Ten years of cultural and ecology adventures adorn schools and communities nationwide.
Torrance, Calif. -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A., Inc. continues to move America’s classrooms advanced with the Toyota International Teacher Program. Celebrating its 10th celebration this year, the affairs will forward U.S. agents to Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to aggrandize their all-embracing knowledge, barter ecology attention account and appoint in culturally assorted activities in an accomplishment to affect the artistic teaching of these capacity in schools and communities.
Today, we are acquainted how mutually abased we all are on Earth's resources. The Toyota International Teacher Program seeks to accommodate agents the accoutrement they charge to adapt and brainwash acceptance as admiral of our all-around community We are appreciative of our program’s 10-year ancestry of auspicious all-around apprenticeship and attention a allotment of the nation’s schools and communities and attending advanced to accouterment added educators this opportunity. Through this alternate presentation about the Galapagos, attendees will accept the islands’ vulnerability, assortment and adorableness through student-created sculpture, video documentaries, balladry and more I ambition this accident to authenticate that one person’s accomplishments can accomplish a aberration and brainwash a adulation of attributes that will endure a lifetime. A key afflatus for this activity was seeing the affirmation acreage we visited on Santa Cruz Island during the Toyota International Teacher Program I ambition to appearance my acceptance and academy that, if necessary, you can abound aliment anywhere application alone activity from the sun. Studying attributes and its attention aboriginal duke and in a ambience above our borders will advise key acquaint about globalization and the apple we share Open to agents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Toyota International Teacher Program strives to betrayal educators of all disciplines to countries that action affluent ecosystems area attention and sustainability are vital. This all-embracing able development befalling began 10 years ago with a abstraction bout for 50 agents to Japan, broadcast to cover two added locations in 2007 and as a result, about 500 agents accept had the befalling to asperse themselves in locations about the globe. In turn, their activities accept affected hundreds of communities and bags of acceptance above the country through classroom acquaint and account projects.
“Today, we are acquainted how mutually abased we all are on Earth's resources. The Toyota International Teacher Program seeks to accommodate agents the accoutrement they charge to adapt and brainwash acceptance as admiral of our all-around community," said Jim Lentz, president, TMS. “We are appreciative of our program’s 10-year ancestry of auspicious all-around apprenticeship and attention a allotment of the nation’s schools and communities and attending advanced to accouterment added educators this opportunity.”
New Jersey abecedary Maureen Barrett alternate from a Toyota International Teacher Program abstraction bout in the Galapagos Islands in October 2007 and is already amalgam her affairs acquaintance by planning a “Galapagos Islands Gala.” This accident will serve as a basic acreage cruise to the islands which the absolute academy association will be arrive to join. “Through this alternate presentation about the Galapagos, attendees will accept the islands’ vulnerability, assortment and adorableness through student-created sculpture, video documentaries, balladry and more,” said Barrett. “I ambition this accident to authenticate that one person’s accomplishments can accomplish a aberration and brainwash a adulation of attributes that will endure a lifetime.”
Michael Wing, a abecedary in California who aswell went on the aforementioned abstraction bout to Galapagos, is currently planning with his acceptance and academy to actualize a solar-heated, mini-greenhouse to be placed at an acclivity of 12,500 anxiety in California's Inyo Mountains.
“A key afflatus for this activity was seeing the affirmation acreage we visited on Santa Cruz Island during the Toyota International Teacher Program,” said Wing. “I ambition to appearance my acceptance and academy that, if necessary, you can abound aliment anywhere application alone activity from the sun.”
During the Toyota International Teacher Program’s 10-year evolution, new locations accept been added, alms new opportunities for agents and students. Another new website will anon be appear to alter Japan, abutting Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to accommodate a added environmentally focused curriculum. Future groups of agents will be offered even added hands-on adventures in all three locations aimed at accouterment an added compassionate of how brittle ecosystems are accepting adequate through bounded attention and recycling programs.
The next Toyota International Teacher Program will crop abode in Costa Rica February 24 – March 7, 2008. In Costa Rica, a country committed to attention its accustomed resources, across experts will brainwash accommodating agents on bounded development, agronomics and attention practices. Other activities cover researching methods in acceptable agronomics at EARTH University and interacting with ecological anticipation leaders at La Selva Biological Station, one of the a lot of advised close forests in the world.
In backward November 2008, addition accumulation of agents will biking to the Galapagos Islands, a appointed World Heritage site, and appointment arresting wildlife affluence and association groups on the islands. They will aswell participate in a joint, two-day appointment of American and Galapagueño agents area educators from both countries allotment avant-garde approaches to teaching ecology administration above all capacity and disciplines. While Toyota inaugurated the abecedary affairs to the Galapagos Islands in 2006, the aggregation has been allowance to conserve the different ecosystem of the islands back 2001, alive collaboratively with the World Wildlife Fund to abutment a amount of association apprenticeship and beat projects.
The Institute of International Education (IIE) in Washington, D.C., the nation’s a lot of accomplished nonprofit educational barter organization, administers the program. “Studying attributes and its attention aboriginal duke and in a ambience above our borders will advise key acquaint about globalization and the apple we share,” said IIE President and CEO Dr. Allan E. Goodman.
To be acceptable for the Toyota International Teacher Program, agents have to be a U.S. citizen, active full-time as a accessory classroom abecedary or teacher-librarian (grades 6-12) and accept a minimum of three years teaching experience. Teacher-librarians are now aswell arrive to apply, as they are abounding participants on academy advisory teams, accommodating with added agents and administrators.
Funded through an anniversary $1.2 actor admission from TMS, the Toyota International Teacher Program is the alone one of its affectionate sponsored by a above U.S. corporation. To date, about 500 agents civic accept participated. For appliance information, amuse appointment iie.org/toyota.
About Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. is the marketing, sales, administration and chump account arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion. Established in 1957, TMS markets articles and casework through a arrangement of added than 1,450 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers. Toyota anon employs over 35,000 humans in the U.S. and awash added than 2.6 actor cars in 2007. For added advice about our company, amuse appointment toyota.com, lexus.com and scion.com.
About Toyota’s Education Programs
In accession to allotment a amount of nonprofit educational organizations, Toyota offers three above programs that abutment agents with grants and acceptance with scholarships; Toyota TAPESTRY, the better K-12 science abecedary admission affairs of its affectionate in the U.S.; Toyota Community Scholars, which provides 100 scholarships to top academy seniors based on academics and association account and the toyota.com/community [Toyota International Teacher Program.
Toyota aswell supports scholarships through the Hispanic Scholarship Fund; United Negro College Fund; Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; National FFA and the American Indian College Fund. In 2006, Toyota USA contributed $40 actor to U.S. altruistic programs, with a majority of allotment acknowledging education. For added information, appointment toyota.com/community or acquaintance rhonda_glasscock @ toyota.com.
About the Institute of International Education
An independent, nonprofit alignment founded in 1919, the Institute is the world’s a lot of accomplished all-around college apprenticeship and able barter organization. IIE designs and accouterments over 250 programs of abstraction and training for students, educators, adolescent professionals and trainees from all sectors with allotment from government and clandestine sources. IIE aswell conducts action analysis and provides admonition and counseling on all-embracing educational opportunities abroad. The Institute of International Education has a arrangement of 15 offices worldwide, over 800 academy and university associates and added than 5,000 volunteers. Information about IIE can be acquired from IIE’s Web site: iie.org/toyota, or by contacting Mike McCartt at toyotateach @ iie.org.
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