Skip to content

The Laos Experience 🇱🇦🇩🇪

Bi-directional Learning and Teaching: Lao-German Projects and Tandems

  • Project
    • Project phases
      • 1.1. First Project Phase: “Teaching English in Laos” (2015-2018)
      • 1.2. Second Project Phase: “Bi-directional teaching and learning” (2018-2021)
      • 1.3. Third Project Phase: “Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship” (2020-2023)
      • 1.4. Fourth Project Phase: “Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality”
      • Funding
    • The Project leaders
      • Contact
    • Formal cooperations
    • Internships
      • Final reports of volunteers
    • Coming up
    • Timeline
    • Press releases
    • Thanks
  • Partners
    • Ban Sikeud primary school
    • Ban Phang Heng primary school
    • Ban Phang Heng lower secondary school
    • Lao-German Technical College
  • Teams
    • Teacher tandems
    • Team XVI
    • Team XV
    • Team XIV
    • Team XIII (The Cameroon Experience)
    • Team XII
    • Team XI (May 2021 – June 2021)
    • Team X (6 February – 18 March 2020)
    • Team IX (15 October 2019 – 15 January 2020)
    • Team VIII (19 February 2019 – 5 July 2019)
    • Team VII (18 September 2018 – 22 February 2019)
    • Team VI (18 February 2018 – 15 April 2018)
    • Team V (18 September 2017 – 15 February 2018)
    • Team IV (14 February – 10 April 2017)
    • Team III (15 September 2016 – 15 February 2017)
    • Team II (15 February – 31 March 2016)
    • Team I (27 October 2015 – 7 January 2016)
  • Blog
    • All posts since October 2015
    • Categories
    • Tag list
    • Videos
    • Newsletter
    • Disclaimer
  • Primary education
    • Ban Sikeud primary school
      • Primary school English teachers
    • Ban Phang Heng primary school
      • Primary school English teachers
    • Sunshine School
  • Secondary education
    • Ban Phang Heng lower secondary school
      • Secondary school English teachers
      • Secondary school science teachers
      • Secondary school mathematics teachers
      • Learners of English
  • Vocational education
    • Lao-German Technical College Vientiane
      • Vocational school English teachers
      • Location
      • Recruitment and Training Programme
  • Higher education
    • Savannakhet University
      • Savannakhet University lecturers
    • Vocational Education Development Institute
  • Research
    • Overview
    • Full-texts
    • Literature

Merry Christmas!

Posted on 23/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Intercultural Activities, Laos
Christmas, Laos

Merry Christmas to all our friends, families and supporters all over the world. In the name of Angels for Children

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Mission: VISA run, once more

Posted on 23/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Traveling in Laos
Laos

Today it was back and forth again and we successfully renewed our VISA. Every 30 days we have to cross

Continue reading
Leave a comment

First farewell

Posted on 23/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Germany, Laos, Teams
Christmas, Lao New Year, Laos

Unfortunately, Julia, Sandro, Ann-Kathrin, and Steffi had to head back to Germany this week – their time was up. Before

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Square Dance with Lao pupils at the Ban Phang Heng Secondary School 17/12/2015

Posted on 20/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Cultural learning, Workshops
Ban Phang Heng Secondary School, Square Dance, Total Physical Response (TPR)

During my last week in Laos I got the great opportunity to try out Square Dance with the pupils of

Continue reading
Leave a comment

2. Falang-Friendship-Feast – farewell party for “most of us”

Posted on 19/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Intercultural Activities, Laos
Ban Phang Heng Secondary School, emotions, Falang, friendship, Lao food, Lao-German friendship feast, Laos, Western food

We almost cannot believe how time flew by so fast. Last week, it was already time for four of us

Continue reading
Leave a comment

A somewhat different Christmas choir

Posted on 17/12/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Teams
Christmas, Laos, singing

Yesterday, on the 16th of December, we (the German volunteers) reaped the fruits of weeks’ of hard work. Since the

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Smiling faces

Posted on 30/11/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Teaching experiences
happiness, Laos, smile

No need to explain why we´re doing this! Smiling faces in the schools in Ban Sikeud and Ban Phang Heng

Continue reading
Leave a comment

First VISA run

Posted on 26/11/201520/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Traveling in Laos
Buddhism

In Laos, our VISAs expire every 30 days. Therefore, we soon needed to take a trip to the Thai/Lao border.

