With our Vietnam term now roughly halfway complete, we have a significant piece of news to share: Beginning this July, Jen Buchanan will officially take over as Principal for THINK Global School. A Bit of Background on Jen A native of Australia and an avid traveler, Jen joins us from her current role as Head of Tay Creggan at Strathcona Girls Grammar School in Melbourne. Prior to this role, she...
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TGS Launches Its First Professional Development Initiative: THINK Learning Studio
The THINK Global School Leadership Team is delighted to announce the July 2022 launch of the THINK Learning Studio, a global innovation, consulting, and professional training center focused on interdisciplinary real-world learning. The launch of this initiative is a statement from both the Board and Leadership Team of TGS's commitment to spreading the methodology of the Changemakers® Program and our continued faith in the project-based learning format. The Studio team hopes...
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What it's like to be a CM1 Student When Ava Ploeckelman explains her high school experience, it will sound quite different from most teenagers. She will have the friendships, the adventures, and the occasional teenage heartache. But Ava experienced it all as a student at Think Global School, an educational program that uses world travel as the classroom.
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The World as Your Classroom We are accustomed to classroom learning system, with its constant homework, test them on a daily activities. But in the world there are many other interesting approaches to learning. Maybe we should learn something from them.
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Unlimited Potential If we imagined the world to be a classroom; one without walls of course, what would our syllabus be? What would our lesson plans look like? Most importantly, how different would the graduating students be? The possibilities are so infinite, the thought itself is overwhelming! It is these possibilities that THINK Global School tries to explore in a unique educational philosophy.
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A growing number of schools deserve recognition and celebration for thinking outside of the box and teaching students in ways to better equip them for entering the workplace and innovating within it – and dealing with life in general. Here are 14 of the most innovative schools in the U.S. right now.
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THINK Global School, the world’s first traveling high school, is pleased to announce some important logistical changes for the upcoming 2019-20 school year. These adjustments are expected to dramatically improve the school’s overall student experience while staying true to its unique approach to global education. “The travel aspect of our program requires us to be fluid in our decision making. These logistical shifts are based on extensive research and our...
Read MoreLast week, THINK Global School (TGS) students once again began arriving in a new country for the start of the school year, the ninth such time since TGS opened its doors in 2010 and began offering open-minded teens an education based in the world, not the classroom. For the first time since THINK Global School’s inception, however, students weren’t all flying to the same location. That’s because this summer marked...
Read More広島のとあるカフェに、最近さまざまな国の高校生がやって来ては、PCを持ち込んで勉強している姿が…。聞けば、彼らは常にさまざまな国を移動しながら、学んでいると言います。2017年度はボツワナ、インドを経て、現在約2カ月の予定で日本(広島)に拠点を置く学校は、その名も、「」。約40カ国45人の生徒たちが、参加しています。彼らは、何をどんな風に学んでいるのでしょう? 広島に滞在中のジェイミー・ステッカート校長に、お話を伺いました。
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For the budding photographers among our ranks, our From Zero to Infinity project-based learning module provided the perfect opportunity to hone their skills in a country that’s always ready for its closeup. Students were tasked with answering the question “How can we use photography to visualize math?” by producing a photo exhibition that visually depicts a selection of the mathematical innovations of India, from zero to infinity; from handicrafts to...
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