Class of 2014 student Yada P. reports on a lecture event with Tony Wagner, a renowned educator focused on transforming education for the 21st century. Yada describes his visiting presence at THINK Global School in Thailand and points from the presentation, found below for viewing and download. WE HAD SEEN HIM in the back of the class, walking around, watching us. With a shock of peppered white hair and a...
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It might be difficult for others to really gauge what it’s like to be 'on the ground' with THINK Global School. Through these interviews with the traveling members of faculty and staff, it becomes evident what has drawn this unique group of people together at the world's only global, mobile high school. These 12 individuals, representing 6 countries, speak about what the blend of travel and education means...
Read MoreGrade 9 student Isaac F. spent his winter break transforming his photographic content from Ecuador into powerful graphics with a voice and a mission. This initiative is not uncharacteristic of this young man who created a t-shirt design company at the age of 11. Here are excerpts and images from his blog, Inner Monologues. Although I’ve had a great life so far, I felt like a part of me is...
Read MoreBEFORE THE START OF CLASSES in Chiang Mai, the students got an introduction to the language, customs, culture, arts, and food of Thailand. This term's host school - Traidhos Three Generations - conducted classes on Thai conversational basics and customs, to enable the students with a better awareness of their new surrounding culture. They teamed up into groups to role play do's and don'ts around town, including appropriate clothing in...
Read MoreAs an end-of-term trip, TGS went to give something back to the country that had given us so much. High up in the highlands of Ecuador, in a tiny province named Chimborazo, a Canadian charity NGO has set itself a goal. Its main goal is to free children from oppression. In the West, that means empowering children to take on the responsibility to change the world. However, in developing countries...
Read MoreFrom 14 different countries they came, an army of curious teenage minds unleashed in a place only 700 people visit each year. 24 sets of student legs walked alongside spiders, monkeys, and birds in their rubber boots. They squelched their way into a world of knowledge, into a new way of thinking and into a new passion for nature. This is the tale of what happened when THINK Global School...
Read MoreTHINK Global School went on a two-week journey to the Galapagos Islands. With the majority of our classes taking place outside, we wrote Chinese characters in the sand, practiced our Spanish, learned about the effects of tourism on the Galapagos Islands in Global Studies, and finished up our probability unit in Math. In English Literature class, we started an introduction to our magical realism unit. Let’s not forget what we...
Read MoreWhat is a science class in a traveling high school like? This term, the students of THINK Global School are taking biology. For our first term, we are in Ecuador - the country which has both a part of the Amazon and the well-known Galapagos Islands. Jarrett Voytilla, our science teacher, talks about what science class is like in TGS. “Working in TGS has given me incredible chances,” says Voytilla....
Read MoreIn your journey to get where you are going, never forget to be right where you are. Our theme this year at TGS is Evolution to Revolution. We want our children to learn where we came from and how we got to where we are now. Who it was that had the ideas, the courage, and the determination to change their own world, and therefore ours. We want them to...
Read MoreChange is inevitable and finding consistency within the change is one goal of the Residential Life Team. There are many elements of THINK Global School that change frequently. Residential Life is one of them. In one term the residence can be a hotel in the middle of a city and in another it can be a dormitory at a boarding school in the countryside. Meals can also fluctuate; sometimes there...
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