Continue reading
Leave a comment

1. Falang-Friendship-Feast

Posted on 22/11/201524/02/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Cultural learning, Germany, Intercultural Activities, Laos
Asian food, Ban Phang Heng Secondary School, Falang, friendly welcome, friendship, Lao food, Lao-German friendship feast, Laos, Western food

On Saturday, the 21st of November, more than 20 Lao and English teachers gathered at Ban Phang Heng Secondary School

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Field trip to the University of Laos, Vientiane

Posted on 20/11/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, English, Laos, Teaching experiences
Asian food, Laos, Ministry of Education and Sports, National University of Laos (NUOL), Western food

Last Wednesday, we went to the English Department of the University of Laos to join their weekly „English Zone“, a

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Mopsy and his friends

Posted on 14/11/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Teaching experiences
"Mopsy", Ban Sikeud Primary School, body language, emotions, handpuppet, language learning, Laos, preschool

We, Franziska and Tobias, recently started working with English for Mopsy and me in the two preschool classes of Ban

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Some early impressions

Posted on 04/11/201526/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Dancing, Didactics & Methodology, Laos, Teaching experiences, Workshops
"Mopsy", "Singlish", activities, Laos, singing, Total Physical Response (TPR)

Throughout the next days after our arrival, our schedule was packed. First, we visited all three schools supported by the

Continue reading
Leave a comment

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 32 33 34 35 Next Posts»

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,892 other subscribers.

Coming up

  • Sun
    01
    Mar
    2026
    Mon
    31
    Aug
    2026

    3 Lao exchange students at PHKA in the summer term 2026

    University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    3 students of Savannakhet University (Lao P.D.R.) study at the University of Education Karlsruhe in the summer term 2026 under the last leg of our 3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University. 2 are Informatics students, 1 is an English student: we welcome Ms Kaemmy Sithivong!

  • Sun
    01
    Mar
    2026
    Mon
    31
    Aug
    2026

    3 exchange students from Ghana and Cameroon at PHKA in the summer term 2026

    University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    1 student of the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) and 2 students of the University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon) study at the University of Education Karlsruhe in the summer term 2026 under the DAAD programme  (2025-2029) "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" We welcome Mr Emmanuel Agyapong (English), Ms Adeg Nelvis Kissob (English), and Mr Noel Chick Forbang (Curriculum & Evaluation)!

show events page

Current development

  • Tue
    01
    Aug
    2023
    Fri
    31
    Jul
    2026

    3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University

    Karlsruhe (Germany) & Savannakhet (Lao P.D.R.)

    Erasmus+ Key Action 171 Mobility Project between the University of Education Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University (budget 62.470,00 Euro): After our first two mobility projects, "Bi-directional Teaching and Learning" (2018-2021) and "Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship" (2021-2023), we now embark on "Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality" for 3 years (2023-2026).

  • Wed
    01
    Oct
    2025
    Mon
    31
    Dec
    2029

    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" at PH Karlsruhe (2025-2029)

    8:00 - 18:00Karlsruhe (Germany)

    With the new Get Ready for Global Teaching! project at PH Karlsruhe, we institutionalize and expand our international collaborations. With our partners in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Lao P.D.R., Norway, the UK and the USA, we will focus on global inequality, colonial thought patterns, and post-migrant societies. Through direct exchange, future teachers will further develop their cultural and linguistic awareness, reflect on key issues and challenges of our time from a global perspective, and design educational processes in diversity- and discrimination-sensitive ways.

show events page

Tag Cloud

"Mopsy" "Singlish" activities Activity Time Asian food Ban Phang Heng Primary School Ban Phang Heng Secondary School Ban Sikeud Primary School body language Buddhism Diplomatic Relations emotions Erasmus+ Mobility Programme PH Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University festival friendship happiness Hilderstone interviews journey language learning Lao culture Lao food Lao teachers' essays Lao-German cooperation Lao-German friendship feast Lao-German Technical College (LGTC) Laos Lending Library letters from England letters from Laos literature Ministry of Education and Sports personal highlight Science laboratory singing smile Square Dance Sunshine School (Vientiane) teacher interviews teaching English in Laos teaching the teachers Total Physical Response (TPR) Vientiane Vocational Education Development Institute (VEDI) Western food
  • "Decolonise Your Mind"
  • "Language Learning & Global Citizenship"
  • "The Cameroon Experience"
  • "The Ghana Experience"
  • "The Laos Experience"
  • (Critical) Language Awareness
  • All Posts
  • ASA Academia global format project
  • Conference
  • Cultural learning
  • Cultural theories
  • Curriculum
  • DAAD Get Ready for Global Teaching
  • Dancing
  • Decoloniality
  • Didactics & Methodology
  • English
  • First impressions
  • Germany
  • Global Englishes
  • Higher education
  • History
  • Intercultural Activities
  • Internships
  • Laos
  • Letters
  • Partnership
  • Personal highlight
  • Picturebooks
  • Postcolonial theories
  • Primary education
  • Research
  • Savannakhet University (SKU)
  • School life
  • Secondary education
  • Special event
  • Teacher education
  • Teacher interviews
  • Teacher tandems
  • Teaching experiences
  • Teams
  • Textbooks
  • The Lao students
  • The Lao teachers
  • Transportation
  • Traveling
  • Traveling in Europe
  • Traveling in Laos
  • Volunteers
  • Workshops

© Isabel Martin & Contributing Collaborative (2024)

Disclaimer
Imprint

WordPress Theme: Donovan by ThemeZee.
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.