Globe Schools
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program (http://globe.fsl.noaa.gov/) is a worldwide network of students, teachers and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment and better prepare graduates for the changing environ-ment of the 21 st century. As students from 7,000 schools in 80 countries make environmental observations and report their data via the Internet to the GLOBE Student Data Archive, scientists around the world use the data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Global images based on student data are displayed on the World Wide Web, enabling visitors everywhere to visualize the student observations. SCIV has taken a lead in mustering private sector support for the involvement of Egyptian schools in the GLOBE program.

A Children's Television Workshop executive addresses SCIV (click to enlarge ~ 23K)

Master Teachers
A Master Teacher Exchange Program (MTEP) is underway to build a corps of exemplary Egyptian teachers. In the initial pilot stage, U.S. elementary school professors will visit Egypt to familiarize themselves with local conditions and then help design and deliver workshops on child-centered instructional methodolo-gies, materials and other relevant topics. After completing a follow-up U.S.-based study tour, focused on both child-centered learning practices and methods for involving parents in schools, Egyptian teachers and supervisors will return to Egypt to train other Egyptian educators in selected primary schools, thereby developing centers of innovation with the potential to transform larger segments of the overall Egyptian educational system.