GEEO Education Program for summer 2009

Teachers who participate in GEEO's program are expected to share their experience with their students. This is a several step process detailed below.

Pre-departure

1. Teachers, once having signed on for a GEEO program, submit a brief action plan for bringing their GEEO experience into the classroom.
2. Teachers learn about the country they will travel to through short, one page readings that GEEO emails to them prior to departure over the course of several weeks.

During the program

1. While abroad on the GEEO program, teachers discuss their action plans with other group participants. Hopefully new ideas will be shared, enriching the action plans.
2. Teachers have the opportunity to make connections with schools they visit for possible pen-pals/online classroom collaboration.

After Traveling, in the classroom, fall semester

1. Teachers will make a 10 minute power-point presentation to all of their classes that describe the trip they have taken. GEEO will send each teacher a basic presentation and then the teacher can customize the presentation to fit their personal experience, as well as making it appropriate for their students' age and the subject matter being taught.
2. Teachers will (try, technically permitting) make a 10 minute Google Earth presentation to all of their students that shows geographically where they have been. GEEO will send each teacher a ready to use presentation.
3. Teachers will put together a display somewhere on their classroom walls or corkboard that will include photos from the trip and a regularly-updated chart or list of current events from that country or region.
4. Teachers will follow their pre-trip action plan and incorporate their experience abroad somehow into their curriculum.                                                                
5. Teacher will submit documentation of these activities to GEEO. This should include examples of student's responses to the Power Point/Google Earth presentations, examples of student work and any photos that document in classroom activities.

Please contact GEEO with questions about the current classroom framework or with suggestions for alternate activities.