Jan 19, 2007

GCISD educator selected to participate in Transatlantic Outreach Program

Grapevine High School social studies teacher, Margaret Telford, has been selected as one of 80 individuals to travel to Germany this summer as a member of one of the Transatlantic Outreach Program’s (TOP) study/travel tours sponsored by a public-private partnership initiative between the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Goethe-Institut, Deutsche Bank, and the Robert Bosch Foundation.

The program aims to enhance the quality of classroom teaching about Germany today by developing and disseminating teaching materials about modern Germany for K-12 social studies educators and social studies methods for professors at the university level and by organizing study/travel tours to Germany.

Many social studies educators have a desire to include the study of contemporary Germany in the school curriculum to foster global understanding from an international perspective. The Transatlantic Outreach Program satisfies this desire by:

• providing up-to-date, U.S. educator-designed, instructional kits about modern Germany for K-12 US and Canadian social studies educators;
• promoting in-service teacher training; and
• offering all-expense-paid study/travel tours to Germany for social studies educators.

The participants of the study tours are expected to contribute lesson plans to the program and to offer in-service training to other educators about teaching modern Germany.