Costa Rica
EF Global Student Leaders Summit
Last week, in celebration of Earth Day; students, teachers, and administrators from schools across the United States and Canada journeyed to Costa Rica for EF’s inaugural Global Student Leaders Summit. Together with their teachers, students spent the week traveling on one of five immersive EF tours, exploring Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity and learning firsthand about Read more…
EF’s Service Learning Innovations
There is a lot of discussion these days about creating an interconnected, globally competent generation, so it’s no surprise that the service learning movement is burgeoning. Faced with a variety of interactive and immersive experiences, discerning travelers wonder what service learning is, exactly, and why so many diverse programs are popping up all over the Read more…
Costa Rica 2013 – Apply Now! EF Global Citizen Scholarship
**DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 15TH!** Do your students want to join us in Costa Rica this April? The 2013 EF Global Citizen Scholarship Contest is off and running, and that’s big news for your students. Suddenly, an eight-day Costa Rican adventure needs to be filled with environmentally minded high school students. Pretty exciting, Read more…
EF’s Global Student Leaders Summit in Costa Rica
Did you know that Costa Rica is just half the size of Kentucky and yet home to 5% of the world’s biodiversity? You and your students are invited to join us in this land of lush rainforests, spectacular waterfalls and towering volcanoes this April for our inaugural Global Student Leaders Summit, an innovative series of Read more…
EF Global Citizen Scholarship – Berlin Experience
In July 2012, 20 students from across the United States set out on a journey to Berlin, Germany to explore their identities as Global Citizens. Over the course of ten days, these EF Global Citizen Scholarship recipients explored Berlin in-depth, engaged in the local historical and political dialogue, and even played baseball with local German Read more…
5 More Reasons to be a Group Leader
Two weeks ago I began my list of reasons why I became a group leader and why I think you should too! I hope these points inspire you to look into leading your students on an educational tour and showing them the world. 6. Builds Life Long Relationships Around the Globe Every time I’ve traveled, Read more…
Traveling Abroad with Students? The Benefits of Longer Tours
When it comes to planning student travel, Group Leaders have many things to take into consideration. After choosing a travel company, such as the industry leader EF Educational Tours, the most obvious of these considerations is the destination. Will it be a domestic or international tour? Which country or countries will be visited? Other factors Read more…
8 Traveling Regrets – Lessons Learned from Student Trips
My previous series of blogs focused on highlights of our 2011 trip to Costa Rica. Like the other 7 trips I’ve led in the past 11 years, this one was a great experience and a huge success. Some of the students that traveled with me last year are now seniors while the rest have gone Read more…
A Travel Interview with Pam Farmer
Once again I have been able to get someone in the EF family to take on the Independent newspaper’s travel survey. Pam Farmer is a Spanish teacher and Group Leader as well as a Global Education Ambassador. She started leading groups with EF in 1982 (that’s right, Eighty-Two!) and has travelled almost every year since. Read more…
Costa Rica: Touch of the Tropics EF Tour Highlights – Part 4
Over the past couple of weeks, I have shared with you the major highlights on the Touch of the Tropics tour to Costa Rica from myself and my students who traveled with me. If you missed them, you can read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. To this day, my students and I still Read more…
