Teacher Grants: Purposeful Wanderlust
Browse through these links to find funded or subsidized professional development opportunities that will take you around the globe!
http://www.earthwatch.org/aboutus/education/edopp/edfelfund/ "As an Earthwatch Educator Fellow you'll receive funding to join one of our Earthwatch expeditions worldwide. If selected, you'll join a team of other Educator Fellows and/or volunteers and work alongside leading environmental scientists, actively supporting their work, learning field research methods, and helping conserve threatened natural and cultural resources. You'll also be asked to share your experiences through developing lessons and giving presentations on your experience, and by attending events designed to spread the word to other educators and volunteers."
http://www.fundforteachers.org/ "Fund for Teachers enriches the personal and professional growth of teachers by recognizing and supporting them as they identify and pursue opportunities around the globe that will have the greatest impact on their practice, the academic lives of their students and on their school communities." Develop your own educational itinerary or borrow one from another organization (like GEEO) and the Fund for Teachers will help cover costs.
$ http://www.geeo.org/ Discount summer travel tours for educators. GEEO is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad.
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html "The program provides short-term study and travel seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities for the purpose of improving their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. Support is generally made available through interagency agreements. The Department of Education transfers funds through the State Department to Fulbright commissions in various countries to pay the costs associated with administering seminars. This partnership allows the program to use the services and expertise of binational organizations to plan and conduct seminars for U.S. educators."
http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Toyota-International-Teacher-Program "The Toyota International Teacher Program offers fully-funded, international, professional development opportunities for U.S. educators. Funded by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., the program aims to advance environmental stewardship and global connectedness in U.S. schools and communities through creative, interdisciplinary, and solution-based teaching methods."
http://www.esuus.org/programs_British_Universities_Summer_Program.htm "Since 1957, the English-Speaking Union of the United States, through the generosity of participating Branches, has offered fellowships for talented teachers to study over the summer in the U.K."
http://www.americancouncils.org/educationalSeminars.php "The Educational Seminars Program offers Department of State funded grants for U.S. school teachers and administrators. Exchanges are short term, taking place during the summer, and focus on sharing of best practices and professional development. Current programs are administered with Argentina, Brazil, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, Thailand and Uruguay."
http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies/fellowships/ "This fellowship program provides a unique and unparalleled learning experience with extensive travel within Korea. The costs of round-trip international airfare, accommodations, meals, and program fees will be provided courtesy of the generous financial support of the Korea Foundation. Social studies professionals, including middle school and high school classroom teachers, administrators, and professors or instructors in schools of education are invited to apply."
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/top/txl/enindex.htm "Experience is what the Transatlantic Outreach Program is all about. Since 2001, TOP has sought to find the best and most qualified Social Studies educators and give them the opportunity to experience Modern Germany in the most dramatic way possible: in person. From Berlin to Frankfurt, from Stuttgart to Munich, from Hamburg to Kiel, from Dresden to Schwerin, and from Weimar to Leipzig, each corner of Germany is sampled through sight, sound, touch, and taste! These all-expense-paid study tours are two weeks in length and take place during the summer."
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.6135283/ "Heifer International will offer Study Tours for Educators, week-long trips designed for K-12 educators who are interested in learning in-depth about Heifer's approach to sustainable development, as well as root causes of hunger and poverty in the country. Participants will learn about these issues in a series of workshops at the beginning of the trip, and then visit with the project partners in their homes or communities to find out more about their lives, their hopes and dreams, and- most importantly- their work with Heifer to create a better future. Participation in these special trips is by application. If selected to join the trip, participants are eligible to receive a grant from Heifer. The grant covers international air transportation from a selected departure city, domestic land transportation, accommodations and meals, and resource materials for teachers, administrators and other educators."