Category: Faculty

RECENTLY, TGS RECEIVED AN UPDATE from Me to We Ecuador program manager Iain Duncan regarding the projects started this December. It's a pleasure to stay connected with these partnerships created across the world. I’m happy to hear that the students of THINK Global are still thinking about their time in Ecuador. The community of San Miguel is doing well and is planning the next major phase of construction in March....

TGS and PTIS students worked together on their first mathematics integrated project with a host school. Students built catapults and worked in groups to determine the quadratic function that modelled the trajectory of their M&Ms. They then used this quadratic function to determine how far away their catapults needed to be placed from a target in order to hit the target. Overall, it was a very exciting math activity that...

  Tony Wagner, Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University, speaks to THINK Global School and Traidhos Three Generation Community for Learning about his newest book, Creating Innovators. Students and faculty engage in a dialogue with this renowned educational consultant on technology, skills, and preparing learners for the 21st century.

One of the challenges that a boarding school faces is maintaining connectivity between parents and students while they are away. TGS combats this dilemma by using THINK Spot, our unique learning and collaboration platform, and having a ResLIFE team that engages the entire TGS community. Director of ResLIFE Yosefa Gilon describes the a recent trip to the parents on Spot. Dear Parents, AS I WRITE THIS EMAIL, my skin is...

THE ELEPHANT NATURE PARK (ENP) is responsible for the care of 36 elephants: 32 females and 4 males. Every elephant that lives at the park has been rescued from a dire situation. These elephants are often taken away from their mothers at too young of an age and 'broken' during a brutal ritual known as Phajaan. These rituals last anywhere from three to seven days, depending on the willpower of...

TGS SPENT A WEEKEND up in the mountains of rural northern Thailand, assisting a hill tribe village in creating a space for their young children attending school. We were tasked with 3 projects on the school property during our 2.5 day stay. Project #1: Fish Pond/Cement Slab Students worked together to dig a large enough hole to create a fish pond that will help to promote sustainability within the community,...

ONE OF THE MANY POSITIVES that arise from spending time in a new country is the relationship that our students and faculty develop at the host school. While in Cuenca, we had the chance to bond with the Colegio Aleman Stiehle Cuenca community. We were delighted to recently receive the following email from Agi Orosz, a CASC staff member, reinforcing the belief that the benefits of pairing with a host...

  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...

BEFORE 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...

From 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...