother? Does it ever get overwhelming? How do you manage that? In this post, Suhina shares her own experience of balancing … Continue reading Guest Post: Om in the Home
For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, hope you had a great Thanksgiving week! Wondering how IEDPers — a super eclectic bunch! — spent Thanksgiving? For some of us, it was the very first Thanksgiving we celebrated in our life! For some others, it was the first Thanksgiving away from home. Every year, the IEDP students work together for a few weeks prior to the Thanksgiving week … Continue reading All the Things We Are Thankful For!
As it is approaching the end of the year, everyone becomes busier. There are a bunch of on-going projects that needed to be reflected on, and making plans for the future steps. In the education sector, our schedule is packed with conferences and speeches in and out of China. I escorted my supervisor, who is the education programme specialist, Robert Parua to attend two on-site … Continue reading Halfway Melody
There would be no better way to end this series than with Lauren’s words (who, by the way, was mentioned multiple times throughout the series!) on tips for prospective students. Lauren is the Program Coordinator of IEDP, and she is the person that you’ll likely consult the most both during your application cycle. She has been with the program for six years and seen everything, … Continue reading Journey to IEDP 1.6: Epilogue
I can’t believe my 5ish-months internship at UNESCO section for Teacher Development/International Teacher Taskforce for Education 2030 has come to an end. My last assignment was to provide support to the Secretariat of the Teacher Taskforce during the 11th Policy Dialogue Forum which took place just last week in Jamaica. Getting to see our work come to fruition during the Forum was one of the … Continue reading Wagwan educators?
Journey to IEDP series: Here we are again in November, continuing our series from October on our cohort’s distinct experiences that brought us to IEDP. Many of you reading this blog probably have myriad of questions: “should I go to graduate school?” “if so, which program should I apply to?” “how would my experience fit in IEDP?” “why would I want to be in IEDP” … Continue reading Journey to IEDP 1.5: Unpaved Road? Not a Problem!
For the last three months, I have been interning with Geneva Global in Uganda and Ethiopia. I had known three months would go by in a flash, and yet, I am still surprised – it simultaneously feels like I just got here and like I have been here for a very long time. This was my first time on the African continent, and it was … Continue reading Farewells and reflections
Journey to IEDP series: Here we are again in November, continuing our series from October on our cohort’s distinct experiences that brought us to IEDP. Many of you reading this blog probably have myriad of questions: “should I go to graduate school?” “if so, which program should I apply to?” “how would my experience fit in IEDP?” “why would I want to be in IEDP” … Continue reading Journey to IEDP 1.4: Way of Giving Back
The International Educational Development Program 