How International Trips Innovate Careers in Education
The digital transformation in today’s education continues to push teachers to innovate their classrooms, and those virtual skills will need to eventually be mastered in person. As teachers build more online experiences for students, they also have an opportunity to take the right steps in a new direction that will prepare students to go abroad and embrace the future of a globalizing world.
The students and teachers who prepare and prep for those experiences now will put themselves in a better place to innovate their respective futures. Read on to learn how teachers at the middle school and high school level now have an opportunity to use virtual tools to build skills, enhance their classroom and create an immersive learning experience for their students.
TAKE YOUR SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Like a class curriculum, a short term study abroad program takes a lot of planning that can be overwhelming if it’s not structured. Organization and time management skills are absolutely vital for your position and are important traits for your professional profile. Through planning school trips, you can make your institution stand out with an international program!
Ordinary school trips are common - almost two-thirds of domestic educational trips stay either in the same state as the school or within 50 miles in the area - but an international program stands out. It shows an important innovation to keep up with an increasingly global society that spans far beyond the classroom!
ENHANCE YOUR CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
The students and teachers love experiencing the world through our custom programs because they extend the learning objectives and the school’s mission beyond the classroom! The core behind a truly meaningful international program comes from connecting students with communities around the world.
Travel makes education last: from a survey of 400 adults who took educational trips between ages 12 and 18, over 300 said that their experience with travel made them more interested in what they were learning in school. This data comes from secondary education school trips staying in the country; imagine how much more interested students can become in your class material after an educational adventure in a foreign country!
You can also liven up your existing class material with pictures from class trips abroad! You might just inspire more students to learn more through their own travels!
Our passion comes from our desire to bring learning to life is our passion! For us, the best way to bring education to life is through traveling. The students and teachers we work with love experiencing the world through our custom, short-term study abroad programs.
IMMERSIVE LEARNING
Add a new, unforgettable element as enrichment to your school’s curriculum. There is so much students can learn from a trip abroad beyond the culture and history of a place. Students can also gain new perspectives that they can use to think outside of the box.
Immersive trips abroad can also inspire students to write engaging, one-of-a-kind stories for their college applications! Colleges are always looking for openness and eagerness in their prospective students. It takes a great teacher to bring out the best in students, and you can play a role in bringing your students’ successes and your school’s standing to a higher level!
THE JOURNEY AWAITS
Taking your students abroad is more than a field trip - it is a new combination of experiences that can improve the futures of your students, your school, and your own! It challenges what they know to be true, their beliefs of the world and it inspires them to want to learn more.
In a short period of time, you can develop advanced planning and management skills to add something special to your curriculum and to your professional development, but you can also affect the lives of young people behind your classes and extracurricular activities at school. There are obstacles that all students face when considering going abroad, and our role will be to provide you the tools to support students so those barriers become solvable challenges, and we’re here to help support that!
Take your students and your school beyond their boundaries and boost your career with new fun skills at the same time!
Want to gain more perspective on ways to how you can make bring international experiences onto your campus? To learn more, check out our feature on two-time program alumni and former Spanish teacher Greg Semplice in how Teachers Can Bring The World Into The Classroom and see he used his time abroad to provide him inspiration to support his school community!
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