Category: Faculty

Welcome to China, THINK Global School! This week, we welcomed back our Grade 9 students for the third term in Beijing. All of the young minds made it safely from their travels around the world and are super excited to start classes with our host school, Beijing BISS International School. Check out the video montage of the students' arrival, shown above. Music by Pogo.

AS OUR STAFF AND FACULTY wait for the arrival of the ninth graders to begin Term 3 in Beijing, it's sometimes easy to feel overwhelmed by the logistics of our endeavor. It's no simple task moving a school around the planet, and we owe a debt of gratitude to our administrative team - especially Ashley Silver and Mike Hourahine - for making our international transitions so seamless. A school built...

  Our time in Sydney has come to a close So here's a video to tide you over until TGS touches down in Beijing for the third and final term of the school year.

Proud. Positive. Special. Those are some of the words TGS students use to describe their emotional response to the THINK photographic exhibit that accompanies the school on its world travels. In Sydney, the freestanding outdoor exhibit is currently drawing attention in Martin Place in the downtown business district. It features stunning international images captured by TGS founder Joann McPike on globally relevant themes such as beauty, despair, wisdom, wealth, curiosity...

For TGS students, preparing to live in Beijing for three months means more than learning a few basic phrases in Mandarin. Under the guidance of teacher Sherry Zhang, these world travelers are learning as much vocabulary as possible, and are practicing their conversational skills and pronunciation on a regular basis. In addition to their language skills, they will travel to China armed with an understanding of the history and culture...

At TGS, education doesn’t end on Friday afternoon, take a few days off, and pick up again on Monday morning. Weekends provide even more time for learning, adventure - and fun. Of course, students spend weekends relaxing, studying, and preparing for classes, but they also spend their Saturdays and Sundays playing football (soccer), rock climbing, taking in a film, and exploring our host city. A weekend visit to the Taronga...

This term, students are learning about the history of the Australian people: the accomplishments and the challenges, the positives and the “uncomfortable truths.” To continue their studies in this area, TGS students visited the Museum of Sydney. During their visit to the museum, they were exposed to a time when not all residents of Australia had the same rights. The Museum of Sydney exhibit, "From Little Things Big Things Grow,"...

One of the most important aspects of TGS's approach to education is providing students the opportunity to be immersed in a diverse array of international cultures. The modern aspects of people’s daily lives, their beliefs, customs, arts, and government are all give students a more complete picture of how people live all over the world. Another very important piece of this puzzle is understanding the history of a culture: where...

Traveling the globe and stepping into new and different the cultures is one of the ways that TGS students gain a true understanding of how people all over the world live, play, work and learn. In a way, theater arts gives people a similar opportunity to learn about someone else’s life by stepping into their shoes, even if only for an hour or two. While in Sydney, TGS students have...

TGS students are exploring Australia from all angles: standing at the foot of the great trees of the Illawarra Rainforest, descending into the depths of the Kelly Hill Caves, and even clambering over the Remarkable Rocks. And now, they are taking a look at the Australia’s sea floor. This underwater excursion is part of a hands-on scientific research experiment investigating the biology and environment of Australia, where the students themselves...