Information for Teachers
The LearnServe Trips Program
Teaching on LSZ '08
By traveling to Paraguay or Zambia, teachers with 2-3 of their students come together with student-teacher teams from DC area public and private schools and work directly with NGOs in developing countries to create local solutions to global problems such as poverty, HIV/AIDs, or education. As teams engage with locals and their culture and grapple with the problems they face, they begin to understand important facts about the world in a way that only first-hand knowledge can impart. When they return, they bring what they have learned to their schools to engage and focus their school’s mission to become more internationally mindful and involved.
Teachers participating in LearnServe Trips come away inspired and invigorated. Their experiences transform them into global educators by expanding their thinking about how to engage young people and their skill at bringing the world into the classroom.
What a great experience this would be for all teachers who have hit the wall, who question their own effectiveness, who no longer remember the passion that brought them to the classroom in the first place. Come to the David Kaunda High School [in Lusaka] for a few days—it’s a working vacation, a teacher rejuvenation program.
~Phu, Teacher, Cardozo High School, Washington, DC
The Fellows Program
As part of the Fellows program, teachers develop a unique relationship with students as they work throughout the school year to develop social entrepreneurial skills and develop their own ventures to create social change in their communities. Teachers mentor, guide, and support students in identifying a social issue that ties to their school’s goals and mission, and helps them create a feasible and sustainable action plan to address those issues.
